Middlebury250
Middlebury250
Jennifer Mahr (U), Chairwoman
Jesse Langer (U), Member
Robert Mastroianni (R), Member
Linda Mucciacciaro (D), Member
Rev. Katrina Manzi (R), Member
Dr. Michael Simms (U), Member
Shannon Martin (D), Member
LéAnn Murphy Cassidy (D), Member
Thank you to the following for their assistance with the information on this Website:
LéAnn Murphy Cassidy, Ed.S., 2023 CT VFW National History and Civics Education Teacher of the Year, Region 15 History Teacher
Dr. Robert Rafford, Middlebury Town Historian and President of the Middlebury Historical Society
Robin Fenn, descendant of the original Fenn Family
The America 250 Committee
Robert Mastroianni for images
Sources:
Bronson, Henry. History of Waterbury, Connecticut (1858)
Coddington, John Insley. “The Brownson, Bronson, or Brunson Family of Earl’s Colne, Essex, England, Connecticut, and South Carolina.” The American Genealogist 152/38, pgs. 192-211.
Connecticut Digital Archive. University of Connecticut Library and Connecticut State Library, https://ctdigitalarchive.org/. Accessed 6 Jan. 2026.
Cothren, William. Volume 2 - Copy 1 History of ancient Woodbury, Connecticut: from the first Indian deed in. Waterbury, Conn., Bronson brothers, -79, 1854. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/rc01003329/resource/gdcmassbookdig.historyofancient01cothr>.
Federal Writer's Project for the State of Connecticut. Connecticut: a Guide to Its Roads, Lore, And People,. Boston: Houghton Mifflin company, 1938. as accessed on https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015001142218&seq=7
Johnston, Henry P., editor. The Record of Connecticut Men in the Military and Naval Service During the War of the Revolution, 1775–1783. Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1889.
Library of Congress. Prints & Photographs Online Catalog. Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/pictures/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.
“Middlebury – Connecticut History.” Connecticut Humanities, https://connecticuthistory.org/towns-page/middlebury/. Accessed 8 Jan. 2026.
Mitchell, Mary Hewitt, 1875-1955. History of New Haven County, Connecticut. Chicago: Pioneer Historical Pub. Co., 1930. Retrieved from https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=yul.12520714_001_00&seq=1
Pollak, Michael. “Under That Bramble, Look! It’s History.” The New York Times, 20 Aug. 2000, https://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/20/nyregion/under-that-bramble-look-it-s-history.html
Prichard, Sarah Johnson, editor; Joseph Anderson and Anna Lydia Ward, editors. The Town and City of Waterbury, Connecticut: From the Aboriginal Period to the Year Eighteen Hundred and Ninety‑Five. New Haven: The Price & Lee Company, 1896. PDF. Connecticut General Assembly – State Library Collections.
Rafford, Robert L. “Middlebury Connecticut Timeline.” Middlebury Historical Society, 2021, https://www.middleburyhistoricalsociety.org/middlebury-timeline/.
Rockey, J. L. History of New Haven County, Connecticut. N. Y.: W. W. Preston, 1892. Retrieved from https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/00770288
Van Dusen, Albert E. Connecticut: A Fully Illustrated History of the State from the Seventeenth Century to the Present. Random House, 1961.
“Waterbury in the 18th Century.” Fortune’s Story, fortunestory.org/waterburyinthe18thcentury/. Accessed 8 Feb. 2026.
“YouTube.” Declaration of Independence (Complete Audio & Text), 3 Apr. 2017, YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQT3sUmGKNg
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