Warren, Rhode Island is an often overlooked town for tourists, making it my favorite hidden gem in the Ocean State. The town is home to a bunch of Colonial-era homes, stunning institutional buildings, and industrial sites, oh and a lot of local businesses and restaurants. This charming house was built in 1782 for Rufus Barton and his wife, Prudence Cole. Rufus Barton sold the property to Nathan Burr for $775 in 1797 and the family moved to New York. Nathan Miller Burr sold the home to William Eastabrook two years later. Captain Eastabrook/Easterbrook had just returned from an illegal* slave voyage on the “Betsey” to Africa that resulted in the enslavement of 79 Africans who were sold into slavery in Havana, and purchased this home soon after with money he earned on that voyage. The new owners have done an amazing job restoring the house and telling the full story of the ownership, a task not many want to undertake with such complex and troubling past, but it is important!