Reunion 2025

Botsford Family Historical Association

Welcoming the Platts and other Milford Founding Families

Schedule of Events

Friday, July 18^th	6:00pm – 9:00pm	Evening Reception at the Homestead[1]
Saturday, July 19^th	9:00am	Registration
	9:30am	Bus departs for tours
	9:45am – 10:30am	Milford Cemetery Visit
	10:30am	Bus departs from Milford Cemetery to Milford Historical Society
	10:45am – Noon	Milford Historical Society tour
	Noon	Bus returns to Homestead
	12:15pm – 1:30pm	Lunch
	1:30pm – 2:00pm	Botsford Association Annual Meeting
	2:00pm – 3:00pm	Speaker: Arthur Stowe[2], Milford City Historian
	3:00pm	Awards, Cake and the Famous Brag Kitty

Parts of the Reunion will be available on Zoom to those unable to attend in person.

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[1] The Botsford Homestead is located at 84 Gunn Street in Milford, Connecticut

[2] Arthur Stowe is currently serving his 9th year as the Historian for the City of Milford.  Complimenting his lifelong interest in the history, Arthur has served as President of the Milford Historical Society and holds a degree in history.  Arthur is a descendant of Captain Stephen Stowe, famous for risking his own safety to care for Revolutionary soldiers suffering from smallpox, who were abandoned at Milford's harbor by a British prison ship.  Sadly, many of the soldiers, including Captain Stowe, succumbed to the illness and died.  One of the houses in the Historical Society's care once belonged to Captain Stowe.

Milford's City Clerk, Peter Smith, has uncovered and digitized some of the earliest Milford land deeds and civic documents, some dating back to the 17th century containing signatures of Native Americans.  Mr. Smith reached out to the Milford Historical Society to help with transcribing old handwritten pages to printed text that an AI program can read.  Arthur has been assisting in this endeavor.   The goal of Mr. Smith's project is to make this early information available to the public.