Category: Connecticut

Records of the Particular Court of Connecticut 1639-1663

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Bowie, MD, Heritage Books, Inc. : 1987

Seller ID: mcct2101

ISBN-13: 9781556130786

Binding: Soft cover

Court of the Colony of Connecticut and their records dated 1639-1663. @
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The Goodrich Family

Price: $90.00

Publisher: Chicago, Fergus Printing Co. : 1984 Reprint of 1889 Book

Seller ID: fhg2105

Binding: hardcover

Condition: new

A genealogy of the descendants of John and William Goodrich of Wethersfield, Conn., Richard Goodrich of Guilford, Conn., and William Goodridge of Watertown, Mass. Together with a short historical account of the family in England, the origin of the name, a description of Goodrich Castle, etc. 417 pages. @
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Connecticut Revolutionary Pensioners

By: Connecticut DAR, Connecticut Society Daughters of the American Revolution

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Genealogical Pub. : 1982

Seller ID: rw2300

ISBN-13: 9780806309866

Binding: Hard cover

The overriding importance of this list of 11,000 Connecticut Revolutionary pensioners--apart from supplying us with the names of the pensioners--is that it often gives the names of pensioners' widows and the pensioners' places of residence at the time of the various Pension Acts. In addition, it sometimes provides the age of the pensioner (or his widow) and a brief description of his military service. Occasionally there is a reference to his date and place of death or a notation indicating that he was pensioned from another state. In all cases the source of the pension record is identified: su...
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Families of Ancient New Haven

By: Donald Lines Jacobus

Price: $190.00

Seller ID: MCCT1900

ISBN-13: 9780806306063

Binding: Library

Condition: New

This 3-volume set is a compilation that includes the families of the ancient town of New Haven, covering the present towns of New Haven, East Haven, North Haven, Hamden, Bethany, Woodbridge, and West Haven. These families are brought down to the heads of families in the first census (1790), and include the generation born about 1790-1800. Descendants in the male line who removed from this region are also given, if obtainable, to about 1800, unless they have been adequately set forth in published genealogies. 2062 pages, all name index.Families include: Abraham, Baldwin, Durand, Hine, Pierpont,...
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Revolutionary War Records of Fairfield Connecticut

By: Donald Lines Jacobus

Price: $52.00

Seller ID: gp2984

ISBN-13: 9780806317496

Binding: Library

Condition: New

Originally published as Volume III of History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, including pension documents relating to Fairfield Soldiers. In addition to the pension abstracts included here, a few records have been included of soldiers who were natives of Fairfield, but served other towns; and a very few who, strictly speaking, belonged to Norwalk, Stratford, or other adjacent towns when they bore Fairfield names. 474 pages, full name index.

Families Include: Bradley, Hull, Morehouse, Patchen, St. John, Wakeman
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Hale, House and Related Families Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley

By: Donald Lines Jacobus, Edgar Francis Waterman

Price: $90.00

Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company : 1978

Seller ID: fhh2102

ISBN-13: 9780806308098

Binding: Hard cover

Condition: Used. Mild water damage lower book block

Of the forty-seven families set forth here (Hale and House and forty-five others), fourteen lived in Glastonbury or its mother town of Wetherfield, four were of Hartford, and two of Windsor; while on the Massachusetts side, fourteen lived in Springfield and six others were located in Northampton, Hadley, Hatfield, and Deerfield. Two were in Saybrook, at the mouth of the Connecticut River, and five were scattered. Mr. Jacobus, who built on Mr. Waterman's files, succeeded in presenting exhaustive data from original sources, in providing new interpretations as well as additions and corrections to...
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The Descendants of Governor Thomas Welles of Connecticut 1590-1658 and his wife Alice Tomes

By: Donna Hall Siemiatkoski

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Baltimore, MD, Gateway Press, Inc. : 1990

Seller ID: fhw2009

Condition: front cover worn, inside new

Thomas Welles is the only person in Connecticut's history to hold all four top offices: governor, deputy governor, treasurer, and secretary. In 1639, he was elected as the first treasurer of the Colony of Connecticut, and from 1640–1649 served as the colony's secretary.230 pages including index. @
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From Valley Forge to Freedom: A Story of a Black Patriot

By: E. Merrill Beach

Price: $38.50

Seller ID: mcr1774

ISBN-13: 9780871060563

Binding: perfect

Condition: fair

Book Condition: The cover of this book has shelf wear, plus a tear at the top. While the book is tightly bound and pages have no tears or marks, the lower portion of the pages are slightly wavy. Be sure to look at photos.This biography of a slave, Revolutionary War soldier and freeman is an interesting story of how Nero Hawley changed the course of his life. When he joined the army to fight in the Revolution, the war had been going for two years. He lived in Connecticut at the time, but soon after enlisting ended up at Valley Forge. After the war ended, he returned to Connecticut, where he be...
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American Commonwealths - Connecticut, A Study of a Commonwealth-Democracy

