As part of the West Hartford 250 commemoration, the program ‘Bristow: A Life Remembered’ will take place Thursday, Feb. 19 at the Noah Webster House & West Hartford Historical Society.

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The public is invited to an insightful lecture on the life of Bristow as we celebrate West Hartford’s America 250 history. The event will take place at the Noah Webster House, 227 South Main St., on Thursday, Feb. 19 at 6 p.m. Tickets are $5 for museum members and $8 for the general public. Click here for tickets.

Bristow, sometimes spelled Bristol, was a resident of the West Division of Hartford (now West Hartford) in the mid- to late-1700s. Regarded for his agricultural knowledge, he was enslaved by the Thomas Hart and Sarah Whitman Hooker family until 1755. Hooker family lore maintained that he was granted his freedom, but his manumission papers show that he purchased his freedom from Thomas Hart Hooker.

Bristow lived with his former enslaver, Sarah Whitman Hooker, in his later life, and is buried in Old Center Cemetery on North Main Street in West Hartford.

In 2004, West Hartford named its third middle school after Bristow, a colonial-era resident of what is now West Hartford.

This program is co-hosted by the Noah Webster House & West Hartford Historical Society, West Hartford’s America 250, and the West Hartford Town Historian.

This lecture will be presented by Booker & Elena DeVaughn.

More information can be found here.

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