Thoroughly indexed for subjects as well as every name, these Hartford County, Connecticut, county court records cover a fascinating range of topics. Cases deal with debt, conflicts over land, and probate matters, as well as impounded hogs, stolen horses, drunkenness, use of “abusive expressions,” and several accusations of murder and witchcraft. For those doing genealogical research today, these county court records sometimes reveal people’s relationships. A father may have agreed to pay the fine for a son found guilty of “nightwalking” or for a daughter when she had “committed folly.” This volume continues from where the Records of the Particular Court of Connecticut, published in 1928, left off in April 1663. At first the court is sometimes a “Particular Court,” sometimes an Assistants Court, but mostly these are the records of the country court. Hartford County, Connecticut, County Court Minutes, Volumes 3 and 4, 1663-1687, 1697 is a valuable resource for those investigating the people of this place and time period. “The value of transcriptions of original records from the early periods of history goes without saying. This is an example of a job done with the highest standards. It is a source that must be checked for anyone researching the time period.” -- The Mayflower Descendant
About the Author: Helen Schatvet Ullmann, CG, FASG, is the author of Descendants of Peter Mills of Windsor, Connecticut, Formerly Named Pieter Wouterse vander Meulen (1989), for which she received the Donald Lines Jacobus award from the American Society of Genealogists, and A Mills and Kendall Family History (Newbury Street Press, 2002), for which she won the Brainerd T. Peck Award for Family History from the Connecticut Society of Genealogists.
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