By: Edited by: Horace E. Scudder

Price: $32.50

Publisher: The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Boston & New York Houghton, Mifflin and Company : 1903

Seller ID: ct2202

Condition: used

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1887. First edition, 1887. Dark olive cloth with gilt cover lettering, olive endpapers, with a nicely color printed foldout frontis map, 409 pages with extensive index. The book is in very good condition with only mildly rubbed corners and spine ends. @
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Connecticut Historical Society Collections Vol. VIII Revolution Rolls & Lists 1775-1783

By: Hartford

Price: $40.00

Seller ID: mcct1800

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used library, acceptable

This volume of Rolls and Lists is published under the provisions of a recent special Act of the General Assembly making an annual appropriation of one thousand dollars to the Connecticut Historical Society; one of the purposes specifically named in this act being "to publish its rolls of soldiers in the revolutionary and colonial wars, not heretofore printed". Another provision is that the Society "shall deposit in the State Library three hundred copies of each catalogue, report, or other work published" under this act, to be disposed of by the State Librarian. This is the third publication is...
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Families of Ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut
The History of Ancient Wethersfield

By: Henry R. Stiles

Price: $45.00

Seller ID: chctw1801

ISBN-13: 9780806349237

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Poor, loose pages

The history of Ancient Wethersfield, comprising the present towns of Wethersfield, Rocky Hill, and Newington; and of Glastonbury prior to its incorporation in 1693, from date of earliest settlement until the present time, with extensive genealogies and genealogical notes on their families. 946 pages, surname index.

Names include: DeBlois, Foote, Hurlbut, Mygatt, Talcott, Wyllys
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Voices of the Republic, Connecticut Towns 1800-1832, Volume II: What We Think

By: Howard R. Lamar

Price: $30.00

Seller ID: mcct2002

ISBN-13: 9781878508256

Binding: Library

Condition: New

The second volume in a 2-volume set. Volume I contains original responses to an 1800 survey of the Connecticut towns. Volume II contains essays by modern historians and scientists from the interpreting what those responses say on various topics covered (e.g., agriculture, livestock, health, roads and bridges, indians, fisheries, shipping, mines, minerals, quarries, fuels, botanical, and ecological observations.) The publication contains fresh and vivid material, and brings Connecticut's past alive! 338 pages, indexed.
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Tapestry: Black Family CT

By: James M. Rose, et el

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New London, Ct, New London County Historical Society : 2004 reprint

Seller ID: gp9792

Binding: soft cover beige

Condition: new

This is a fascinating book about the author's family as well as 16 other black families who were brought to Connecticut as slaves for the Puritans. Athought not all the families share a common ancestor, they do share common experiences. Rose tells their stories through records, letters, and photographs. Even if your family is one of the 17 profiled, the books is still a fascinating read. Families profiled are: Adam Rogers family, Wright family, Jacklin family, Jackson family, Bonham family, Freeman family, Cato family, Gideon family, Magira family, Moody family, Peters family, Hyde family, Mas...
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Connecticut 1670 Census

By: Jay Mack Holbrook

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Oxford, MA, Holbrook Research Institute : 1977

Seller ID: ct2200

Condition: lightly used

Connecticut In 1670. 74 Pages. @
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A Fitch Family History

By: John T. Fitch

Price: $50.00

Publisher: : 1990

Seller ID: fhf2007

ISBN: 97819978114180

Condition: New

255 pages, English Ancestors of the Fitches of Colonial Connecticut. The surname, now usually spelled Fitch, was spelled as Fecche, Fycche, Fiche, Fyche, and Fitche during the lifetime of just one member of the family Lin the 15th Century.
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Connecticut Loyalists: an Analysis of Loyalist Land Confiscations In Greenwich, Stamford and Norwalk

By: John W. Tyler

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Polyanthos : 1977

Seller ID: ct2201

Binding: Soft cover

This is only thirty-one pages, but it is a sophisticated work of scholarship. Indeed, it is a model of its genre. Included are a half dozen excellent illustrations and a short digest of statements of claims, by name, of seventy-six Loyalists of the towns named in the title.

