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See also these surnames: Adsit, Baker, Bishop, Carter, Collins, Cone, Converse, Easton, Gilbert, Granger, Hewitt, Hitchcock, Holcombe, a href="surh.html#Huntington">Huntington, Keeler, Kilbourn, Lacy, Leffingwell, Mills, Moore, Newton, Nash, Reynolds, Rockwell, Rose, Slafter, Stiles, Warriner, Webster.

"Connecticut State Register and Manual 1907." Hartford, The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co. 1907. Contains listings of Elected members and offices, Town Officers, Town Fire Wardens, City Officers, Borough Officers, Military, State Institutions, Misc Institutions and Societies, Dentists, Public Libraries, Librarians, National, Savings and State Banks, Insurance Companies, Statistics....More than I can list. Also includes members of Misc Societies. K22

"Connecticut State Register and Manual 1911." Hartford, Published By The State 1911. Contains listings of Elected members and offices, Town Officers, Town Fire Wardens, City Officers, Borough Officers, Military, State Institutions, Misc Institutions and Societies, Dentists, Public Libraries, Librarians, National, Savings and State Banks, Insurance Companies, Statistics....More than I can list. Also includes members of Misc Societies. K22

"The Founders of Saybrook Colony and Their Descendants." Compiled & Published by The Founders Committee, 1985. KIM

"The Genealogy of the Hitchcock Family" Mrs. Edward Hitchcock, Sr., Carpenter & Moorehouse Press (1894). The genealogy of the Hitchcock Family who are descended from Matthias Hitchcock of East Haven, Conn., and Luke Hitchcock of Wethersfield, Conn. JCM

"Geographic Dictionary of CT and RI." By Henry Gannett. RFS

"History of Ancient Woodbury, Connecticut" from the first Indian Deed in 1659 to 1854, including the present towns of Washington, Southbury, Bethlem, Roxbury and a part of Oxford and Middlebury. This book not only details history of the area in that timeframe, but includes many family histories (indexed). This volume also includes many lists; ie, political positions, religious, military, fraternal (all of which are not indexed), hence would be difficult to search through. Willing to do limited family lookups (this volume was published in 1854 and fragile) for anyone researching this area of Connecticut for the following time frame. LD, PB4

"The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut 1647-1697." John M. Taylor, Brohan Press, 1999 Reprint. A very detailed analysis of Witchcraft laws, witches, trials and evidence in Connecticut between 1647 and 1697. LS6

Fairfield Co.

"The Ancient Historical Records of Norwalk, Connecticut with a Plan of the Ancient Settlement, and of the Town in 1847." Edwin Hall, Heritage Books, Inc., 1997 This book is a compilation of records of the town founders, town records, society records, church records, Revolutionary War reminiscences, and genealogical register. This book is by no means complete, but 320+ pages. LC1

"The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Towns Vital Records "G" #14." Compiled by Christina Bailey & Lorraine Cook White; Genealogical Publishing Co.; 1999. Barbour indexes for Goshen, Litchfield County 1739 - 1854; Granby, Hartford County 1786 - 1850; Greenwich, Fairfield County 1640 - 1848. A9

"The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Towns Vital Records "M N" #28." Compiled by Jan Tilton; Genealogical Publishing Co.; 2000. Barbour Index for Milford, New Haven County 1640 - 1850; New Canaan, Fairfield County 1801 - 1854; New Hartford, Litchfield County 1740 - 1854. A9

"Barbour Collection of Connecticut Vital Records vols. 36, 50." Edited by Lorraine Cook White, Genealogical Publishing Co. (c) 2000. Vol. 36: Portland, 1841-1850; Prospect, 1827-1853; Redding, 1767-1852; Ridgefield, 1709-1850. MW4

"Famous Families (Barnum), Pioneers of CT-A Handbook of Cemeteries - Brookfield CT and portions of New Milford and Newtown." Old South Cemetery Association, 1986. Nearly complete listings of Occupants of 10 Cemetaries in these areas - predominantly early settler families of CT including Barnums, Beardsley Hawleys, Northrop, Starr Sturdevant, Morehouse, Wheeler, Whaley and many many more. LA

