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Block Island apron, into which he threw gold and jewels until it was full. After her husband Joshua Raymond died, Mercy moved with her family to what would become the Raymond-Bradford Homestead in northern New London, Connecticut (later Montville) where she bought much land. The Raymond family was thus said to have been "enriched by the apron". Mercy Sands died at Lyme in 1741. Block Island was incorporated by the Rhode Island general assembly in 1672, and the island government adopted the name "New Shoreham." During the War of 1812, the island was briefly occupied by the British Navy under the command