Early Handcuffs Used in Groton     

These handcuffs, one of the earliest pairs used at Groton’s town jail, have a very different design from the handcuffs we are used to seeing in the modern day. Lacking a chain between the cuffs, this pair would have kept the convicted’s hands tightly together, using a screw mechanism to hold the two double-crested halves together. These cuffs would have likely been similar to those used by Prudence Wright’s Guard to transport
Loyalist Leonard Whiting from Jewett’s Bridge in 1775.