Source Information
Ancestry.com. Hartford County, Connecticut: Memorial History 1633-1884,Volume I-II [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002.Original data: J. Hammond Trumbull, ed. The Memorial History of Hartford County Connecticut 1633-1884. Vol. I-II. Boston, MA, USA: Edward L. Osgood Publisher, 1886.
About Hartford County, Connecticut: Memorial History 1633-1884,Volume I-II
This database contains a history of Hartford County, Connecticut. Hartford County is located in the north-central part of the state and was formed as an original county in 1666. This history covers a 250-year time span from 1633-1884 in two volumes. Within these two volumes the history is divided into essentially three parts - the county, Hartford town and city, and the towns of Hartford County (excluding the town of Hartford). Topics found in this database include:
- Early History of Hartford County
The River Towns, 1635-1666
The Colonial Period
The War of Rebellion
The Bench and Bar
The Medical History of Hartford County
Hartford in Literature
The Milita
Freemasonry
Emigration
Settlement of the Town of Hartford
The Town Since 1784
The City of Hartford
The Churches of Hartford