Branford

[laughs] Yeah, New Haven, Connecticut.

And I was a teenager when we moved to Branford.

Mm-hmm.

And I went to Branford High.

I did have one year of Catholic high school.

One, one year was plenty of that.

Um-

So that's how I got to Saab.

Stamford had its origin in a Wethersfield quarrel when the Reverend Richard Denton, blind of one eye but not the least among the seers of Israel, departed with his flock.

Branford also was born of a Wethersfield controversy and later received accessions from Long Island.

In 1643, Milford, Guilford, and Stamford combined under the common jurisdiction of New Haven, to which Southold and Branford acceded later with a form of government copied after that of Massachusetts, though the colony was distinctly federal in character, consisting of the government of New Haven with the plantations in combination therewith.

Though there was no special reservation of town rights in the fundamental articles which defined the government, yet the towns, five in number, considered themselves free to withdraw at any time if they so desired.

We have thus reviewed the conditions under which some 40 towns grouped under five jurisdictions were founded in New England.

And finally, in 1664, the successful capture of New Netherland and the grant to the Duke of York threatened the colony with annexation from that quarter.

Rather than be joined to New York, New Haven surrendered.

One by one, the towns broke away until in December of that year only Branford, Guilford, and New Haven remained.