Town of Brookfield Connecticut Flags Double Sided Brass Grommets Made to Order Allow 4 WeeksColonists settled in what is now known as Brookfield Town in 1700, led by John Muirwood and other colonial founders including Hawley, Peck and Merwin. They bartered for the land from the Wyantenuck and the Potatuck Nations who were ruled under the Sachems Waramaug and Pocono. Sachem Pocono's village was in an enormous palisade along the Still River. Colonists first established the area as the Parish of Newbury, incorporating parts of neighboring