Front:
When RHODE ISLAND.
by her legislation
1944 to 1850.
REPUDIATED
her REVOLUTIONARY Delt
Dr. RICHMOND
removed from that STATE
To this BOROUGH
and selected this
as his Family Burial Places
willing that the remains
of himself and family
hould he disgraced by being
a part of
The common earth of a
REPEDIATING ETATE.
RICHMOND.
ams Haynes
Monument to Dr. John W. Richmond, Stonington, Conn.
Back:
PUBLISHED BY THE STONINGTON TERCENTENARY COMMITTEE, INC.,
STONINGTON, CONN.
Monument to Dr. John W. Richmond (1775-1857)
of Rhode Island in small private cemetery, North
Road, Stonington, Conn., who bought the land
and left a small fund for its maintenance as he
was "unwilling that the remains of himself and
his family should be disgraced by being a part
of the common earth of a repudiating state"
meaning Rhode Island and the repudiation of her
war debts.
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