Twenty years ago today a ceremony to dedicate the Elderslie Preserve on Peck Hill Road took place on the sunny afternoon of September 21, 2002. The mayor of the Village of Elderslie in west central Scotland was the guest of honor and spoke to a small crowd of celebrants. After the ceremony, a bagpiper lead the assembled from ‘Rose Ridge’…
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The Beecher Family in America… and Woodbridge
What do we know about the origins of the Beecher family in America, and how do the Beechers who lived in long ago days here in Woodbridge connect to the more famous members of this family? The noted Presbyterian minister and social reformer Lyman Beecher (born 1775 in New Haven, CT and died 1863 in Brooklyn, NY) is buried in…
A Civil War Story: Correspondence from a Nephew to His Aunt in the wake of the Fall of Richmond
Town Records of Woodbidge, Connecticut Civil War correspondence from the Ralph Chester Smith family papers (donated by Ann Electa Smith Cassidy) Letter to Francis Castle Bradley (wife of soldier Isaac Bradley) from her nephew Dwight A. Sperry Jordan April 4, 1865 My dear Aunt Francis, I received your letter to night and hasten to answer it. I am very sorry…
A Civil War Story: Correspondence Between a Woodbridge Brother and Sister
Town Records of Woodbidge, Connecticut Civil War correspondence from the Ralph Chester Smith family papers (donated by Ann Electa Smith Cassidy) Letter from Isaac Bradley to his sister Althea Bradley Clark
Revolution in the air of Woodbridge
As Revolution came to our quiet neck of the woods, there are some names that stand out as military leaders from our area. In October 1775 the following men are established as officers by the Connecticut General Assembly: This Assembly do establish Titus Smith to be Captain of the 10th company or trainband in the second regiment in this Colony.…
Woodbridge Men Who Fought in the Colonial Wars
What do we know about the armed conflicts that occurred in America before the Revolutionary War? Who were the men who fought and what of their families? Let’s see what we can find out… One of the best documented conflicts is the one we know of today as “the French and Indian War” — but this was actually the fourth…
Eliza Thomas
Stone Number: 013 Death date: 02/14/1860 Age 24, Daughter of Charles and Nancy
Rebecca Peck
Stone Number: 012 Death date: 06/24/1859 Age 88
Eunice Peck Clark
Stone Number: 011 Death date: 02/28/1885 Age 85, Wife of Elieona