Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast

by Samuel Adams Drake

and in the 55th year of the Independence of the U. S. A.,

In Memory of the Brave Patriots

who fell in the massacre of Fort Griswold, near this spot,

on the 6th of September, a.d. 1781,

When the British, under the command of the Traitor,

BENEDICT ARNOLD,

burnt the towns of New London and Groton, and spread

desolation and woe throughout this region.