New Haven County Court Records: Colonial & National History

For additional print resources, please see a librarian or search our catalog.

• Bowler, Clara Ann. “Carted Whores and White Shrouded Apologies: Slander in the County Courts of Seventeenth-Century Virginia.” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 85, no. 4 (October 1977): 411-426. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4248161. 

• DeBrincat, Dominic. “‘All Dregs of the Said Distemper’: Containing Smallpox and Religious Dissent in Colonial Connecticut.” Connecticut History Review 58, no. 2 (2019): 3. https://doi.org/10.5406/connhistrevi.58.2.0003. 

• Destler, Chester M. “Newtown and the American Revolution.” Connecticut History Review 20 (January 1979): 6-26. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44369983. 

• Engelhardt, Eliasz. “Apoplexy, Cerebrovascular Disease, and Stroke: Historical Evolution of Terms and Definitions.” Dementia & Neuropsychologia 11, no. 4 (2017): 449-453. https://doi.org/10.1590/1980-57642016dn11-040016. 

• Gaskins, Richard. “Changes in the Criminal Law in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut.” The American Journal of Legal History 25, no. 4 (1981): 309-342. https://doi.org/10.2307/845276. 

• Gilbert, G. A. “The Connecticut Loyalists.” The American Historical Review 4, no. 2 (January 1899): 273-291. https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/1833556.pdf. 

• Hermes, Katherine A. and Caruso, Beth M. “Between God and Satan: Thomas Thornton, Witch-Hunting, and Religious Mission in the English Atlantic World, 1647–1693.” Connecticut History Review 61, no. 2 (2022): 42-82. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.5406/26395991.61.2.04.

• McGrath, Stephen P. “Connecticut’s Contrarians: The Loyalists of Fairfield County.” Connecticut History Review 54, no. 2 (2015): 243-255. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44370299. 

• Moogk, Peter N. “‘Thieving Buggers’ and ‘Stupid Sluts’: Insults and Popular Culture in New France.” The William and Mary Quarterly 36, no. 4 (October 1979): 524-547. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.2307/1925182. 

• Shepard, James. “The Tories of Connecticut.” The Connecticut Quarterly IV, no. 2 (April, May, June 1898). https://www.sarconnecticut.org/the-tories-of-connecticut/. 

• Sprott, S. E. “The Puritan Problem of Suicide.” Dalhousie Review 37, no. 2 (1957): 222-233. http://hdl.handle.net/10222/58777. 

• Stannard, David E. “Death and Dying in Puritan New England.” The American Historical Review 78, no. 5 (December 1973): 1305-1330. https://doi.org/10.2307/1854094. 

General Research Guides

Research guides compiled by the Connecticut State Library.

Town and State Records

Currency

Information about American and pre-American colonial monetary systems.

Language and Grammar

Information about language and grammar conventions in colonial America.

Laws

Information about various laws in colonial and early American Connecticut.

Names

Information about common names and naming conventions during the colonial and early American periods.

Religion

Information about religion and the role it played in colonial and early American communities.

Revolutionary War

Information about Patriots and Loyalists in Connecticut during the American Revolution.

Witchcraft

Information about witchcraft panics and prosecutions in Connecticut.

Other Items of Interest

Genealogy

Laws