Trumbull is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut bordered by the towns of Monroe, Shelton, Stratford, Bridgeport, Fairfield and Easton. The population was 36,018 according to the 2010 census. The town includes one of two reservations in the state occupied by the state-recognized Golden Hill Paugussett Indian Nation, descendants of the historic people who held this area in the colonial era.HistoryThis area was long occupied by the Paugusset Indian nation in historic times, before European encounter. During the late 1630s, English colonists started settlement at what became the Town of Trumbull, as part of the Great Migration from England. This was related to the coastal settlement of Stratford, Connecticut.The farmers in the northwest area of the town of Stratford petitioned the Colony of Connecticut in 1725 to establish their own separate village. The farmers wanted to name their village Nickol's Farms, after the family that owned a large farm in its center, but the Colony called it Unity. In 1744 Unity merged with the village of Long Hill (organized in 1740) to form the Society of North Stratford.
