Bride Brooke

During the first winter after the settlement there, a great snow prevented the magistrate who intended to go down to Saybrooke for Jonathan Rudd's marriage, so John Winthrop the Younger was asked to assist. It was agreed that the couple should come to the place then called Bride Brooke, and he met them there at the appointed time and married them, since it lay within the bounds of the authority under which he was then acting. Many years later, Winthrop referred to this marriage as having been solemnized near this spot during the brief period when he was a Massachusetts magistrate at Pequot, now New London, and when Bride Brook was the accepted boundary between his jurisdiction and the Saybrook Colony.

East Lyme, Connecticut · United States