Place:Stonington, New London, Connecticut, United States
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NameStonington
Alt namesSouthertownsource: Source:Vernon, Katheryn B. Histories of My Early Ashcraft Ancestors in America, pg. 3
TypeTown
Coordinates41.3359327°N 71.9059042°W
Located inNew London, Connecticut, United States
Contained Places
Borough
Stonington ( 1600 - )
Cemetery
Denison Burying Ground
Denison Cemetery ( - 1807 )
Evergreen Cemetery
Great Plain Cemetery ( 1649 - 1807 )
Industrial Cemetery
Joanna Minor Richardson Gravesite
Joseph Denison Cemetery
Old Taugwonk Cemetery
Paul Wheeler Cemetery
Wequetequock Burial Ground
Whitehall Graveyard
Inhabited place
Mystic
North Stonington ( 1667 - 1807 )


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The town of Stonington is located in New London County, Connecticut in the state's southeastern corner. It includes the borough of Stonington, the villages of Pawcatuck, Lords Point, and Wequetequock, and the eastern halves of the villages of Mystic and Old Mystic (the other halves being in the town of Groton). The population of the town was 18,335 at the 2020 census.

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"The town of Stonington was first given the name of Southertown by the Massachusetts Court in 1659, but the name was changed to Stonington in 1666."

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