MANUSCRIPTS AND MICROFILM

CENSUS MATERIALS (Print and Microfilm)

United States Federal Population Census

    Print

  • Indexes for Connecticut --1790-1870
  • Index for Connecticut --1910                   
  • Index for Massachusetts --1850    
  • Census of the Inhabitants of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, 1774

           Microfilm                             

  • Census for Connecticut --1790-1880 & 1900-1930
  • Census for Massachusetts--1850-1930     
  • Census for Rhode Island - 1850-1930                

CITY DIRECTORIES (Books &Microfilm)

Microfilm

  • Ansonia, Bristol, Hartford, Middletown, New Haven, New London, Stamford,  1902-1935 
  • Danielson, 1913-1925
  • Manchester, 1888-1960
  • Mystic, 1912-1932
  • Norwich, 1861-1960
  • Putnam, 1907-1933
  • Willimantic, 1884-1960
  • Winsted, 1883-1901
  • Print

  • Willimantic/Windham/Coventry -various 1940-1980;Willimantic -- 1981, 1983, 1988, 1989.

VITAL STATISTICS - Births, Deaths, Marriages

 

 

Barbour Collection of Connecticut Vital Records, 1630s-1850s.

Hale Collection of Connecticut Vital Records, 1640s-1850s.[Microfilm]

MANUSCRIPTS (Microfiche & Microfilm)

 

  • Papers of the American Slave Trade -    
  • Series A: Selections from the Rhode Island Historical Society, Part 1 - Brown Family Collections (guide only); Part 2 - Selected Collections (guide & film)

  

  • Papers of the American Slave Trade -              Series B: Selections from the Newport Historical Society, Part 1 - Selected Collections (guide only);  Part 2 - Aaron Lopez Collection (guide & film)
  • Amistad papers
  • Salem Witchcraft (also available in print)
  • Connecticut Revolutionary War Orderly
  • Missionary Society of Connecticut Records -- 1759-1948
  • Nathaniel Shaw Family Papers --1755-1799
  • The Worker and Technological Change--1930-1980     
 

EARLY AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS (microfilm & CD)

  •    Advertiser, 1818-1819
  •    American Mercury (Hartford), 1784-1820
  •    Bridgeport Daily Standard, 1861-1866
  •    Connecticut Courant, 1764-1820; 1821-1837
  •    Connecticut Mirror (Hartford), 1809-1832
  •    Courier (Norwich), 1798-1809
  •    Liberator (Massachusetts), 1831-1865
  •    Middlesex Gazette (Middletown), 1785-1820
  •    Morning News (New London), 1844-1848
  •    Native American, 1812-1813
  •    New London Day, 1881-1945
  •    New-London Summary, 1758-1763
  •    Norwich Bulletin, 1900-1930
  •    Norwich Packet, 1773-1802
  •    Register (Windham), 1817-1818
  •    The Times (Hartford), 1817-1819
  •   *Willimantic Chronicle (weekly), 1879-1894 
  •   *Willimantic Daily Chronicle, 1891-1970
  •    *The Chronicle, 1971- present (3 mos lag)
  •    Windham County Transcript, 1854-1943
  •    Windham Herald, 1781-1798                               
  •    Index to Norwich Bulletin, 1865-1940 (2 CDs)
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