William Masden's house
I was at Salt Lake last week and found a description of William Masden's home in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, where he was living during the Revolutionary War. William is the earliest-known ancestor of the Pennsylvania Masden family.
The info come from a book called "The People of Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, 1755-1798." In 1798, a tax was levied based on the number of windows in a house, hence the description.
William Masden's home (then occupied by his two youngest sons, William and Jacob, to whom he gave his farm in his 1796 will) was described as measuring 30 x 22 feet, made of logs (not wood, stone, or brick), two stories, six windows with 66 panes, and having a separate kitchen building. It was worth $400.
By comparison, the most valuable house in the township was worth $900 and made of brick (the only one in the township made of this material). It had five windows and 120 panes of glass. (Another house had 13 windows with 168 panes of glass.) Nearly all the houses in the township are log. Most houses are valued at less than $400. The largest house is 40 x 38 for 1,520 square feet. Since William's house has two stories, it could have as much as 1,320 square feet, but the second story may not have been full.