A relic of the siege of Boston in 1775–76, this piece of house framing with a hole and round patch comes from a house built in 1767 by Edward Tuckerman (1740–1818), a prosperous baker and a member of the Sons of Liberty, and his wife, Elizabeth Harris (1747–1805). During the siege of Boston, the Tuckerman mansion was struck by a cannonball fired by an American gun. (Ironically, Tuckerman was a captain in the Boston Artillery Company.)