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evidence: The Amos Palmer House ; is a historic Georgian style home located on Main Street in Stonington Borough , Connecticut .. Georgian style. Georgian style. Stonington Borough. Stonington ( borough ), Connecticut. Connecticut. Connecticut. The house was built by Captain Amos Palmer in 1787 to replace his former home on the lot which burned after a neighbors ' barn caught fire .. James Hammond Trumbull -LRB- 1821-1897 -RRB- , a Connecticut state archivist , mentioned the fire which occurred on May 24 , 1789 , in his journal  :. Connecticut. Connecticut. A barn full of hay belonging to Esq. .. Nathaniel Miner -LSB- 1732-1815 -RSB- , took fire , and communicated to a store & dwelling house belonging to Capt. Amos Palmer which were both consumed , with a quantity of West Indian goods , two or three hundred bushels of Indian corn & a quantity of household furniture .. Capt. Palmer 's loss is about -LSB- pounds sterling -RSB- 1000 .. Between August 9-August 12 , 1814 during the War of 1812 the house was amongst 40 homes in Stonington hit with cannon fire during an attack by four British ships , HMS Ramillies , HMS Pactolus , HMS Dispatch , and HMS Terror , under the command of Sir Thomas Hardy .. War of 1812. War of 1812. Thomas Hardy. Sir Thomas Hardy, 1st Baronet. Amos Palmer was reputed to have taken a cannonball which hit his house to the American gun battery to fire back at the British .