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St. Matthew’s Aims to Tell the Story of Wilton’s Forgotten Enslaved people

WSP · Jun 19, 2022 ·

Members of St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church in Wilton stand in the cemetery, a site where some members believe former enslaved persons to be buried.

By J.D. Freda in The Hour on June 19, 2022

WILTON — St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church is committing itself to educating the community and paying tribute to the enslaved peoples of Wilton.

The goal is to spend the remainder of the calendar year digging through historical land and personal records, with the help of the Wilton Historical Society, to tell a proper story of an enslaved Wiltonian whose history has been lost in time. When the research has been completed, the church community anticipates a permanent, physical memorialization, in the form of a stone, somewhere in town to pay tribute to that individual. Continue reading.

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