Daniel Bancroft, Jr. House (1806)

Daniel Bancroft was a Salem architect-builder who worked with Samuel McIntire. According to an article in The Essex Antiquarian, Vol. VI, no. 4 (October, 1902):

Daniel Bancroft, house-carpenter, lived first in Reading, and removed, in 1770, to Worcester, and then, in 1775, removed from Worcester to Salem, having married Hannah, daughter of Benjamin Symonds of Salem, chairmaker, Aug. 14, 1770. They were living in Salem in 1791.— Registry of deeds, and Salem town records.

The same article lists that “Daniel Bancroft, Jr., married Sally Cloutman, both of Salem, Aug. 5, 1794.” The Daniel Bancroft, Jr. House, built in 1806, is at 4 River Street in Salem. According to the plaque on the house, Daniel Bancroft, Jnr. was also a housewright.

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