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Clark’s map of Fairfield County, Connecticut, 1858. Weston and Wilton are in the center to the right of the Bridgeport inset. Public Domain courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
Two new volumes have been added to the North American Cemetery Transcriptions from NEHGS Manuscripts, 1642-1977 database which provide extensive coverage of Weston and Wilton in Fairfield County, Connecticut. The indexing efforts of our volunteers has produced over 15,000 new records and 45,000 searchable names. The new volumes are:
- CT, Fairfield: Weston (CT WES 40)
- CT, Fairfield: Wilton (Mss A 2777)
Both manuscripts were written by Francis Ferdinand Spies in 1934 and are in the NEHGS manuscripts collection. They contain inscriptions copied from the graveyards, arranged with genealogical and historical notes and an index. Weston and Wilton are next to each other in southwestern Connecticut. The indexing for these records includes birth and death records with full names, cemetery locations, and names of parents and spouses where available.
This update is made possible by the efforts of our volunteer Edna Curtin. If you have some time available and would like to get involved in the digitizing and indexing process, locally or remotely, please contact Rachel Adams, Database Services Volunteer Coordinator via email at rachel.adams@nehgs.org.
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Winter in Vermont
Today we’re announcing 23 new sketches from Norwich, VT in Early Vermont Settlers, 1700-1784 and two updated sketches. Scott Andrew Bartley’s study project focuses on heads of families who lived in Vermont prior to the Revolutionary War. He has so far focused on Windsor and Windham counties in southeast Vermont. This update includes over 1,000 new records and over 2,700 new names. The new volumes are listed below:
Babcock, Oliver (Norwich)
Ball, Ebenezer (Norwich)
Ball, Humphrey (Norwich)
Ball, Joseph (Norwich)
Benton, Medad (Norwich, Royalton)
Brown, Samuel (Norwich)
Brown, Samuel, Jr. (Norwich)
Closson, John (Norwich, Thetford)
Crane, Elisha (Norwich)
Curtis, Elias (Norwich, Royalton, Tunbridge)
Curtis, Simeon (Norwich)
Fenton, Benjamin (Norwich)
Fenton, Francis (Norwich)
Messenger, Nathan (Norwich)
Messenger, Nathaniel (Norwich)
Partridge, Elisha (Norwich)
Partridge, Samuel (Norwich)
Partridge, Samuel, Jr. (Norwich)
Richards, Jonas (Norwich)
Turner, David (Norwich, Randolph)
Waterman, Elijah (Norwich)
Wright, Aaron (Norwich)
Wright, John (Norwich)
Updated sketches:
Baldwin, Daniel (Norwich)
Bennett, John (Hartford)
Please note: These databases are available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Altar at St. James (Haverhill), page 417 in James Sullivan’s One Hundred Years of Progress
Today we’ve added seven new volumes to Massachusetts: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1900. The new volumes come from St. James in Haverhill. St. James was established in 1850, originally called St. Gregory. The name of the church was changed when the parish expanded to a larger building in 1884. In its early years, Catholics from Bradford, Groveland, and Georgetown also worshiped at St. James. This update adds 21,538 new records and 67,652 new names to our database. The new volumes are listed below:
St. James (Haverhill) Baptisms, 1851-1859
St. James (Haverhill) Baptisms, 1868-1897
St. James (Haverhill) Baptisms, 1898-1900
St. James (Haverhill) First Communions and Confirmations, 1884-1900
St. James (Haverhill) Marriages, 1850-1859
St. James (Haverhill) Marriages, 1868-1900
St. James (Haverhill) Deaths, 1885-1900
Please note: These databases are available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Notre Dame des Victoires By Daderot [CC0], from Wikimedia Commons
Our Lady of Victories (Boston) Baptisms, 1880-1882, 1890-1898
Our Lady of Victories (Boston) Baptisms, 1883-1890
Our Lady of Victories (Boston) Baptisms, 1898-1900
Our Lady of Victories (Boston) Deaths, 1889-1900
Our Lady of Victories (Boston) Marriages, 1884-1899
Our Lady of Victories (Boston) Marriages, 1899-1900
Our Lady of Victories (Boston) Various, 1880-1890
Please note: These databases are available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Bath Bridge, spanning the Ammonoosuc River, Lisbon Road, Bath, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA. Built 1832 with modified Burr truss. Picture taken 28 January 2012. Public Domain courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
We have revamped the database Bath, NH: Births Attended by Dr. John French, 1807-1857. This database now contains the page image of the original manuscript, and it is searchable by first name and last name, record type, and family members (where available). Record types include Birth and Death records.
Please note that Dr. French tended to record the name of the mother or father and often not the name of the child. It will often be helpful to search with just the last name and year to find records.
