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Book 1: Early New Haven

(Originally published in 1912, about 120 pages.)

Contents:
  Chapter I. Finding a new home
  Chapter II. The first year
  Chapter III. Laying out the town
  Chapter IV. The fundamental agreement
  Chapter V. Commerce
  Chapter VI. The meeting house
  Chapter VII. The Green
  Chapter VIII. The homes of the first settlers
  Chapter IX. Internal dissensions
  Chapter X. Davenport and Eaton
  Chapter XI. The Regicides: William Goffe and Edward Whalley
  Chapter XII. The Regicides: John Dixwell
  Chapter XIII. The Union with Connecticut
  Chapter XIV. After the Union
  Chapter XV. The breaking our of the Revolution
  Chapter XVI. The British invasion of New Haven
  Chapter XVII. Early schools and schoolmasters
  Chapter XVIII. Yale College
  Chapter XIX. The cemeteries
  Chapter XX. Early maps of the Colony of New Haven
  Chapter XXI. A retrospect


Book 2: Records of the Colony of Jurisdiction of New Haven.  From May, 1653 to the Union. Together with the New Haven Code of 1656

(Originally published in 1858, about 630 pages.)


Book 3: Records of the Colony and Plantation of New Haven, From 1638 to 1649

(Originally published in 1857, about 555 pages.)

Contents:
 
Indian deeds of the plantation of New Haven
  The names of all the freemen of the Courte of Newhaven
  New Haven Colony records 
  Index


Book 4: Inscriptions on Tombstones in New Haven, Erected Prior to 1800

(Originally published in 1882, about 145 pages)


Book 5: The East-Haven Register. In Three Parts
Part I. Containing a history of the town of East-Haven from its first settlement in 1644, to the year 1800; also, an account of its boundaries, iron-works and mills, division of lands, controversies with New Haven and Branford, town charters, ecclesiastical affairs, schools, population and taxes, losses by war, natura history and curiosities, roads and public lands, Part II.
Containing an account of the names, marriages, and births, of the families which first settled, or which have resided in East Haven from its settlement in 1644 to the year 1800,
Part III. Containing an account of the deaths in the families names in the second part from the yea 1647 to the end of the year 1823

(Originally published in 1824, about 223 pages.) 

Contents:
Part I. East-Haven register
  Chapter I. New-Haven purchased and settled...
  Chapter II. Concerning the boundaries of the town
  Chapter III. Concerning the iron works and mills
  Chapter IV. The general history of the town...
  Chapter V. Ecclesiastical affairs
  Chapter VI. Schools and education
  Chapter VII. Population and Taxes
  Chapter VIII. Losses by war
  Chapter IX. Natural history--tornado and curiosities
  Chapter X. Roads and public lands 
Part II. The Family Record
Part III. The Death Record


Book 6: Historical Sketches of Meriden

(By G.W. Perkins. Originally published in 1849, about 117 pages)


Book 7: An Historic Record and Pictorial Description of the Town of Meriden, Connecticut, and Men Who Have Made It. From Earliest Settlement to Close of its First Century of Incorporation, A Century of Meriden, "The Silver City," Issued as the Official Souvenir History by Authority of the General Committee at the Centennial Celebration, June 10 to 16, 1906  

(Originally published in 1906, about 1,236 pages.)

