Notes:
This painting and Canal Farm No. 1 were framed as a set and given by Hough to his sister and brother in law Joe and Anna Butterworth Mott of Kenvil. They are probably the farms of Anna’s father Hudson J. Butterworth and her uncle Whitfield H. Butterworth along the Canal on the Berkshire Valley Rd. The two farms were an inheritance from their mother Margaret Baker Butterworth, daughter of Jeremiah Baker who owned extensive properties in Dover as well as these two farms along the Canal in Berkshire Valley. Baker also owned a gristmill on the Canal at Plane 4 East. That site was known as Baker’s Mills.
The Butterworth farms straddled the Canal. Joe and Anna’s daughter Evelyn Mott Langdon talked of her grandfather Hudson Butterworth driving the cows daily from the barn on one side of the Canal to their pasture across the bridge on the other side of the Canal and driving them back in the evening.
Alternatively, it is possible that one of the paintings is of the Corwin farm on the Canal in Berkshire Valley where Hough’s nephew Ralph Mott worked as a teen ager or of the farm of Anna’s maternal grandfather Jacob Ike on Dell Ave, Kenvil, which was also along or near the Canal.
