In her 1869 novel, Oldtown Folks (1869), Harriet Beecher Stowe presents the lives of people in a old Massachusetts town, based primarily on reminiscences of real individuals by her husband, Prof. Calvin Ellis Stowe, who grew up in South Natick. One of the prominent characters in Oldtown Folks is Sam Lawson, who also appears as the narrator in another work by Stowe, Sam Lawson’s Oldtown Fireside Stories (1872). Sam Lawson was based on Sam Lawton, an actual resident of South Natick. As written in Proceedings of the reunion of the descendants of John Eliot “The Apostle to the Indians” at … Continue reading Sam Lawton House (1798)