Mercy Waring (1737)

This is one of the oldest houses in Pound Ridge. It is called the Mercy Waring House because this daughter of Capt. Joseph Lockwood is the first known owner of record (an 1809 mortgage deed). The house, however, is no doubt older than 1809, as evidenced by a bake oven at the rear of the kitchen fireplace, a phenomenon dating to the early 1700s. Further evidence of an earlier date is a 1740 deed by which John Tyler sold a house, presumably this Landmark house, to Mercy's grandfather, Joseph Lockwood, and his brother, Israel. Tyler himself had purchased the dwelling house in 1737. Thus, the house likely dates to at least 1737 and may be even older. In the 1930s, the house became another Halle renovation.