05/24/2026
35 Middle Street, LEVI JENNEY II HOUSE (before 1800) JOSEPH CEUNEY HOUSE (1820) (Mrs Taylor 1868?) This home was built before 1800 by Levi Jenney II as his home. Jenney was a very prominent man in the days of early Fairhaven. (His father, also Levi Jenney, was a seafarer and commander of ships, who had served as a private in Nathaniel Pope’s company.) Levi, the son, in partnership with Joseph Tripp, was a ships’ agent and operator of a general merchandise store on the corner of Middle and Washington streets. With Joseph Bates, he was a proprietor of the New Bedford Academy, a private school built on Main Street in 1798. Levi Jenney was Fairhaven’s first Town Clerk, from 1812 to 1817, and the town records were kept in his office on Union Wharf. The Great Gale of 1815 washed the building and the records away. Consequently we have very few official records of our first three years as a town. Jenney became a Selectman of the town in 1832-33. In 1866, this became the home of Tucker Damon, Jr., who also was a Town Clerk between 1855 and 1875. He was a partner with Andrew M. Swift in Swift & Damon Co., who owned the Swift Block. Bristol Deeds Bk 10 pg 32. (1978 Joseph Goupil)
