Salah Barnard of Deerfield, Massachusetts, was described in George Sheldon’s “History of Deerfield” as “prominent in war and peace.” He was a soldier, achieving the rank of major in the militia, and also a trader and farmer. When he was forty, he married Elizabeth Nims (1745-1827) and bought a house on Deerfield’s main street built by Nehemiah Frary in 1719. He dramatically remodeled the house, as evidenced by his account book records listing multiple purchases of building materials. In 1795, shortly before he died, he completed a tavern building attached to the house’s south side, and left it to his son, Erastus, who ran a tavern there for eight years.