Captain Theophilus Yale was a British military officer, magistrate, and one of the early settlers of Wallingford, Connecticut. His grandnephew, Dr. Lyman Hall, became one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, and a signatory of the Declaration of Independence. Yale was also a deputy of the Connecticut House of Representatives and Justice of the Peace for Wallingford.
Capt. Theophilus Yale's great-grandnephew, Sea captain Theophilus Yale, nephew of Capt. Elihu Yale
Center Congregational Church, Meriden, Connecticut, Theophilus Yale's brother was one of its founders
Valparaiso Bay, Chile, where Sea captain Theophilus Yale died, in the early 19th century
The General Armstrong, Joseph Yale's brother-in-law, Capt. Winship, was captured aboard during the War of 1812
Wallingford is a town in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States, centrally located between New Haven and Hartford, and Boston and New York City. The town is part of the South Central Connecticut Planning Region. The population was 44,396 at the 2020 census. The community was named after Wallingford, in England.
Downtown Wallingford
Seal
New York Insulated Wire Company, 1910.
Library and Marlborough House, c. 1909.
