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Groton’s Congregational United First Church of Christ sits quietly on Monument Street, a very short walk from the gates of Fort Griswold. It exudes a peaceful countenance that, for 241 years, seems t.
I always assumed that Colonel William and Anne Ledyard’s family plot in Groton’s Colonel Ledyard Cemetery contained their entire family, kept cozily together in death and honor.
There are 10 stones th.
The seven children left fatherless when Colonel William Ledyard was murdered upon surrendering his sword to the British on Fort Griswold in 1781 had been