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Exact Mapp of New England and New York, London, 1702, from Cotton Mather's Magnalia Christi Americana, 1702. Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection, Map Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations

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A Connecticut settler and his family. Reprinted from The Connecticut Colony, Johanna Johnston. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1969.

25

Records of the Colony and Plantation of New Haven from 1638 to 1649, page 122

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New Haven in 1641

51

Map of the early settlement of Stamford, Connecticut, by permission of Jeanne Majdalany

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View of Broad Street, Wall Street and Federal Hall. [watercolor] 1797. John Joseph Holland. I.N. Phelps Stokes Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations

63

Diplomatic Reception Room, the White House, Washington, D.C., by permission of the White House Collection, copyright White House Historical Association

64

Cane Acres Dining Room, a period room in the Brooklyn Museaum of Art, by permission of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York

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Entrance Hallway, Florence Griswold Museum, Effingham Embree (1759-1817) Tall Case Clock, c. 1790, Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, Connecticut

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The author, her husband, and the Effingham Embree tall case clock that inspired this book

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Effingham Embree bracket clock, © 2000 Sotheby's, Inc.

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Pearsall and Embree tall case clock, Winterthur Museum, by permission of the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, Delaware

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Boscobel Restorations, Inc., by permission of the executive director, Boscobel Restorations, Inc., Garrison, New York

73

Henry Ford Museum, from the Collections of the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, Dearborn, Michigan

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The Executive Mansion, Commonwealth of Virginia, by permission of the Executive Mansion, Commonwealth of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia

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A New and Accurate Plan of the City of New York, 1797. John Roberts after Benjamin Taylor. I.N. Phelps Stokes Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations

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Museum of the City of New York. Silver cased Pocket Watch. Maker: Effingham Embree, New York. Case: London, 1792. Watch diameter, 2"; Case diameter, 2¼." Museum of the City of New York. Gift of Mrs. Howard Thayer Kingsbury. Photo: Helga Photo Studio

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The New-York Historical Society, for permission to quote from the Duane Papers Vol. 1, #108

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New-York Directory, 1789, pages 120-121, negative number 74695, from the collection of the New-York Historical Society

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New-York Register, 1791, page 51, negative number 74748, from the collection of the New-York Historical Society

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The New-York Historical Society, for permission to quote from Misc. MSS Embree