Thieves, rumrunners and rapscallions all color the unsavory side of Litchfield County history.
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In 1780, Barnett Davenport s brutal actions earned him infamy as the nation s first mass murderer.
During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Owen Sullivan and William Stuart took advantage of the County s isolated stretches and a currency shortage to build counterfeiting empires.
Townspeople accused women of witchcraft simply for not bearing enough children in the early days of the region.
Thieves, rumrunners and rapscallions all color the unsavory side of Litchfield County history