Part of Kingston Mill District.

Barefoot Brinson of the Greenland-Brinson-Gulick House first acquired this property, adding it to his farm with a 1735 purchase. After Brinson’s death in 1746, Jacob Skillman bought it and built a “new stone dwelling house, with convenient merchants shop adjoining,” as it was advertised in 1763. That same year, it was purchased by Ezekiel Forman, a leading Presbyterian minister in the area and an early Trustee of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University). He started calling the house “New Market,” a name that didn’t stick.

In 1770, Forman sold the house to Lemuel Scudder, owner of the Aqueduct Mills to the south, where the Millstone River and Stony Brook intersect. Like the mill at Kingston, Scudder’s Mill was a social center of the early Princeton region; Scudder’s Mill Road is named for its prominence in the area.

Finally, Major John Gulick purchased the property in 1797. While he farmed a large estate that included this land, his primary business was in running the Gulick Stage Line that ran stagecoaches between New Brunswick and Trenton.

Original Sections: original embanked stone house is underneath the 19th-century frame structure

Present Use: private residence