connecticut-built

Updated: July 14, 2025

I'd known Seth Crane, the cap'en of her, away back in old Simsbury times. He was an Avon boy; and when I sighted that vessel's name, as I was crawlin' along the quay one day, and, seein' she was Connecticut-built, boarded her, and see Seth, I was old fool enough to cry right out, I was so shaky.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 05, March, 1858