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The Hartford Dark Blues were a 19th-century baseball team. The team was based in Hartford, Connecticut.* Brooklyn Hartfords (1877) * Hartford Dark Blues (1874-1876) *
with Kent family of Suffield, we'll collect, clean up, "MP," and write good profiles About Me narratives for the early families of Suffield, Connecticut. Please email Hatte Blejer or any of the collaborators to join the project if you are interested.The list from the above website is shown below. Feel free to add any additional families who settled early in Suffield, certainly those before 1800...
=The Rogerenes=* Traclng the sect no one has heard of* A Geni research blog What is a Geni research blog?It's a collaborative adventure in fact finding and tree building.Please add entries, most recent on top, date stamped and with your name or initials. Free form musing invited, and pictures most welcome. If you upload them to the "media" section, you can also embed them in the project page. A...
The Farber Collection is a photographs collection held by the The American Antiquarian Society Photographs of Sculpture on American GravestonesAn unusual but valuable collection at the American Antiquarian Society is that of the photographs of grave markers. Old burial grounds are treasure houses of early American sculpture and of historical and genealogical information. As Harriet Merrifield F...
Links===* Naming Conventions * Indian Tribes of Connecticut =Indian Tribes of Connecticut=*Mahican>The northwestern corner of Litchfield County was occupied by the Wawyachtonoc, a tribe of the Mahican Confederacy of the upper Hudson, though their main seats were in Columbia and Dutchess Counties, N. Y. *Mohegan>The name means "wolf." They are not to be confused with the Mahican. Also called:>>R...
This is a place for all men who served as members of the General Court of the Colony of Connecticut during the 1636 - 1776 period, before it was replaced by the Connecticut General Assembly (which remains today).The seat of the Court was originally at Hartford, then began alternating with New Haven when that colony merged with the Connecticut Colony.Other information will be here when someone a...
About 30 heads of households settled in Farmington before 1655. Most of Farmington’s first settlers were men of modest though respectable rank in England – husbandmen, artisans, and yeomen, but among the first proprietors of the town (men who owned land but didn’t actually become settled inhabitants) men of gentry status in England and of the highest rank in the new colony, such as were Edward ...
Norwich, Connecticut was founded in 1659 by settlers from Old Saybrook led by Major John Mason and Reverend James Fitch. They purchased the land that would become Norwich from the local Native American Mohegan Tribe.> note: To become a Member by Descent it is necessary to provide documentation that proves your ancestry to one of the original proprietors. To apply, you will need an Application f...
In researching members of the Stowe family, I realized that there were a number of families from Middletown that intermarried, about whom there is some confusion on Geni. In order to straighten out these families, I began this project about early families in Middletown circa the late 1600s. I will begin with Stowe, Wheeler, Adkins/Atkins, Whitmore. It appears that some of these families origina...
List of the oldest buildings in Connecticut == Please add profiles to this project. Feel free to ask for your state's oldest homes list, too ... * | Henry Whitfield House | Guilford, Connecticut|Guilford| 1639* |Oldest surviving stone American Colonial house in New England, museum since 1899.* | Loomis Homestead | Windsor, Connecticut|Windsor| 1640-1688* | Ell from 1640, main house from 1688, ...
Wallingford was established on October 10, 1667, when the Connecticut General Assembly authorized the "making of a village on the east river" to 38 planters and freemen. The “long highway” located on the ridge of the hill above the sandy plain along the Quinnipiac River is the present Main Street in Wallingford. On May 12, 1670, Wallingford was incorporated and about 126 people settled in the t...