His favorite place to live and die

Oliver Ellsworth house, in Windsor, Conn.

I  have visited several countries, and I like my own the best. I have been in all the States of the Union, and Connecticut is the best State; Windsor is the pleasantest town in the State of Connecticut and I have the pleasantest place in Windsor. I am content, perfectly content, to die on the banks of the Connecticut.

-- Oliver Ellsworth (1745-1807), the third chief justice of the United States