Another ancient Yale dwelling is on East Main street, that was built by Abel Yale about the year 1735. It is on the north side of the street perhaps 500 feet west of Paddock avenue. The first mention of it on the records was in 1737 when his brother Moses quit claimed to Abel all his interest in the house and farm. It stands on a part of the "town farm," which the brothers had bought in 1728 after disposing of their father's lands to the church committee. It was evidently a comfortable and substantial dwelling and it is still in such shape that it may last many years. Of course, it is considerably changed from its original condition, particularly in the interior. The old lean-to roof is one of the signs of its antiquity. The last of the Yales to own it was Jonathan who died in 1833. Orchard Guy, his brother-in-law, who owned and built the old house, three hundred feet west, about 1793, bought the Yale homestead after Jonathan's death, and in 1844 sold it to S. C. Paddock. It is now occupied by a German family who keep a grocery store in the west room of the ground floor.

Pp. 118-120.