1To Thomas Jefferson from George House, 7 April 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just received a letter from Colonel Jonathan Palmer Surveyor of Stonington, representing a petition from the inhabitants of the ports of Stonington and Pocatuck for the blending of those ports into a district— I will take the freedom of representing to you the situation of those ports—as near as I can. Stonington the East port in Connecticut is a peninsula or arm of land projecting into...