Local History

This area, then know as Quanneapague, was purchased from the Pohtatuck Indians in 1705. Settled from Stratford and incorporated in 1711, Newtown was a stronghold of Tory sentiment during the early Revolutionary War. French General Rochambeau and hist troops encamped here in 1781 on their way to the siege of Yorktown, Virginia, which ended the…

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