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Oct 16, 2024 · Connecticut Colonial & Early State Records Links. The first five collections listed below are links to original digitized records held in the CT State Archives. The remaining titles are links to published works and a link to the original volume of early Hartford records held by the Hartford History Center. Connecticut Colonial Land Records ...
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Many records from the colonial era in New England were kept at the town or county level. Search the catalog at the town or county level to locate those records. 1. 1640-1846- Colonial land records of Connecticut, 1640-1846 : including patents, deeds and surveys of land. Images only. +++
The Dutch were the first to establish a settlement in Connecticut at Hartford (Suckiaug) in 1633. British Massachusetts settlers began migrating into Connecticut in the 1630s. Settlers from Watertown, MA moved to Wethersfield (Pyquag) in 1634. Settlers from Plymouth and Dorchester, MA moved into Windsor (Mattaneaug) in 1635. In 1635, Puritans from ...
Church Records
1. The Church of England in pre-Revolutionary Connecticut : new documents and letters concerning the loyalist clergy and the plight of their surviving churchedited by Kenneth Walter Cameron. (Hartford, Connecticut : Transcendental Books, 1976).
Court Records
1. General Court Records (1636-1818): Known as the General Assembly, the highest state court during the colonial era with civil and criminal jurisdiction. Records from these courts have been transcribed from The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut. 2. Particular Court (1638-1666): All types of cases, including appeals from town courts. These include The Public Records and abstracted in Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society. Vol. 22. Records of the Particular Court of Conne...
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1. Connecticut Gazette(1755-1812) 2. Connecticut Journal(1767-1835) 3. Hartford Courant(1764-1865) 4. New London Gazette(1765-1836) 5. New London Summary, or Weekly Advertiser(1758-1763) 6. Norwich Packet(1773-1812)
Jul 28, 2009 · A catalogue of the names of the early Puritan settlers of the colony of Connecticut : with the time of their arrival in the country and colony : their standing in society, place of residence, condition in life, where from, business, &c., as far as is found on record collected from records.
In 1631, Governor Winslow, of Plymouth, appears to have had his attention drawn to the settlement of Connecticut, and he made a journey to Connecticut soon after, and discovered Connecticut River.
The General Court of Connecticut Colony, gave Nathaniel, Eli, and others, an order of settlement, in 1650, and in Sept., 1651, incorporated the town. Though some of its settlers were there in 1650. Some of the early records call the town Norrwake, and some early records call Norwich, Norridge.
Jul 25, 2024 · The following are online land records for the town of Branford: 1640-1846 Colonial Land Records of Connecticut, 1640-1846: Including Patents, Deeds and Surveys of Land (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images; 1645-1906 Land records, 1645-1906; general index, 1645-1878 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog — images; Connecticut Land and Property
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History of Branford. In 1638 the New Haven Colony traded "eleven coats of trucking cloth and one coat of English cloth made in the English fashion" to the Mattabesec Indians for land known as Totokett (Tidal River). The first permanent settlement was established in 1644 when people from Wethersfield came to Totokett, later renamed Branford ...
