Henry Whitfield State Museum, Guilford

Henry Whitfield State Museum, Guilford – Jerry Dougherty

Guilford, in New Haven County, is located in southern Connecticut on the Long Island Sound. Originally called Menunkatucket, the Quinnipiac sold it, along with land stretching from present day Niantic to Branford, to Puritans led by Henry Whitfield. It was settled in 1639, renamed Guilford, and admitted to New Haven Colony in 1643. One of the few shore towns to escape British attack in the Revolutionary War, Guilford citizens organized a raid on British provisions stored at Sag Harbor, Long Island. Stone quarried from Leete’s Island has been used in the building of the Statue of Liberty, the Brooklyn Bridge, and the Lighthouse at Lighthouse Point, New Haven.

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Websites

“Greater New Haven Labor History Association,” 2017. Link.
“Guilford Preservation Alliance,” 2012. Link.
Historic Guilford Connecticut. “Historic Walking Tours,” 2012. Link.

Places

“Dudley Farm Museum,” 2017. Link.
Faulkner’s Light Brigade. “Faulkner’s Island & Light House,” 2012. Link.
“Guilford Keeping Society,” 2012. Link.
Connecticut: Department of Economic & Community Development. “Henry Whitfield State Museum,” 2017. Link.
Guilford Free Library. “Historical Room,” 2012. Link.
Dorothy Whitfield Historic Society. “Hyland House Museum,” 2012. Link.
National Register of Historic Places. “Jared Eliot House,” 1985. Link.
Guilford Keeping Society. “Medad Stone Tavern Museum,” 2015. Link.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. “Stewart B. McKinney: National Wildlife Refuge,” 2016. Link.
Guilford Keeping Society. “Thomas Griswold House Museum,” 2013. Link.

Documents

H., J. “Broadside - Lamentation on Occasion of the Sickness and Mortality in East-Guilford, Anno Domini, 1751.” T. Green, 1752. Connecticut Historical Society. Link.
Connecticut State Library Digital Collections. “Guilford - WPA Architectural Survey,” 2013. Link.
“Guilford Collection.” Connecticut Digital Archive, n.d. Link.
Irvine, H. “Map of the Town of Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut from Actual Survey by H. Irvine.Village of Guilford.” Real Property. Guilford, CT: Richard Clark, 1852. Connecticut Historical Society. Link.

Books

Steiner, Bernard. A History of the Plantation of Menunkatuck and of the Original Town of Guilford, Connecticut Comprising the Present Towns of Guilford and Madison. Baltimore, MD: Bernard C. Steiner, 1897. Link.
McCain, Diana. Connecticut Coast: A Town-by-Town Illustrated History. Guilford,  CT: Globe Pequot Press, 2009.
Guilford Keeping Society. Guilford. Chicago,  IL: Arcadia, 2001.
Rockey, J. L., ed. History of New Haven County, Connecticut. Vol. 2. New York: W. W. Preston, 1892. Link.
Lambert, Edward. History of the Colony of New Haven, Before and After the Union with Connecticut. Containing a Particular Description of the Towns Which Composed That Government, Viz., New Haven, Milford, Guilford, Branford, Stamford, & Southold, L.i. with a Notice of the Towns Which Have Been Set Off from “the Original Six.” New Haven, CT: Hitchcock & Stafford, 1838. Link.
Smith, Ralph. The History of Guilford, Connecticut: From Its First Settlement in 1639. Albany, NY: J. Munsell  Printer, 1877. Link.
Griswold, Mary. Yester-Years of Guilford. Guilford,  CT: Shore Line Times Publishing Company, 1938.