French Family Association

Famous French Architecture

The Jeremiah French Jr. House, 1775,
aka 1811 House
Manchester Village, Vermont

Updated by Mara French on 4/6/08

1811 House Bed and Breakfast, 3654 Main St., Manchester Village, VT

About 1760, Jeremiah Sr.’s son, Jeremiah Jr., and others formed a group called the Nine Partners - a land developing company. They purchased the original patents the King gave about 61 of his buddies, and subdivided and sold them. Jeremiah Jr. surveyed much of the town of Manchester, Bennington County, VT, and was the first Town Clerk. He eventually moved to Manchester. His house in Manchester actually dates back to 1775. It is on the National Registry of Historic Places. Unfortunately, Jeremiah sided with the British during the time of the American Revolution, and the new Republic of Vermont confiscated his property in 1777. Eventually the property had been purchased by Jared Munson, and for nearly a century, it remained in the hands of the Munson family. After the ownership passed from the Munson’s hands, the property’s ownership was turned over several times until 1905, when the granddaughter of Abraham Lincoln, Mary Lincoln Isham and her husband, Charles Isham, became the owners of the property. Charles died in 1919, and Mary continued to live in the house with her son, Lincoln Isham until she died in 1939.

Jeremiah French is an ancestor from FFA Chart #11. Also see Jeremiah French’s later home in Upper Canada Village, near Cornwall, Ontario, Canada, called the French-Robertson House of 1784.