These records were copied, and the index compiled, by John Hibbard, town clerk of Bath, New Hampshire. Dr. John French was born in South Hampton, N.H., and commenced his practice at Warren, N.H., in 1807. Early in 1808 he located in Landaff, where he practiced until April 1822, when he removed to Bath. He remained there in active practice until the latter part of 1857. These records contain the names of 2,336 fathers and the dates of birth of their children. In addition to Bath, they list births in the surrounding towns of Landaff, Lisbon, Lyman, Benton, and Haverhill. All of these towns are in Grafton County, N.H.
The transcription is kept in the R. Stanton Avery Collections at NEHGS, call number, Mss A 6921.
This update is made possible by the efforts of our team our volunteers. If you have some time and would like to get involved in the digitizing and indexing process please contact Rachel Adams, Database Services Volunteer Coordinator via email at rachel.adams@nehgs.org.
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
[Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Mount Greylock By Tichnor Bros. Inc., Boston, Mass. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Eleazer Brown (Adams)
George Hall (Hancock)
David Wells (Shelburne)
Please note: These databases are available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
Map of the Patent granted to Henry Beekman.
We are very happy to add Volume 10 to our database Dutchess County, NY: The Settlers of the Beekman Patent. This series is an invaluable resource for researching the early settlers of Dutchess county, New York. Volume 10 contains over 1,200 pages and is focused on families with last names between Paine to Rogers. Almost 30,000 names have been added with this volume.
Note that this database has a name-only index, derived from the book index itself. Search terms should be focused on First and Last names. You may also specify a volume to restrict your search results.
The Settlers of the Beekman Patent series, by Frank J. Doherty, contains data on over thirteen hundred families who settled in the Beekman Patent, an original land grant given to Col. Henry Beekman in 1697 by the English Crown and the second largest patent in present-day Dutchess County, New York. Many emigrants from New England lived in and passed through the Beekman Patent on their way west. Others, such as the Palatines and Quakers (almost all from New England), were early settlers and remained for several generations or more. Mr. Doherty has published a total of 13 volumes in this series, we are now adding volume 10 in accordance with our agreement to make them available as searchable database after 7 years have passed.
The printed index is also available at the end of this volume, starting on page 1004. As noted in the book (see here), there are some errors in the printed index which we have corrected when indexing the online version.
This update is made possible by the efforts of our team our volunteers. If you have some time and would like to get involved please contact Rachel Adams, Database Services Volunteer Coordinator via email at rachel.adams@nehgs.org.
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
A view of the Elliottville Lower Mill (Peeptoad road Mill) East Killingly, CT built in 1850. Photo by Randall Simmons 14 June 2011, via Wikimedia Commons.
We have revamped the database Killingly, CT: Church Records, 1711-1775. This database now contains the page image of the original manuscript, and it is searchable by first name and last name, record type, and family members (where available). Record types include Birth, Baptism, Church Record, Marriage, and Death records.
These records are from the original “Book of Church Records: The gift of J. F. (Rev. John Fisk) to the Church of Killingly; March the 5th, 1715-16.” Records from the book were published in the Putnam Patriot newspaper in 1894, and the information contained in this database was abstracted from these newspapers by E. D. Larned. The records were later published in a book entitled Church Records of Killingly, Connecticut (Hunterdon House, Lambertville, N.J., 1984). The Putnam-Killingly Parish Second Church was built in 1715. This manuscript is part of the R. Stanton Avery Collections at NEHGS, call number Mss A 6126.
This update is made possible by the efforts of our team our volunteers, including Sam Sturgis. We appreciate the work of all our volunteers. If you have some time and would like to get involved please contact Rachel Adams, Database Services Volunteer Coordinator via email at rachel.adams@nehgs.org.
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.
View of East Haddam, Connecticut, and Goodspeeds Landing: 1880. Public Domain, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
We have revamped the database East Haddam, CT: Records of the First Congregational Church, 1704-1802. This database now contains the page image of the original manuscript, and it is searchable by first name and last name, record type, and family members (where available).
The First Congregational Church in East Haddam, Connecticut was formed January 6, 1704. The first meeting house was thirty-two feet square and took five years to build. It was used for twenty-three years until a second house was built in 1728. The first minister was Rev. Stephen Hosmer, who presided from 1704 to 1749. These records in this database are primarily Baptisms, with some Church Admissions included.
This update is made possible by the efforts of our team our volunteers, including Sam Sturgis. We appreciate the work of all our volunteers. If you have some time and would like get involved please contact Rachel Adams, Database Services Volunteer Coordinator via email at rachel.adams@nehgs.org.
Please note: This database is available to Individual-level and above NEHGS members only. Consider membership.