• Old Greenwich, Connecticut Holiday Ornament — The Woman Whose Name Is on the Deed — 3-inch faceted crystal glass ornament in gold gift box
  • Old Greenwich, Connecticut Holiday Ornament — The Woman Whose Name Is on the Deed — 3-inch faceted crystal glass ornament in white gift box
  • Old Greenwich, Connecticut Holiday Ornament — The Woman Whose Name Is on the Deed — front view: a small open sailing boat approaching a wooded point, a woman standing composed at the stern in a deep red cloak and white coif, four men at the oars and tiller in period dress
  • Old Greenwich, Connecticut Holiday Ornament — The Woman Whose Name Is on the Deed — crystal ornament hanging by red ribbon, faceted beveled edge
  • Old Greenwich, Connecticut Holiday Ornament — The Woman Whose Name Is on the Deed — angled view of the gem-cut crystal edge catching light
  • Old Greenwich, Connecticut Holiday Ornament — The Woman Whose Name Is on the Deed — close-up detail of the printed art on crystal glass
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Old Greenwich Connecticut Holiday Ornament - Elizabeth Fones - 1640 Boat

Old Greenwich Connecticut Holiday Ornament - Elizabeth Fones - 1640 Boat

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Elizabeth Fones — 1640 Boat. A woman standing in the stern of an open boat in 1640, coming ashore at a wooded point to buy it. Her name is the one on the deed.

Elizabeth Fones was the niece of John Winthrop, governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and by the standards of her century a genuinely unusual figure - a woman transacting land in her own name. In 1640 the neck of land that is now Greenwich Point was purchased from the Siwanoy, and Elizabeth's name is on the agreement. The point carried her name for generations afterward: Elizabeth's Neck. The house associated with her family, the Feake-Ferris House, still stands nearby and dates to around 1645.

Colonial history is generally a list of men's names, and the exceptions are usually wives mentioned in passing. Here the exception is the principal. A town that could have told a founding story about a magistrate or a minister tells one instead about a woman in a boat, and has done so for nearly four centuries.

Printed on a three-inch faceted crystal glass round, white-backed so the wash detail stays soft and the red cloak carries across a lit room. The faceted edge catches tree light from any angle. Arrives boxed - your choice of white or gold gift box at checkout.

For the Old Greenwich family, the Tod's Point walker, the reader of local history. Merlin Classics profits support hunger relief.

3-inch (76 mm) round crystal glass ornament · faceted gem-cut edge · white-backed print for crisp contrast · red ribbon hanger · your choice of white or gold gift box, included · free U.S. shipping.

 

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Below are excerpts from our Old Greenwich history page. The Old Greenwich town logo and the full town story are available through the collection link above.

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Elizabeth Feake's "particular purchase" put the peninsula in her own name — among the earliest individual property titles held by a woman in the New World.

Through the colonial centuries this stayed a farming and fishing village on the Sound. Small wharves shipped produce and shellfish toward the New York markets; oystermen worked the coves; and during the Revolution the open water that made the village prosperous also made it vulnerable, as raiders crossed the Sound in shallow "wheelboats" between the Connecticut shore and Loyalist Long Island. It was a modest, hardworking shoreline community, shaped from the beginning by the tides, the coves, and the long peninsula reaching out into the Sound.

Why People Visit Old Greenwich

Old Greenwich offers the Connecticut Gold Coast at its most low-key — a real shore village with a beach peninsula, a pond park, and a handful of streets of shops, plus the quiet distinction of being where Greenwich began. Visitors come for Tod's Point and the Sound, the founding history, and the unhurried village pace, and stay for the beaches, the coves, and the deep-rooted New England feel. It is refined, historic, and genuinely Connecticut.

Old Greenwich Connecticut Merlin Classics retro vintage logo featuring the Connecticut oyster and Est. 1636

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