State Republicans met at an informal gathering in Stony Creek

1. Between 200 and 250 people attended.
2. A pavilion was set up and decorated with flags. Seating here as sufficient for approximately 100 people.
3. A second table was set up in a grove of trees near the hotel.

Among the attendees were

• Joseph Hawley
• Marshall Jewell
• Linus Plimpton

1. Members of the Republican Party from Hartford and New Haven held a conference at which they decided to organize a “pleasant conference at some seaside place, and pass a day in social converse and talk politics if they chose.”
2. Invitations to this event were sent out, “extending a general invitation to all republicans to be present”.

1. “Many Connecticut people are familiar with Stony Creek harbor; with the palatable oysters from the productive beds of the coast thereabouts; with the altogether pleasant outlook from the shore when the tides are high and give character and beauty to the island settings of the bay.”
2. “There was no particular party work formerly discussed, but so far as reports were given they were of an encouraging character. Altogether the meeting was a pleasurable one, and next year if it is repeated the attendance will be very much larger.”

John Turner Wait was a member of the US House of Representatives.

Unattributed.  “At Stony Creek,” Hartford Daily Courant, September 21, 1877, page 2.