Newman Trowbridge

Biography

Newman Trowbridge was a landowner of note in Connecticut during the late colonial and early federal periods. His tenure as a property holder spanned decades of significant change, from the eve of the American Revolution through the establishment of the new republic.

Trowbridge's life of seventy-eight years reflected the stability and continuity provided by substantial land ownership in eighteenth-century New England. His final resting place at Grove Street Cemetery marks him as a person of standing within his community.