"The Historical Account of the Italian Immigrants of Ridgefield, CT." Aldo P. Biagiotti, Romald Press, 1990. Story of Italian Families that immigrated to Ridgefield, Fairfield Co, CT beginning late 1800s. Includes Surname Index; Biographical sketches; photos; general history. D3

"History of Danbury, Conn 1684-1896." James Montgomery Bailey, Burr Printing House, 1896. Lots of valuable information regarding the beginnings of Danbury, Connecticut. Included in the book are the genealogies of some of the first settlers, Danbury during the Revolution, old burial grounds, and more. JK7

"State Veterans Cemetery at Springgrove Cem. Darien, CT," PUB #5 of Middlesex Gen. Soc. DH

"Wilcox Family History. Being Some Account of the First Five Generations in Direct Line From William Willcockson of Stratford, Connecticut to Josiah Wilcox of Brecksville, Ohio." Owen N. Wilcox, August 1911. GT

Hartford Co.

See also these surnames: Buck, Marvin, Marsh.

"The Ancestors & Descendants of Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth & wife, Abigail Wolcott." by Donna Holt Siemiatkoski, M.A., Gateway Press Inc, 1992 The Ancestors and Descendants of Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth and his Wife Abigail Wolcott and the Story of Elmwood, their Homestead. LL2

"Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records Windsor 1637-1850." Lorraine Cook White, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 2002. Transcriptions of vital records for the town of Windsor, Connecticut for the years 1637 to 1850. M8

"Early Connecticut Probate Records - Hartford District." Manwaring, genealogical publishing, 1904-1906. These records (in three volumes) comprise Wills in the Hartford area in the years, 1735-1700; 1700-1729; 1729-1750. BW1

"The Descendants of John Porter of Windsor, Conn., 1635-9," Vols. I, II. Henry Porter Andrews, G.W. Ball, Saratoga Springs, 1893. Genealogies of the descendants of John Porter of Windsor, CT. J28

"Geer's Hartford City Directory" - Geer 1862,1864,1872,1889. Note they are for the City of Hartford not the County. MT

"A Genealogy of the Descendants of William Holton of Hartford, CT and Northampton, MA." comp. by Edward P. Holton; arr. & ed. by Harriet Scofield, not published. Most Holton descendants lived in Northfield and other towns in Franklin County, MA, with many removing from there to the Mid-West. JH8

"The History of Ancient Windsor [CT] volume I and II." by Henry R. Stiles; which is The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, CT including East Windsor, South Windsor, Bloomfield, Windsor Locks, and Ellington 1635-1891. SSM

"The History and Genealogies of Windsor, CT," Vol I. Henry R. Stiles, Hartford CT Press of thr Case,Lockwood and Brainard Co.; 1891. The History of Windsor, including East Windsor, South Windsor, Bloomfeild, Windsor Locks and Ellington. M37

"A History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, CT 1635-1891," Vol II. Henry R. Stiles; Hartford, CT Press of the Case, Lockwood and Brainard Co.; 1892. Genealogies of the people who lived in Ancient Windsor from 1635-1891. Some of the more know or prominant families are pretty thorough. M37

"History of Ancient Wethersfield - CT" - by Henry Stiles, 2 Volumes. GK

"The History of Ancient Wethersfield." Sherman W. Adams and Henry R. Stiles, New Hampshire Publishing Co. 1974. History of Wethersfield, Connecticut with extensive family information. S6

"History of New Britain, with sketches of Farmington and Berlin, Connecticut." Camp, David N., William B. Thomson, Co., New Britain, 1889. Very thorough history of the area mentioned above. Covering early civic history, schools, churches, business and industry, and with many families detailed; such as Stanley, Hart, Steele, Judd, Mather, Lee, and Booth. Family histories not as extensive as the Andrews book. NGB

"History of Simsbury, Grandby and Canton, from 1642-1845." Noah A, Phelps; Penobscot Press; 1845. List of town people, freeman, judges. Histories of the three towns. M37