Contents:
Part I.
  Chapter I. Historical Sketch of Colonies of Connecticut and New Haven. First Notices of Territory of Meriden. Disputes between the two   Colonies Relative to Dividing Line.
  Chapter II. Jonathan Gilbert, Meriden's first Landowner. Meriden Farm. Edward Higbee's Indian Purchase. Andrew and Jonathan Belcher own Farm. Old Tavern and Stone House or fort.
  Chapter III. New Haven Colony's Purchase of Land of Indians. Rev. John Davenport's Letter to Governor John Winthrop. Early Extent of Territory Included Under Name of Meriden.
  Chapter IV. Origin of the Names of Meriden and Pilgrims' Harbor.
  Chapter V. Founding and Settling of Wallingford. Hop Lands. Dogs' Misery, Pilgrims' Harbor, Milking Yard, Falls Plain or Hanover, Hanging Hills Woods.
  Chapter VI. Northern Half of Meriden. Purchase from Adam Puit, Indian. Dispute with Middletown. Setting off of Parish of Meriden, 1728.
  Chapter VII. Grants of Farms to James Bishop and William Jones. Magistrates of Colony of Connecticut. Some Old Meriden Farms.
  Chapter VIII. Further Account of Old Meriden Farms and Landowners. Capt. Josiah Robinson's Tavern.
  Chapter IX. Old Meriden Farms Cont. Rev. Theophilus Hall.
  Chapter X. Old Farms Cont.
  Chapter XI. Building of First, Second and Third Metting Houses. Church and Parish History.
  Chapter XII. Metting House Hill and Broad Street Cemeteries. Inscriptions and Epitaphs.
  Chapter XIII. Life in Meriden During the Eighteenth Century. Industries. Wallingford and Meriden Stores and Store Keepers. Taverns. Mining. Early Physicians.
  Chapter XIV. Indians. Negro Slaves and Slavery.
  Chapter XV. Witchcraft Persecutions in Wallingford.
  Chapter XVI. Meriden and Wallingford in the Wars.
  Chapter XVII. Tories in Meriden and Wallingford.
  Chapter XVIII. Bangall. Further Account of Meriden Farms and Landowners. Wallingford and Middletown Boundry Disputes. Mt. Lamentation, Leonard Chester's Adventure. Beset Mountain.
  Chapter XIX. 1806 -- Meriden a Town. The Village Streets.
  Chapter XX. Early Struggles of Meriden to become a manufacturing Town. Success Crowns the effort.
  Chapter XXI. Merchants of the Middle of the 19th century. Hotels. Places of Amusement and Resort. Town Hall. Conflagrations. Meriden a City, 1867. Newspapers. Early Lawyers. Conclusion.
Appendix.
  List of Representatives in the General Assembly. State Senators. Town Clerks. First Selectmen. Judges of Probate. Mayors of the city. City Clerks.
  Early Vital Statistics.
  Early Vital Statistics. Marriages. Baptisms and Burials.
Part II.
  Meriden in the Civil War
Part III.
  Manufacturies


Book 8: Inscriptions on Tombstones in Milford, Conn., Erected Prior to 1800. Together With a Few of the Aged Persons Who Died After That Date

(Originally pulished in 1889, about 67 pages.)


Book 9: The History of Guilford, Connecticut, From its First Settlement in 1639

(Originally published in 1877, about 221 pages.)


Book 10: History of the Town of Hamden, Connecticut, With an Account of the Centennial Celebration, June 15th, 1886

(Originally published in 1888, about 359 pages.)

Contents:
 
Part I. Celebration of the Centenary
  Initiatory proceedings 
  Hamden centeenial celebration 
  Opening prayer 
  Opening address 
  Governor Harrison's address 
  The flag of our Union 
  Prof. S.E. Baldwin's address 
  Addresses and remarks 
  The loan exhibition 
 Part II. Historical and descriptive
  Title, boundaries and topography 
  Sketch of the geology 
  History of mining in Hamden 
  Forest trees 
  Agriculture 
  Public works 
  Manufacturing industry 
  Schools and education 
  Ecclesiastical history 
  Military history 
  Extracts from the town records 
  The poor of the town 
  Population 
  Societies 
  Family history notices (Contains brief Genealogies & Biographies)
  Taxation and land records 
  List of Freemen admitted
  list of Selectmen elected 
  List of Representatives and senators from Hamden


Book 11: History of Cheshire, Connecticut from 1694 to 1840. Including Prospect, Which, as Columbia Parish, Was a Part of Cheshire Until 1829

(Originally published in 1912, about 574 pages.)

Contents:
 
Chapter one. Quinnipiac colony--discovery of site, and settlement of New Haven-- the regicides--colony of Connecticut
  Chapter two. The new village--King Philip's war--Church Society--layouts of land--list of proprietors
  Chapter three. Permanent settlement--discovery of Copper--another division of lands--school and church matters
  Chapter four. First Church Society--description of houses--the spelling lesson--list of freemen, 1730--money values
  Chapter five. Church services described-- war declared, 1753--copies of orders and proclamations--the stamp act--tax lists
  Chapter six. Opposition to English taxation--slave owners--Cheshire's part in the Revolutionary War
  Chapter seven. Church dissensions--establishment of Cheshire Academy--buidling of the Farmington Canal
  Chapter eight. The separatists--Methodist Society formed--Barytes mines--some old accounts--additional names of soldiers
  Parson Hall's records
  Parson Foot's records
  Town records of Cheshire
  Congregational church records
  Deaths-tombstone records
  Deaths in Cheshire, from town records-not in "Tombstone list."
  Record of burials from Episcopal Church
  List of freemen
  Amasa Hitchcock's records
  Marriages from Wallingford records


Book 12: The History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1641-1880. With Biographies and Genealogies    

(Originally published in 1880, about 965 pages.)

