Fish, Daniel
'House at Wequetequock'

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"The old Fish house at Wequetequock has a special interest for the Road Society, as Capt. Daniel Fish lived there with his wife, Sarah, who was [the] daughter of Oliver and Sarah Hilliard (sic), and neice (sic) of the one who gave the land for the cemetery at the Road. At Mr. Fish’s death, his widow became the owner by will of this house, provided she did not marry again, but if she did, the place reverted to the First Congregational Society. Mrs. Fish not being quite satisfied with the will, and having an offer of marriage from Mr. Thomas Stanton, she accepted him, and so the Road Society acquired its new possession, which it still retains, while she went to live at Mr. Stanton’s house but a short distance east of this, and after his death she soon married again, Mr. John Nichols, and lived for a time at Preston, but for some reason finally returned to Stonington, and lies buried in the cemetery near the Church at the Road. This old Fish house has sheltered many families. In 1785 Reuben Palmer, who married Zerviah Stanton of Preston, lived here, but it has now been rented for a long term of years. It is still standing [in 1930], worn brown from age and the elements, being built about 1740, a gambrel-roof, one-story house. At the center on the north and south sides, are two small lean-tos with outside windows in each. The timbers are somewhat decayed, the windows are broken or gone, and it is one of the three old houses in town, uninhabited and fast going to decay."

Grace Denison Wheeler, “Old Homes in Stonington” (publisher Mystic Standard 1930) (courtesy of Mystic Historical Society), page 175

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