"Believed to have been built under the supervision of Henry Butler of Palmyra, NY, it was once the home of Capt. Ira Lakey, who made two voyages around the world in a whaling vessel as its Captain. After his retirement he owned this house from 1850-1860.  Later a Mr. Covey sold it to Mr. Wake Sr. who was born in Dunnington, England, Nov. 1771. He came to America on a sailing vessel with his wife and nine children in 1831, down the St. Lawrence River, landing at Pultneyville. He settled not far from Ridge Chapel, where he and his family attended church and many lie buried in the Ridge Chapel cemetery. 

Mr. Wake had two windows lowered in the living room to please his daughter, Flora (now Mrs. Jared Nasmith) who thought the room too dark.  Mr. Wake had a great variety of fruit trees on this farm, apples early and late pears and peaches." **information from Mrs. H.T. Jeffery, Historian, William Prescott Chapter, D.A.R. Newark, NY 1940