Casey Farm
Stewards of the Land Over Time
For 10,000 years, humans have occupied the land on which Casey Farm now sits. The land was called Namcook by the Narragansett people, indigenous to this land. By the end of the 1650s, the land was sold and renamed “Boston Neck.” From 1658 onward, this farmland was owned and occupied by tenant and gentleman farmers until 1955 when Historic New England, then known as the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, took ownership.
These are the names of former owners and occupants of Casey Farm.
| 10,000 years before present Indigenous people, the Narragansett, called the area Namcook |
1658 Atherton Company Purchase and renamed area Boston Neck. Owner Amos Richardson |
1675-1702 Changed hands with owners named James Brown, John Payne, John Richardson, Timothy Clarke, George and Elliner Havens, and John and Mehitable Dexter |
1702 James Morey, owner, and Mary (Wilbor) Morey, the first ancestors of the Caseys. (1st generation) |
1705 Mary Wilbur (Morey) Coggeshall and Daniel Coggeshall, Sr. (2nd generation) |
| 1724 Daniel Coggeshall, Esq., owner, and Mary Wanton Coggeshall, built the farm house circa 1750 (3rd generation) |
1784 Silas Casey and Abigail Coggeshall Casey (4th generation) |
1786-7 Wanton Casey and Elizabeth Goodale Casey, son and daughter-in-law of owners |
1814 Wanton Casey, owner, and Elizabeth Goodale Casey – (5th generation.) |
1842 Thomas Goodale Casey (6th generation) |
| 1855 Thomas Lincoln Casey and Emma Weir Casey (7th generation) |
1896-1925 Thomas Lincoln Casey, Jr. (8th generation) |
1896-55 Edward Pearce Casey and Lillian Berry Casey (8th generation) |
1955-Present SPNEA, now called Historic New England |
These are people who were tenant farmers and renters of Casey Farm, unless their roles are otherwise stated.
| 1699 Cornelius Hightman | 1702 Mr. Batty |
1716 William Smith |
1724 Thomas Willett | 1771 Ackers Sisson | 1772 William Ellery |
1775-83 Mortgaged 195 ¾ acres to Benjamin Gardiner | 1782-3 William Browning | 1784 James Owens | 1785-6 Reynolds Knowles, Daniel Coggeshall, and James Owens |
| 1802-3 Henry Niles, rent of small house and farm laborer | 1804-8 Henry Carr, rent of small house and farm laborer | 1809-10 Langworthy Pierce, Henry Carr | 1811-20 Francis Carpenter and George W. Watson | 1812 James Pone, rent of small house | 1811-14 George W. Watson | 1814-21 John L. Watson |
1820 Jeremiah N. Potter | 1822-35 Vincent Gardiner | 1840-56 Benjamin Hazard |
| 1857-66 John H. Caswell | 1867-88 Thomas J. and Sarah H. Gould
daughters |
1888-c. 1919 Robert W. Watson |
1924-65 Archie Rose | 1965-67 Frederick Seymour, resident caretaker | 1968-88 Mr. and Mrs. Archie MacLaughlin, resident caretakers |
1988-92 Mary Elizabeth MacLaughlin and Casey MacLaughlin, resident caretakers |
1993-2006 Mike Hutchison and Polly Williams, resident farm managers | 2006-10 Patrick McNiff, resident farm manager | 2010-14 Ashley Cordt, resident farm manager |
2014 to present – Lindie Markovich, farm manager