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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 966 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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STONINGTON  , a township of New

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London county,
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Connecticut, U.S.A., in the S.E. corner of the state, on Long Island Sound . Pop. of the township (1900), 8540 (of whom 1968 were
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foreign-born), (1910), 9154, including that of the borough of Stonington, 2083 . Stonington is served by the New York, New Haven &
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Hartford railway, which has repair shops here, by an electric
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line connecting with New London, Conn., and
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Westerly, Rhode Island, and, in summer, by steamer to Watch Hill and Block Island . Its harbour is excellent, and it is a
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port of entry, but its foreign trade is unimportant . The township covers an
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area of about 45 sq. in., and includes, besides the borough of Stonington, the villages of Mystic, Old Mystic and Pawcatuck (which is closely allied with Westerly, Rhode Island) . Among the manufactures of the township are foundry and machine-
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shop products, printing presses,
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silk machinery, fertilizers, spools, thread and cotton, and woollen, silk and
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velvet goods .
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Ship
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building and fishing are among the
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industries . After its settlement in 1649 and the years immediately succeeding by
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English planters from Rehoboth in Plymouth Colony (to whom a monument was erected in 1889 in Wequetequock Burying Ground), the territory now included in Stonington
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town-ship was first a
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part of New London township, and then (1658), in accordance with a boundary decision of the
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United Colonies of New England, a part (under the name of Southertown) of Suffolk county, Massachusetts, finally reverting to Connecticut in accordance with the new boundaries fixed by the Connecticut royal charter in 1662 . In 1664 it gained representation in the General Court of Connecticut; in '665 the name was changed to Mystic, and in '666 to Stonington . In the '8th century the
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village (now the borough) of Stonington (settled in 1752)
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developed a brisk trade with Boston, Plymouth and the West Indies . Whaling and sealing were for many years important industries and a whaling captain of Stonington, Nathaniel B . Palmer, early in the 19th century, discovered Palmer
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Land in the Antarctic .

The village was the seat of military stores during the

War of Independence, and was bombarded by a
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British
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frigate in August 1775 . In August '814 another British attack, by a
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squadron under
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Commander Thomas M . Hardy, was successfully resisted . The borough of Stonington, the first in the state, was incorporated in 1801 . See R . A . Wheeler,
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History of the Town of Stonington (New London, 1900) .

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