Lieutenant Moses Case House

The house was built in early 1747/8, when Moses Case married Mary Hutchinson and the new couple moved to land that Mary had received from her father Colonel Elijah Hutchinson (1698-1754).  The Cases were active in their church and Moses was also active in the Southold Militia, where he eventually rose to the rank of Lieutenant. When the American Revolution broke out, Case signed the Association in Suffolk County and became a captain in the Revolutionary War forces. However the family never fled to Connecticut with the rest of the inhabitants of the Town, preferring to remain at their farm, although the area was occupied by British forces. The couple raised seven children and had between one and four enslaved people in their household over the years.

After Case died in 1814, the house and farm were sold to a series of owners. The King family purchased the farm in 1891 and kept it until the 1960s. William B. Smith then purchased and moved the structure from the Main Road in Peconic to the North Road (Route 48) in Southold. It was used first as an office then later as a store. In 2019, the land was purchased for redevelopment, and the house was in danger of demolition. The Peconic Land Trust, stepped up, saved and moved the house to its current location.  The building is entering a new phase in its life, and returning to its original mission of being a farmhouse as part of Farms for the Future Initiative program, run by the Trust.  

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