Commemorative biographical record of Hartford County, Connecticut : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and of many of the early settled families . ? // , , //// / //?/. / •//,//-,, ?//, ? V. ,//////,./ COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 18a improvement. A railroad covers the ground where ic stood, and made the first attack on the namehill, skirting the base some miles, and at thesame time erasing the major part of the old rope-walk and shipyard, where for many years shipslarge and small were built and subsequentlymanned and mastered by the citizens o
Commemorative biographical record of Hartford County, Connecticut : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and of many of the early settled families . ? // , , //// / //?/. / •//,//-,, ?//, ? V. ,//////,./ COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 18a improvement. A railroad covers the ground where ic stood, and made the first attack on the namehill, skirting the base some miles, and at thesame time erasing the major part of the old rope-walk and shipyard, where for many years shipslarge and small were built and subsequentlymanned and mastered by the citizens of Stepne)and Glastonbury. Shipbuilding, the fitting- and outfitting of thesame, made for these two places lively and work-a-day times. Business of all kinds flourished be-cause of tfie maritime value of men and young men from both places followed thesea, or wanted to. and their outfits, their ships,and the cargoes they brought back furnishedraison detre for the several .stores that then clothedthe river bank at Rocky Hill (then Stepney) anddid a brisk business in sail-cloth, paints, oils, sati-nets, whets and silks, man;,, perhaps most, of allthese things, and surely ad the two
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