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MR. JAMES S. JENKINS'S HOME NEAR TO NATURE AT SHIPPAN. 



nient that the yield of Farmer Scofield's 

 potato farm controlled the price of po- 

 tatoes in New York City. Farmer Sco- 

 field spared Moses Roger's favorite or- 

 chard, and to this day the gnarled and 

 twisted trees tell of Moses Roger's love 

 for apples and perhaps for cider. 



Such is the white man's histc — of 

 the land now known as Shippan Point 

 which, in recent years, has becii uou^nt 

 from Moses Roger's heirs and been di- 

 vided into fine estates. A number of 

 Stamford people, about twenty-five in 

 all, and fifteen others from other nlaces 



MR. WALTER E. HOUGHTON'S HOME NEAR TO NATURE AT SHIPPAN. 



