Bride Brook

During the first winter of settlement there, Jonathan Rudd was to be married at Saybrook, but a great snow kept the magistrate who intended to go there from traveling. John Winthrop the Younger was then asked to assist in the matter, and it was agreed that the couple should come to the place afterward called Bride Brook. He met them there at the appointed time and married them there, because it lay within the bounds of the authority under which he was then acting. Many years later, as Governor of Connecticut, he recalled that marriage near this spot from the brief period when he was a Massachusetts magistrate at Pequot, now New London, and Bride Brook was the accepted boundary between his jurisdiction and the Saybrook Colony.

East Lyme, Connecticut · United States