Samuel "Fish Hook" Mulford
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Samuel "Fish Hook" Mulford
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Samuel "Fish Hook" Mulford (1644–1725) got his nickname when he went to London in 1704 to protest the tax on whale oil, which he used in farming. Warned beforehand of the sly workings of pickpockets in the great foreign metropolis, the canny and cautious Mr. Mulford lined his pockets with fishhooks to foil the would-be thieves. The old Mulford farmhouse, which overlooks the Village Green of East Hampton, is one of the oldest in the county of Suffolk. It is one of the nation's most significant, i
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