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New Canaan Now & Then: Briggs Property
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‘New Canaan Now & Then’ is sponsored by Brown Harris Stevens Realtors Joanne Santulli, Karen Ceraso, Bettina Hegel and Schuyler Morris. According to the 1850 Census, Gilbert Briggs, the owner of the property that would later become 23 Talmadge Hill, was married to Mary Burtis. Mr. Briggs, who was 25 in 1850, was one of the 344 shoemakers in New Canaan at the time. He and his wife had one child, Stephen, who was born in 1851. Ms. Burtis passed away three years later.