Bride Brooke
A.D. 1664 - 1647"It fell out the first winter of our settling there that Jonathan Rudd being to be maried at Saybrooke there falling out at yt tyme a great snow the magistrate intended to goe downe thither was hindered by the depth of yt snow where upon they desired me to assist them there in yt businesse and it was agreed they should come to yt place wch is now called Bride Brooke and accordingly I mett them there at the tyme appointed *** and there those persons were then maried as being a place wth in ye bounds of yt authority whereby I then acted *** and at that tyme 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 magistrateat Pequot, now New London, and Bride Brook was the accepted boundary between his jurisdiction and the Saybrook Colony.
This memorial was placed here by
Descendants of Lieutenant Jonathan Rudd
1925

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