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member of the township. He was called upon to serve in several important positions. He was Justice of the Peace from 1827 to 1833 and served five terms in the State legislature. He died on the old homestead in 1856. • In 1815, Nehemiah Porter, his wife, their two children, and bachelor brother Wells Porter, located on Lot 45. After residing with Nehemiah two years, Wells Porter made a settlement on Lot 15, diagonally adjacent to Lot 4. He later moved to Cleveland where he died in 1877. • In 1816, another Porter brother, Ebenezer, settled in Dover. Ebenezer and Nehemiah Porter resided in the township until they died. The Porter brothers were all sons of Joseph Porter. • On December 26, 1816, Joshua Stow deeded land to Nehemiah Hubbard in order to split up their land holdings so that each lot in the township had only one owner. On May 12, 1825, the State of Connecticut also deeded the same lots to Hubbard. • In 1826 the first sales of land to settlers began. • Joseph Porter, father of the Porter brothers above, migrated to Dover in 1826 with four of his children, Jemima, John, Leonard and Rebecca. They travelled the Erie Canal to Buffalo, thence by lake to Cleveland, and the rest of the way by stage. Mr. Porter settled on Lot 14, directly north of Lot 4. He died there in 1844 and was buried in Evergreen Cemetely. • In 1832, Nehemiah Hubbard sold the half mile square, 160 acre Lot 4 to Ebenezer Porter. • In 1845, Ebenezer Porter sold 20 acres in the northwest quadrant of Lot 4 to his brother John. In 1846, Ebenezer Porter sold the remaining 140 acres of Lot 4 to Richard H. Knight and Sidney L. Beebe together. On January 4, 1850, Richard Knight and Sidney Beebe divided the 140 acres of land between themselves. Knight retained 71.5 acres of the easterly half of Lot 4. Beebe retained 68.5 acres of the westerly half of Lot 4. After the Lot 4 split of 1850, Richard Knight began the design and construction of his new stone house. He built his house on Lot 4 of the township, sometime between 1850 and 1860, using stone from the nearby stone quarry located on Lot 4. • R. H. Knight was a trustee of Dover Township in 1856 and 1857. S. L. Beebe was a trustee of Dover Township in 1860. • R. H. Knight sold his house to S. H. Shaw sometime after 1873. In 1880 William Biddulph purchased the Knight house.