Contents:
Indian History
  Chapter I. Primitive condition
  Chapter II. Ethnographic history
  Chapter III. Chuse and the last families
  Chapter IV. Further authentic records
  Chapter V. The Indian as an enemy
History of Derby
  Chapter I. Paugasuck and Paugassett
  Chapter II. Derby. 1675-1680
  Chapter III. A mill, a meeting house, and war
  Chaper IV. Education, enterprise and improvements
  Chapter V. Dissenting Derby and the Episcopal Church
  Chapter VI. Derby in the Revolution
  Chapter VII. After the Revolution
  Chapter VIII. The town of Oxford
  Chapter IX. Commercial enterprises
  Chaopter X. The first church of Derby and the War of 1812
  Chapter XI. Roads, bridges an floods
  Chapter XII. Birmingham
  Chapter XIII. The dam and Shelton
  Chapter XIV. Ansonia
  Chapter XV. The town of Seymour
  Chapter XVI. The War of the Rebellion
  Biographies
  Genealogies 
  Appendix
   Index

 

Book 13: History of the Soldiers' Monument in Waterbury, Conn. To Which is Added a List of the Soldiers and Sailors Who Went from Waterbury to Fight in the War for the Union

(Originally published in 1886, 182 pgs.)

 

Book 14: Waterbury and Her Industries. Fifty Attractive and Selected Views, by the Photogravure Process, as Photographed From Nature, of the Many Leading Manufacturing Establishments, Public Buildings, Churches, Residences, Park, Street and General Bird's-eye Views of Waterbury, Conn. Together with a Historical Sketch of the City and its Various Industries

(Originally published in 1889, about 87 pages.*Photos come out dark.)

 

Book 15: The History of Waterbury, Connecticut. Original Township Embracing Present Watertown and Plymouth, and Parts of Oxford, Wolcott, Middlebury, Prospect and Naugatuck, With an Appendix of Biography, Genealogy and Statistics

(Originally published in 1858, about 623 pages)

 Contents:
 
Chapter I. Discovery of the Naugatuck Valley: Preparations for a settlement
  Chapter II. The settlement begun: Town center
  Chapter III. Delinquent subscribers
  Chapter IV. Subscribers who finally secured their rights
  Chapter V. The common fence and common field
  Chapter VI. Indian purchases: Incorporation of the town: Sequester lands
  Chapter VII. Mills
  Chapter VIII. Roads, Bridges, etc.
  Chapter IX. Indian wars: The Great Flood: The Great Sickness
  Chapter X. Bachelor proprietors
  Chapter XI. Personal notices of the first settlers of Waterbury
  Chapter XII. Personal notices of the first settlers
  Chapter XIII. Ecclesiastical affairs: Mr. Peck's ministry
  Chapter XIV. Eddleslastical affairs: Mr. Southmayd's ministry
  Chapter XV. Schools
  Chapter XVI. Population increases: Immigration
  Chapter XVII. The settlement extends: New societies
  Chapter XVIII. Mr. Leavenworth's ministry: The third meeting house
  Chapter XIX. Episcopacy in Waterbury
  Chapter XX. Church and State: Slavery: Old French War
  Chapter XXI. Revolutionary history
  Chapter XXII. After the war: Miscellaneous items
  Appendix. I. Biography
  Appendix. II. Genealogy
  Appendix. III. Later ecclesiastical societies: Manufacturing: Statistics
  Index

 

Book 16: Ancient Burying-Grounds of the Town of Waterbury, Connecticut. Together With Other Records of Church and Town

(Originally published in 1917, about 338 pages) 

Contents:
  I. Preface
  II. Grand Street Cemetery inscriptions: 1709-1871
  III. Salem bridge burials: 1740-1857
  IV. Parish of Northbury burials and marriages: 1740-1875
  V. Parish of Westbury record of deaths: 1741-1816
  VI. The meeting-house book: 1727-1729. The seating of the second meeting-house 1791: The meeting house book 1727-1729
  VII. The seating of the second meeting-house: 1791
  VIII. List of tax-paying inhabitants: 1730-1783
  IX. Appendix
  X. Index

 

Book 17: Proprietors' Records of the Town of Waterbury, Connecticut: 1677-1761

(Originally published in 1911, about 280 pages)

 Contents:
  Chapter I. Waterbury proprietors' records
  Chapter II. First proprietor's book
  Chapter III. Proprietors' records
  Chapter IV. Grants of land
  Chapter V. Report of committees on Mill lands 1851
  Chapter VI. Appendix
  Index

 

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