These are various clipping, all type written, that have been collected as part of the house's history

On 31 Crowell Road, Sagamore Beach, written by Miss Helen J. Estia [?]

Owned and occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Harold Clark.

Built in 1690, Mrs. Clark says, the house has had only three families as owners.

The Crowell family operated as a large farm what is now woods. Crowells were grandparents of Mrs. Evelyn Coggeshall [address omitted]. She says that the parlor floor was covered with sand, with a pattern drawn in it. When the young people had guests, they had to replace the pattern before going to bed.

The Reverend Francis E. Clark bought the house in 1915. He and his wife started the Christian Endeavor in Maine and continued to develop it from Sagamore. Others of the Christian Endeavor movement bought property at Sagamore Beach with hopes of establishing an "ideal community." (Reference in Keen's history, page 139)

Excerpt from Sandwich Observer dated Dec. 15, 1891

The two old colonial mansions in the village of Sagamore - one owned and occupied by Hiram Crowell, the other owned and rented by Calvin Crowell - were long the homes and later the summer residences of two Sagamore men, Benjamin Burgess and Capt. Abner Ellis, who amassed large fortunes in the West India sugar commerce and held first rank among Boston merchants for many years. They were both grandfathers of Edward Burgess, the famous yacht designer. One of the front chambers in Capt. Ellis' house is finished wholly in solid mahogany, which he brought from the West Indies, and was doubtless the boudoir of his only daughter, Cordelia, mother of E. Burgess. It commands a lovely view of the sea with the white sailed vessels dotting its surface. Capt. Ellis died at this house. Advanced in years, but still quite vigorous, at his breakfast table, dropping the egg he held, he fell back in his chair and expired of heart disease.

9/3/80

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Excerpt from Sandwich Observer dated Mar. 22, 1892

The McDougall family have vacated the old Crowell homestead. This house is possibly, the oldest in Sagamore, as when "Grandpa" Crowell bought it in 1817 of Meltiah Tobey it was said to be nearly a hundred years old. The frame is solid now and the rooms have all the quaint and picturesque features of the homes of colonial days. Just over the hill, near Shadrach Swift's, directly facing the road that came over the hills from Sandwich town and led to the beach, (then the main road to Plymouth), stood another old house, long since gone, last owned by Levi Swift. I was born there and so felt interested, when a few days since, Mrs. Martha Perry, whose early home was close by, informed me that for a while the residence of Rev. Abraham Williams, pastor of the First church in Sandwich from 1749 to 1784. The neighbors told my mother that the front chamber used to be a minister's study. His residence was, for a time at least, the house next to the grocery store of Morse in Sandwich. If he resided here awhile, perhaps that accounts for the 12 of the seceding brethren from Scussett returning to his church during his pastorate.

9/4/90

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Obituary in The Independent, Jan. 24, 1902

Calvin Crowell

Our village of Sagamore is again called to mourn the departure of a well known and beloved citizen, Calvin Crowell, who passed away at his home here on Saturday.

Mr. Crowell had been in failing health for some years, and recently had been confined to his bed, but was able to be about the house. Arising from the dinner table on Saturday, he took a seat upon a couch and in a few moments, without sign of physical suffering, had breathed his last.

Mr. Crowell was born in the village August 24, 1824, being the youngest child of Paul and Sally (Sears) Crowell, who moved here from Dennis in 1815.

He was married in 1857 to Miss Laura A. Swift, who survived him. Of their seven children, four are living, Walter L. Crowell of Norwood, Mrs. W.R. Gibbs Jr., Mss Ada Crowell and Miss Mabelle Crowell. The sad death of their son Frank in a fire at Chicago occurred just one year ago, Mr. Crowell also leaves a brother, Hiram Crowell, who is the last survivor of the family of fifteen.

The deceased, with his brother, was extensively interested in cranberry culture and the two were the pioneers in that industry. Their large bogs at White Island were sold but a short time ago.

From a page of town records

John Ellis built the original house about 1690. It was the first house built in the village of Sagamore. It has been called the Crowell Farm since anyone can remember and still contains much of the original land. A mill was added to the main house by the Crowell family around 1902.