Meet Mary Bushnell Leffingwell

Come to Leffingwell on May 16, 11am-3pm to learn about Mary Bushnell Leffingwell the nurse and healer to the residents of Norwichtown in the 1700's. Mary was the wife of Ensign Thomas Leffingwell who was granted in 1701, the first license to entertain strangers at the Leffingwell Inn. She died at 91 and her Epitaph reads: “of an aged nursing, Mother of God’s New English, wife of Ens.Thomas Leffingwell. Mary used many herbal remedies for her nursing in the community. She will share some of the ailments she treated, herbs she learned about from Native Americans and the herbs that were imported from England that were used to treat her friends and neighbors in Norwichtown. Experience History at Leffingwell! 11am-3pm, $8