"Memorial. Genealogical and Ecclesiastical History." Andrews, Alfred S., (Auth.& Publ.) 1867. Wealth of information on the founding familes of New Britain, CT, which began as a "First Church Society" (Congregational) in the Kensington (Great Swamp), Farmington, and Worthington area of Hartford County, CT. Parts of these became New Britain and Berlin in 1850. Many early families are extensively covered: Hart, Steele, Booth(e), Mather, Judd, Stanley, Pennfield, North, Andrews, Lee, and others. NGB

"A Record and Documentry History of Simsbury." Lucius I. Barber, M.D.; Abigail Phelps chapter of the DAR; 1931. M37

"Simsbury A Brief Historical Sketch." Ellsworth; Simsbury Committee for the Tercentenary; 1935. A historical sketch of Simbury of ancient to today. M37

"Wethersfield Inscriptions." Edward Sweetser Tillotson, published by William F. J. Boardman, Hartford, Conn. 1899. Wethersfield Inscriptions: A Complete record of the inscriptions in the Five Burial places in the Ancient Town of Wethersfield, including the towns of Rocky Hill, Newington, and Beckley Quarter (in Berlin), also a portion of the Inscriptions in the Oldest Cemetery in Glastonbury. T8

Litchfield

"A Genealogical Register of the Inhabitants of the Town of Litchfield, Conn." George C. Woodruff, Originally published in Connecticut, 1845, Reprinted by: Janaway Publishing, 2002. "From the settlement of the Town, A.D. 1720, to the year 1800. Whereby one knowing his father's name, may perhaps ascertain who were some of his antecedent progenitors. Collected from the records of said Town, Probate records of Wills, Distributions, Etc., and from other sources." JP8

"History of Litchfield County, Connecticut with Illustrations & BIographical Sketches of Prominent Men." JW Lewis, 1881. There are profiles of over 200 prominent men. Some of the names are:
Thatcher
Everitt
Reeve
Allen
Slosson
Southmayd
Smith
Gould
Benedict
Huntington
Miner
Church
Sterling
Hosmer
Peters
Chapman
Bristol
Brainard
Daggert
It is organized by topic (lawyers, doctors, military, railroad) and then by town. Please provide as much information about the person (occupatoin/where he lived) as possible as it is not indexed. If there is an illlustration of the person, I will scan it for you. K10

"HONOR ROLL - LITCHFIELD COUNTY REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS." Mary Floyd Tallmadge Chapter DAR, Litchfiled, Conn., 1912. Alphabetical by town/village. The book lists the soldiers name, source and page # of where to find the information. D22

"Register of Revolutionary Soldiers and Patriots buried in Litchfield County." Joyce Mackenzie Cropsey-Phoenix Publishing, Canaan, NH 1976. A register of the Revolutionary Soldiers and Patriots buried in Litchfield County, CT. and their wives, sometimes gives parents of the Soldier or Patriot and parents of the wife. T8

Middlesex Co.

New Haven Co.

See also under these surnames: Betts, Camp.

"1907 Class of Yale College Vol III Decennial Record." History of the Class of 1907, Yale College. Edited by Minott A. Osborn, Class Secretary - Privately Printed by the Yale University Press 1921. This book contains biographical sketches of each member of the class, a war record summary and obituaries with pictures. MR5

"1913 - Waterbury, Naugatuck & Watertown City Directory." AB3

"Atwater Memoirs." Francis Atwater, Horton Printing Co, Meriden Ct, 1922. Memoirs of his life, Atwater genealogy, History of the city of Meriden, CT, biographies of several notable citizens, histories of many local businesses. TM2

"THE DESCENDANTS OF EDWARD PERKINS of NEW HAVEN,CONN." CAROLINE ERICKSON PERKINS ROCHESTER, NY. 1914. Includes Anna Johnson, wife of Azariah Perkins who was a descendant of Edward Perkins of New Haven,Conn. The theory of her line was written by Donald Lines Jacobus, M.A. of New Haven,Conn.and is included in this book pages 73-80." DPR

