 The house was built c. 1770, on land that probably belonged at one point to the Allyn family.Mark Stoddard, descended from one of Ledyard's early settlers, married into the Allyn family, another prominent local family, in 1768.Stoddard served in the American Revolutionary War, and one of his grandsons served in the American Civil War, as master of the USS "Kearsarge" during its defeat of the CSS "Alabama".