From Matthies's book: "Oliver Ellsworth (1745-1807), one of the framers of the Constitution of the United States, was sent from Connecticut to the first United States Congress. There he wrote the Judiciary Act which is the basis of our Federal judiciary system today. Ellsworth was a friend of Washington who visited him in Windsor and who made him third Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States in 1796. John Adams sent him to France in 1799 on a special mission. The Ellsworth Homestead, built about 1740 on land bought by the Ellsworths in 1665, remained in the possession of the family until 1903 when all the descendants of Oliver Ellsworth presented the property to the Connecticut Daughters of the American Revolution. The house was called Elmwood from the thirteen elms Oliver Ellsworth planted and named for the original colonies. Only two of the elms remain today."