Naugatuck in the Revolution

Chauncey Judd - kidnapped by Tories. Tier 2 - One sourced story.

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[Tradition] In 1780, Tory sympathizers reportedly kidnapped young Chauncey Judd in the Naugatuck Valley - a dramatic episode retold in an 1874 novelized account that became one of Connecticut's most vivid wartime stories. - Naugatuck Historical Society

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