Jones, Enoch, House
a.k.a. Boxwood
SW of Clayton off DE 300, Clayton, DEBoxwood is a remarkably well-preserved example of a typical Delaware two-story hall-and-parlor house built during the middle years of the eighteenth century. It stands in the Manor of Frieth, a large rectangular tract on the headwaters of Duck Creek that was granted by the Penns to themselves as a private development enterprise. One of the first settlers on the manor was James Jones, a Welsh immigrant who arrived on the property around 1733. He may have built the present Boxwood house.
The first documented reference to the house is a 1792 survey of Enoch Jones' 717-acre estate, on which this house is clearly shown as the mansion house.
Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
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