On February 21, 1720/1, there was a report of Ephraim Ware, Thomas Metcalf and Robert Fuller, a Committee,'”to vew and Lay out a road from ye Road pafing by ye houfe of Ephraim ware’ ‘we have Laid it out untill it Coms unto y North west Corner of michells metCalfs medow & by the weft End of Sd metCalf medows throw Jonah Kingsbery Land’ ‘a littell pond on ye Eaft Side’ ‘over a brook to Sd ffullers Houfe frame Eaft and upon Sd ffullers Land in part and part in ye Land of ye Hirf of Joseph Danel’ ‘& So into ye Road ye leads from y meetting houfe to Robert ffuller Dewelling Houfe’; this is Brookside Road and a part of Wellesley Avenue. Probably Ephraim Ware then lived in the old house south of Longfellow’s Pond. Within twenty-five years this ancient homestead of the Wares showed its age to the passer by, and Miss Emma F. Ware of Milton had one photograph taken of it, which photograph cannot now be found, nor can the negative. This estate is owned by Mr. Sheridan, who has made extensive additions to the house. Formerly the main roof sloped to within a few feet of the ground at the rear, and there were porches on the east end and at the back.

On September 21, 1721, Captain Cook, John Smith, John Rice and Josiah Kingsbery were chosen to arrange with Henry Pratt and William Chub as to some land wanted by the Town of Weston for a highway. On October 12, 1722, the selectmen appointed Josiah Kingsbery, John Smith and Ephraim Ware, Sr., ‘to Vew and Mark out Rode from Rose mery meedow dam to the Houfe of Henry Allden’; this they did on the 17th, and also laid out a road from Allden’s to Ephraim Ware’s.”

Reference Data:

History of Needham, Massachusetts,1711-1911, In cluding West Needham, by George Kuhn Clarke, 1912, pages 83-4