WEPAWAUG FARM.
Summer home of S. H. Street. Built in 1760 by Mrs. Street's great-great-grandfather, Samuel Newton, for his son Lieut. Samuel Newton, who served in the Revolutionary War. It has always remained in the Newton family, and with the exception of a few minor changes it remains the same as when built.
reader is referred to a paper by the late Rev. S. P. Marvin, published in the New Haven Historical Society Papers, Vol. 6, pp. 101-132) but the territory continued to belong to the towns of New Haven and Milford till 1784 when the town of Woodbridge was formed, embracing the present area of -Woodbridge and Bethany. The town was named after Rev. Benjamin -Woodbridge, its first minister, who gave a set of biblical commentaries in recognition of the honor thus conferred on him. The house owned and occupied for many years by Mr. Woodbridge, was built in 1697 and burned in 1896. At the time of its destruction, it was supposed to be the oldest house in the town. Mrs. Woodbridge introduced tea into the parish. It was served at her afternoon quiltings, the grounds well boiled and eaten with a spoon. The Town Hall of the original undivided Woodbridge stood on an eminence a few hundred feet south-west of the residence of Robert Payne. The old town line between New Haven and Milford ran north and south about eighty rods west of the Church. many of its marking stones being still in place. Woodbridge and Bethany were created into separate townships by act of Legislature, in May, 1832.
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