Thank you. Janet My family were farmers in Branford I am a native. This has explain alot for me. Thanks again. Cindy Lou (Struzinski) Burgess -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 8:01 AM Subject: [CTNEWHAV] Re: Branford Records >I am from Branford and have spent much time working at the Branford town hall >in the Branford land records researching Fowlers and Frisbies. I have never >heard anyone say either that the earliest Branford records are missing or >that they were taken to Newark by Pierson and his flock in 1666. > >Nevertheless they are very spotty compared to the neighboring town of >Guilford's records and it does seem that much has been lost over the >years...still they do begin fairly early and there are two volumes of Volume >One and Volume Two. I asked there yesterday when the earliest records begin >and they say the 1640s; there surely is a copy of the original Covenant from >1644; the records are indexed and there is a typed transcript of the earliest >volume and a typed index which are available at both the Town Hall and the >James Blackstone Memorial Public Library in Branford. > >The Probate records are another matter. The earliest ones used to be in the >New Haven Hall of Records but have been moved to the Connecticut State >Library...these would be those records from the beginning to about 1722. >Branford then became part of the Probate District of Guilford and the >Guilford Town Hall, Probate Office, holds the Probate Records of Branford >from 1722 through 1850. After that Probate Records are held by the Probate >Office in Branford. > >For more specific information...I would contact Jane Bouley (Branford Town >Historian), Tootsie Laske (Branford Town Clerk), or David Driessens >(Archivist of the First Congregational Church). The Church also has early >records. > >Janet Riesman > > > >==== CTNEWHAV Mailing List ==== >Need to reach Colleen, the discussion coordinator? Send her an email > at <[email protected]>. > > >============================== >Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 >Source for Family History Online. Go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=702&sourceid=1237 > >