"Families of Ancient New Haven." Donald Lines Jacobus, Genealogical Publishing Co, Inc., 1997. This is a 9 volume work detailing the families found in the New Haven, Connecticut area up until about 1800. It is a diligently researched work, taken from primary sources. K17

"First Families of Milford CONN." Susan Woodruff Abbott, no publisher listed, 1976. Listing of early families of Milford, New Haven, CT., often including several generations. C1

"A History and Genealogical Record of the ALLING--ALLENS of New Haven, Conn." George P. Allen, Price, Lee & Adkins Co., 1899. Desendents of Roger Alling and John Alling from 1639 to 1899. Covers Connecticut, New York, New Jersey and Ohio families. RAH

"A History of The Class of 1881 Yale College Vol II 1907-1929." Charles P. Coffin Published with the Assistance of the Class Secretaries Bureau 1930 Biographies of each member of the Class of 1881 prepared for their 50th Reunion. MR5

"History of the Class of 1930 Yale College." Published under the Diretion of the Class Secretaries Bureau 1930. Biographies and pictures of each member of the class. MR5

"History Old Town of Derby, Connecticut 1642-1880." Orcutt-Beardsley, 1880. Biographies and genealogies. PB4

"The Hotchkiss Family, First Six Generations, Descendants of Samuel Hotchkiss of New Haven, Ct. " Nellie Cowdell, Gateway Press, Inc, 1985. Children were: John, Samuel, James, Sarah, Joshua, Thomas, Daniel. JW5

"Memories of Old Derby (CT)." Albert F. Sherwood, 1924. PB4

"Meriden, Southington, Wallingford 1978 Telephone Directory." Southern New England Telephone, 1978. White and Yellow Pages for these three communities. TM2

"Meriden, Southington, Wallingford 1982 Telephone Directory." Southern New England Telephone, 1982. White and Yellow Pages for these three communities. TM2

"The New Dudley Genealogies---The Descendants of William of Guilford." Compiled by Rev. Gary P. Dudley, Heritage Books Inc., 1999. KIM

"New Haven's First City Directory-1840." CRS2

"Proprietors' Records of the Town of Waterbury, Connecticut 1677-1761." Transcribed and Edited by Katharine A. Pritchard, Reprint Genealogical Publishing Co., 2002. MW4

"Tales of Old Wallingford." Clarence Hale, The Pequot Press, 1971. No index, 154 pages. Includes Doolittle, Peck, Moss, Brockett, Street, Miles, Merriman, Beach, Benham, Cook, Curtis, Hall, Potter, Harriman, How, Royce, Rice, Whittelsey, Dana, Noyes, Meigs, Franklin, Freeman, Ward, Yale, Todd, Thompson, Hull, Beadle, Foote, Fenn, Atwater, Choate,Terry, O'Brien, Callahan, Slate, Wallace, Stevens, Simpson, O'Reilly, Mooney, Huldie, Toohey, Cline, Harrison, Trask, Anderson, Mietkiewicz. No dates but has other interesting info. SVS

"Thomas Sanford The Emigrant to New England." Carlton E. Sanford, The Tuttle company 1911. Sanford Genealogy, descendants of Thomas Sanford of Milford, CT. C1

"Waterbury, CT City Directory 1935." Price & Lee Co. Alphabetical directory of names, with occupations/addresses & Numerical directory of streets with householders/businesses of Waterbury, CT, 1935. AB3

"Yale College the Quarter-Century Chronicle of the Class of 1921." Yale College. Philip O'Brien, 1946. Biographies and some pictures of the class of 1921 twenty-five years later. MF1

New London Co.

Windham Co.

"A Modern History of Windham County Connecticut." Allen B. Lincoln, Editor pub. 1920. First, go to this website: http://users.rcn.com/lmerrell/windham.html. About half way down the page you'll find indexes to Volumes 1 and 2. If you find your family, please include page numbers in your request to me. Thanks! E-mail Deb. DSI

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