Bride Brooke

Bride Brooke A.D. 1664 – 1647 "It fell out the first winter of our settling there that Jonathan Rudd being to be married at Say brook there falling out at yet time a great snow the magistrate intended to go down thither was hindered by the depth of yet snow where upon they desired me to assist them there in yet business and it was agreed they should come to yet place which is now called Bride Brooke and accordingly I met them there at the time appointed and there those persons were then married as being a place with in ye bounds of yet authority whereby I then acted and at that time that place had the denomination of Bride Brooke." Thus, many years later did John Winthrop the Younger, Governor of Connecticut refer to the marriage solemnized near this spot, during that 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 Say brook Colony. This memorial was placed here by Descendants of Lieutenant Jonathan Rudd 1925