Index. 135 p. &
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Apprentices of Connecticut 1637-1900

By: Kathy A. Ritter

Price: $30.00

Seller ID: mcct1700

ISBN-13: 9780916489199

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

A collection of names of apprentices, who they were bound to, dates and trades learned with reference to where the information was found, and related information. 183 pages, full name index. Names include: Andrus, Cowles, Goodrich, Merriam, Starr, Underwood
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The Original Proprietors

By: Mary K. Talcott

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Society of the Descendants of the Founders of Hartford : 1986

Seller ID: ncvt2000

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Extract from "Memorial History of Hartford, County", vol. 1, 1886. It contains names of those who came to Hartford before February, 1640.

p. 227-277. &
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Genealogical Notes First Settlers of Connecticut and Massachusetts

By: Nathaniel Goodwin

Price: $25.00

Publisher: : 2012

Seller ID: nehs2202

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: New

361 pages, including index. Originally published in 1856, this volume presents the compile notes of early American genealogist Nathaniel Goodwin for more than forty seventeenth-century families through the fourth and sometimes fifth or sixth generation. An ideal starting point for New England researches, the detailed notes will have family historians of all levels returning to this book again and again. Contributions to the Family History of Some of the First Settlers of Connecticut and Massachusetts.
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Eye of the Storm A Civil War Odyssey
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By: Private Robert Knox Sneden

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, NY, The Free Press : 2000

Seller ID: mccw1902

ISBN-13: 9780684863658

Binding: hard cover

Condition: slightly worn in lower right hand corner

What a marvelous book with colored sketches of the Civil War and an account by Private Robert Knox, a Union mapmaker. Book of magnificent to the art and literature of the Civil War. Just when it seemed that nothing could be unearthed about America's Armageddon, along comes the unexpected: a sensational discovery of a long-hidden treasure trove of sketches and a memoir of riveting descriptive prose. In 1994, 500 watercolors and a 5,000 word journal by Knox were discovered in Connecticut. This book is a result of those discoveries. 329 pages. @
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History of the Town of Ledyard 1650-1900

By: Rev. John Avery

Price: $50.00

Seller ID: chctl1800

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

From the Preface: "At the annual meeting of the Bill Library Association, held in Ledyard, Aug. 30, 1899, the writer read a paper on the Pequot Indians. It prompted Ledyard Bill, who was present, to suggest the preparation of a History of the Town of Ledyard, Mr. Bill offering to publish it, also to assist in its preparation. After a few months delay—during which the proposal was duly considered—the work was begun, and the result is here' given. To the many friends who have rendered assistance the undersigned tenders hearty thanks. Some have written portions of the work in full; many have ...
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Connecticut Attacked: A British Viewpoint, Tryon's Raid on Danbury

By: Robert F. McDevitt

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Lanham, Maryland, Globe Pequot : 2017

Seller ID: mcct

ISBN-13: 9780871060501

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: new

Revolutionary Era of 1763 to 1787. A phase of the bicentennial observation. American Revolution Bicentennial Commission of Connecticut authorized scholars of study to write a series of monographs on Revolutionary Era. 76 pages. @
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The First Puritan Settlers of Connecticut

By: Royal R. Hinman

Price: $35.00

Seller ID: mcct2003

ISBN-13: 9780880823289

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

Originally published as "A Catalogue of the Names of the FIrst Puritan Settlers of the Colony of Connecticut" in 1846, this book represents Royal R. Hinman's first attempt at creating a "genealogical dictionary" for Connecticut. Hinman, who served as the Secretary of State of Connecticut from 1835 to 1842, focused primarily on the seventeenth century, "giving the names of such of the settlers as can be found on record, who came into the Connecticut Colony previous to the Union of the Colonies of New Haven and Connecticut in 1665, together with their standing and condition, as far as can be asc...
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The Descendants of James Stanclift of Middletown, Connecticut and Allied Families

By: Sherry Smith Stancliff & Robert C. Stancliff

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Cincinnati, Ohio, S.S. Research : 1995

Seller ID: fhs1803

Condition: new

James Stanclift (1639-1712) was born in England probably near the town of Halifax, Yorkshire and died in East Middletown, Hartford Co., Ct. He probably arrived in Connecticut about 1684. He married in Lyme, Ct. about 1685 Mary Tinker Waller (1653-1712), widow of William Waller and daughter of John and Alice Smith Tinker. She was born in Boston, Mass. They had four children together and also raised Mary's three children from her first marriage. Descendants live in Connecticut, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Illinois, New York, Vermont, Kansas, California and elsewhere. 548 Pages. @
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History of Ancient Woodbury, Connecticut

By: William Cothren

Price: $65.00

Seller ID: chctw1800

ISBN-13: 9780806307817

Binding: Library

Condition: Used, fair, some markings and light notations

From 1,500 manuscript volumes of church, state, town, and society records, and from many thousands of rare manuscripts consulted during the course of seven years' labor, Mr. Cothren succeeded in developing an exhaustive chronicle of the persons, places, and events which most accurately characterized Woodbury's history up to the middle of the 19th century. Where the book succeeds to an unusual degree is in the portions devoted to biography and genealogy, which occupy one-half of the text. The genealogies, of which there are some eighty-five, are a flesh and blood inventory of the families most ...
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Category: Connecticut