The turn of the 20th century periodical Old Eliot indicates Samuel Shorey’s house may have been built about 1714. “It is described as a one story house with three gables, and an addition at the back. It must have been the best house in that locality.” James Sullivan, in his History of Maine, 1795, says: "On the south bank of a brook which divides Kittery from Berwick, on the main county road up the river, was a fort, standing in the year 1750, called Shorey's Garrison." Jacob Shorey was a soldier in the Blue Troop of Horse in 1757, and Jacob Shorey, Jr., lived in the house in 1795