Vital Records of Mansfield, CT to 1850

From the introduction:

“Miss Ellen D. Larned's valuable History of Windham County, tells us that Mansfield was included in a tract of land left by Joshua, third son of a Mohegan chief, to Capt. John Mason and fifteen other gentlemen from Norwich. After the tract was surveyed, and divided into lots, three sites were "selected for villages. The Hither Place, now Old Windham village, the Ponde Place, now Mansfield Centre, and the valley of the Willimantic, near the site of the present Willimantic Borough."

The town of Mansfield was incorporated in May, 1703, but it was not until 1710 that Mr. Eleazer Williams, son of Rev. John Williams of Deerfield, Mass, was ordained a pastor of the first church.

In 1737, the town was divided into North and South Parishes, and in 1744 a second church was established in the North Parish, over which Rev. Wm. Thorp from Lebanon, was ordained as pastor. There are very few records of the second church in its early days.

In all these old records, I find what are evidently the same names, spelled differently; for instance, Slaughter and Slafter, Royse and Royce, Dimuck, Dimmick, or Dimock. Often under the same entry, you will find all the different spellings. I have copied them according to original spelling as far as possible. The records of Coventry, Conn., have been received with so much appreciation, that I have been encouraged to compile the records of Mansfield, Conn.”

This database contains 8,141 births and baptisms, 4,001 marriages, and 1,553 deaths.

This volume is also available in our Boston research library, call number: F104 M2 D5 1898.

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