Sources in the Database
Bibliography
| Abbreviations | Author | Title and no. of vols. | Place of publication | Publisher | Year | Edition | Repository |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJB | Beeching, Barbara J. | African Americans and Native Americans in Hartford 1636-1800: Antecedents of Hartford’s Nineteenth Century Black Community | Hartford | Trinity College | 1993 | MA Thesis; Hartford Studies Collection: Papers by Students and Faculty | https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1006&context=hartford_papers |
| Burpee | Burpee, Charles W. | Burpee’s The Story of Connecticut | New York | American Historical Company, Inc., | 1939 | ||
| HBA | Adams, Herbert Baxter | Labor, Slavery, and Self-government | Baltimore | The Johns Hopkins Press | 1893 | ||
| CCR | Trumbull, J.H; Hoadly, C.J. | The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut | Hartford | Brown and Parsons | 1850 | https://lib.uconn.edu/find/collections/unique-collections/public-records-of-the-colony-of-connecticut-1636-1776/ | |
| CAMP | CONNECTICD ARCHIVES MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS 1635- 1789 THREE VOLUMES AND INDEX | Hartford | CT State Library | http://cslib.cdmhost.com/digital/collection/p128501coll3/id/3409 | |||
| CTCAM | Ullman, Helen Schavet, transc. | Colony of CT Minutes of the Court of Assistants | Boston | New England Historical and Genealogical Society | 2009 | ||
| CTCHRec | Conn. Church Records: Hartford First Church of Christ, vol. 1, 1684-1910 | Received by CSL in 1942 | Manuscript/Microfilm | CSL, Reels 500-505; mss. F 974.62 H251c r v. 1 Main Vault | |||
| CTExplored | Anthony, Billie M. | "Monument to the Black Governors," CT Explored | West Hartford | Connecticut Explored Inc. | 2015 | https://www.ctexplored.org/monument-to-the-black-governors/ | |
| CTPP | Connecticut Probate Packets | CSL | |||||
| CTPR | Connecticut Probate Records | CSL | |||||
| Doc. Hist. of Sup. Ct. | Maeva Marcus, James R. Perry | The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789-1800, vol. 2 | New York | Columbia University Press | 1988 | Google books | |
| FEH | Barbour, Lucius Barnes | Families of Early Hartford | Baltimore | Genealogical Publishing | 1982 | Ancestry.com | |
| Florence Griswold Museum | Wakeman, Carolyn | "Documents: Lyme Family Slaves, Part 1 - Arabella's Dwelling Place" | http://florencegriswoldmuseum.org/documents-lyme-family-slaves-part-1-arabellas-dwelling-place/ | Florence Griswold Museum | February 27, 2013 | ||
| Goodheart | Goodheart, Lawrence. | The Solemn Sentence of Death: Capital Punishment in Connecticut | Amherst | University of Massachusetts Press | 2011 | ||
| Hale | Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934 | Ancestry.com | |||||
| HCCM | Ullman, Helen Schatvet, transc | Hartford County, Connecticut, County Court Records, vols. 3-4. | Boston | NEHGR | 2005 | ||
| HCFC | First Church of Christ | Historical Catalogue of the First Church in Hartford. 1633-1885 | Hartford | First Church | 1885 | ||
| Hermes | Hermes, Katherine | “'By Their Desire Recorded': Native American Wills and Estate Papers in Colonial Connecticut.” Connecticut History Review, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 150–173. | 1999 | www.jstor.org/stable/44369473 | |||
| Hermes/Maravel | Hermes, Katherine and Alexandra Maravel | "Finding The Onepennys Among The Wongunk," Special Issue of the Bulletin of the Archaeological Society of Connecticut, vol. 71 | 2017 | ||||
| K & B Journals | Sarah Kemble Knight and Rev. Thomas Buckingham | The journals of Madam Knight and Rev. Mr. Buckingham. | New York | Wilder and Campbell | 1825 | https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001268169 | |
| KC | Stowe-Day Foundation | Kingsbury Collection: Negro Census (Hartford 1803-1805) | Hartford | Stowe-Day Foundation | 1803-1805 | ||
| Knoblock | Glenn A. Knoblock | African American Historic Burial Grounds and Gravesites of New England | Jefferson, NC | McFarland & Co. | 2016 | ||
| Part.Ct. | Records of the Particular court of Connecticut, 1639-1663. | Hathitrust: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/ssd?id=mdp.35112104137601 | |||||
| NEM | Ne | New England Marriages before 1700 | Ancestry.com | ||||
| Reiss | Reiss, Oscar | Blacks In Colonial America | Jefferson, NC | McFarland & Co. | 2006 | ||
| RRR | Elihu Ashley; eds. Amelia F. Miller, A. R. Riggs | Romance, Remedies, and Revolution: The Journal of Dr. Elihu Ashley of Deerfield, Massachusetts | Amherst | University of Massachusetts | 2007 | ||
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| Hinman | Hinman, Royal Ralph | A Historical Collection from Official Records, Files, &c., | Hartford | E. Gleason | 1842 | ||
| Hinman2 | Hinman, Royal Ralph | A Catalogue of the Names of the First Puritan Settlers of the Colony of Connecticut | |||||
| AAC | Stone, Frank Andrews | African American Connecticut: The Black Scene in a New England State | Deland, FL | Global Research Center | 2008 | ||
| HSCC | Parker, Edwin Pond | History of the Second church of Christ in Hartford | Hartford | Belknap & Warfield | 1892 | HathiTrust: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100189580 | |
