 Corwin served on the Court of Oyer and Terminer, which ultimately sent 19 people to the gallows.The house is an excellent example of 17th-century New England architecture, although historians are unsure of the date when it was built.Corwin family lore maintains that it was built in 1642, but some scholars claim that it was built in the 1620s or 1630s and that Roger Williams lived in it in the before he founded Providence Plantations.