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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.

For the Old Greenwich family, the Tod's Point walker, the reader of local history.

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.

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.

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.


QUICK FACTS — OLD GREENWICH CT CRYSTAL ORNAMENT — 1640 BOAT

Town: Old Greenwich, Connecticut

Founded: 1640

Known for: Where Greenwich began (1640); Tod’s Point / Greenwich Point; the c.1645 Feake-Ferris House; Binney Park

Art: 1640 Boat, original Merlin Classics engraving

Blank: 3-inch (76 mm) round clear crystal glass ornament, faceted gem-cut edge

Print: white-backed for contrast; red ribbon hanger

Packaging: white or gold gift box, chosen at checkout

Made to order in the USA



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Why was Old Greenwich once called Sound Beach? Because for fifty-nine years, it was. When the railroad put a station here in 1872, the village took the name of its shoreline and became "Sound Beach" — a summer-resort brand for a summer-resort age. It kept the name until 1931, when the village asked for its history back and was rechristened Old Greenwich, a plain statement of fact: this was the oldest part of the town, the founding ground everything else grew from. Three names in three centuries — the Old Town, Sound Beach, Old Greenwich — and all three describe the same few streets between the brooks and the Sound.

In July 1640, Robert Feake, Daniel Patrick, and Elizabeth Fones Feake purchased the shore between the Asamuck and Tatomuck brooks — the founding of Greenwich, here.

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