| Mayo Clinic | "Edema" | https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/edema/symptoms-causes/syc-20366493 | |||||
| SPC | Registers of Seamen’s Protection Certificates | Mystic, CT | Munson Institute | https://research.mysticseaport.org/databases/protection/ | |||
| RPC | Records of the Particular court of Connecticut, 1639-1663 | https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.35112104137601 | |||||
| HTV | The Connecticut Historical Society | Hartford Town Votes, (volume 6) | Hartford | Case, Lockwood, and Brainard | 1897 | https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=9v9PAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.PA1 | |
| HAW | Adams, Sherman W. 1836-1898 and Stiles, Henry Reed 1832-1909. | The history of ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut : comprising the present towns of Wethersfield, Rocky Hill, and Newington | New York | Grafton Press | 1904 | https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001262418 | |
| Benes | Peter and Jane Benes | Slavery/antislavery in New England | Boston | Boston Univ. | 2005 | ||
| BDC | Bowen, Clarence Winthrop | Boundary Disputes of Conn. | Boston | James R. Osgood and Co. | 1882 | ||
| ODL | Original Distribution of the Lands in Hartford Among the Settlers | Hartford | Connecticut Historical Society | 1912 | |||
| MKT | Talcott, Mary K. | The Original Proprietors | Hartford | Society of the Descendants of the Founders of Hartford, Inc. | 1987 | ||
| Trumbull | Trumbull, J. Hammond ed. | Memorial History of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884 | Boston | Edward L. Osgood Publishers | 1886 | ||
| DAR | National Society Daughters of the American Revolution | Forgotten Patriots African American and American Indian Patriots in the Revolutionary War | Washington, DC | National Society Daughters of the American Revolution | 2008 | ||
| F&IW | The Connecticut Historical Society | French-Indian War Rolls | Hartford | The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company | 1903 | Vol.1 | Google/ CSL |
| DW | Wadsworth, Daniel | Diary of Rev. Daniel Wadsworth, 1737-1747 | Hartford | The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company | 1894 | https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=RzQrAQAAIAAJ&rdid=book-RzQrAQAAIAAJ&rdot=1 | |
| Talcott Memo | Col. John Talcott | Memorandum Book of Col. John Talcott (-1688) | Hartford | 1934 | photostat copy of manuscript | CSL Archives. 920 fT1392 | |
| First Bapt. | Hartford First Baptist Church | Conn. Church Records: Hartford First Baptist Church, 1789-1909 | Hartford | 1939 | microfilm, vol. 1-3 | CSL, Reel #222 | |
| TASTD | David Eltis, et al. | Transatlantic Slave Trade Database | Atlanta, GA | Emory Univ. | 2013 | online | http://www.slavevoyages.org/voyage/ |
| EHH | Goodwin, Joseph O. | East Hartford: Its History and Traditions | Hartford | Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co. | 1879 | ancestry.com | |
| Runaway CT | Runaway Connecticut | Middletown, CT | Wesleyan Univ. | https://wesomeka.wesleyan.edu/runawayct/ | |||
| HSN | William Chauncey Fowler | The Historical Status of the Negro in Connecticut: | Charleston | Year Book | 1900 | googlebooks | |
| HNK | Frances Manwaring Caulkins | History of New London, Connecticut | Carlisle, MA | Applewood's Historiography Series | Orig.1895 | Reprint | https://books.google.com/books?id=HgIPz4OPYNoC&lpg=PP1&dq=history%20of%20new%20london&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=prentis&f=false |
| ECM (Wethersfield) | Rev. Frederick W. Bailey | Early Connecticut Marriages: As found on Ancient Church Records Prior to 1800 (Wethersfield, Hartford Co., CT, Marriages 1739-1799) | 1898 | vol. 3 | http://dunhamwilcox.net/ct/wethersfield_bride.htm | ||
| LOF | Catherine Adams, Elizabeth H. Pleck | Love of Freedom: Black Women in Colonial and Revolutionary New England | New York | Oxford University Press | 2010 | ||
| MIR | Rolls and Lists of Connecticut Men in the Revolution, 1775-1783 | CT Historical Society | |||||
| Swan | Timothy Swan | Psalmody and Secular Songs, Volume 26 | Madison, WI | American Musicological Society | 1997 | Google Books | |
| NEM | George Sheldon | "Negro Slavery in Old Deerfield," The New England Magazine, Vols. 8-14 | 1893 | Google Books https://books.google.com/books?id=bEVAAQAAMAAJ | |||
| BHF | Newman, Deborah L. | List of free Black heads of families in the first census of the United States | Washington, DC | National Archives and Records Services | 1973 | https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015019390544 | |
| Abbreviations | Author | Title and no. of vols. | Place of publication | Publisher | Year | Edition | Repository |
Uncovering Their History: African, African-American and Native-American Burials in Hartford’s Ancient Burying Ground, 1640-1815 is a project of the Ancient Burying Ground Association, and was funded in part by the Connecticut State Historic Preservation Office of the Department of Economic and Community Development with funds from the Community Investment Act.