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Burr Homestead
Fairfield University, Connecticut
Historical Marker Database · Michael Herrick
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Burr Homestead was the home of Thaddeus and Eunice Dennie Burr, and here Dorothy Quincy and John Hancock, president of the Continental Congress, were married in 1775. The house was burned by the British in 1779 and rebuilt in 1790.
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