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Mac's Harbor at Stratford, Connecticut


The traditional landing place of Rev. Adam Blakeman and his followers, who established the town in 1639

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Traditional Landing Place of
STRATFORD'S FIRST SETTLERS
in the spring of 1639
under leadership of the
REV. ADAM BLAKEMAN
On the right, at the inner end
of the barbor, stood the
FIRST MEETING HOUSE
and burial ground, and across
the horbor at the stone embankment
was erected the first TIDE MILL
in this the village of CUPHEAG,
in 1643 renamed STRATFORD
after Stratford-upon-Avon. England
There are differing accounts of the founding of Stratford. It is clear that at least 16 and possibly as many as 35 families followed Rev. Adam Blakeman to America and landed in Connecticut, almost certainly in 1638. It is not clear whether they actually landed at what later became known as Mac's Harbor, or they landed at some nearby port and traveled overland to the site. In any case, in 1639, Blakeman and his followers came to an area known as the Pequonnocke Plantation, which had been sparsely settled no earlier than 1636 by William Beardsley, among others. When Blakeman's flock arrived, they and some of the neighboring settlers established the town of Cuphead (whose name was derived from an Indian term). The town council chose the name Stratford in 1643.




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