Resources Used

Resources (presented in order of appearance in biography):

Guilford Town Records. Theophilus Earmark. Ancestry.com. Web November 2021.

Connecticut Vital Records for Guilford, Pre-1870 (Barbour Collection). No Surname listing, p. 326. 

Petition from the Town of Guilford. Native Northeast Portal. Web October 2021.

Brown, Barbara and James Rose, Black Roots in Southeastern Connecticut, 1650-1900. New London: 2001, New London Historical Society, Pub., pp. 538 and 544.

Andler-Dousman, Caroline K. Descendants of Manghaughwant. Genealogy.com. Web November 2021.

Mancini, Jason, New London’s Indian Mariners, connecticuthistory.org (Philip Tantipinant/Indian Mariner). Web October 2021.

Talcott, Mary, Sherman Adams, Forrest Morgan. Talcott Papers: Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society, Volume V.  (Hartford, 1896). Web November 2021. 

Confirmation of Uncas’ Deed, Yale Indian Papers Project. Web November 2021.

Squire Thomas Hodgkin House, Madison Historical Society Historical Plaque Presentation for 176 Horse Pond Road, Madison, CT. Architectural Survey by James Sexton, PhD, Archival Research by Lynn Friedman. 2013.

Holloway, Joseph E., ed., Chapter by Robert Farris Thompson, Africanisms in American Culture  (Indiana University Press, 1991), p. 154.

Connecticut Vital Records for Guilford, Pre-1870 (Barbour Collection). No Surname listings, p. 326. 

Probate Court. Guilford and Madison. Records of the Probate Court of Guilford and Madison, CT. Madison, CT.  (Thomas Hodgkin’s will, 1751, revised 1753, inventory.  Abigail Hodgkin will, 1760) 

Guilford Town Clerk. Property Records. Guilford, CT. (Various Dates) 

Probate Court. Guilford and Madison. Records of the Probate Court of Guilford and Madison, CT. Madison, CT.  

Online Etymology Dictionary: Niger. etymologyonline.com. Web April 2022.

Connecticut, U.S. Church Records Abstracts, 1630-1921. (Eliab Niger) Ancestry.com. Web February 2022. 

U.S. Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 (Phillip Niger, 6th Regiment). Ancestry.com. Web March 2022.

Revolutionary War Service Records: Compiled service records of soldiers who served in the American Army during the Revolutionary War, 1775-1783. National Archives. Theos Niger and Philup Niger. Web fold3.com. 

Eli Foote Portage Bill (Theophilus Niger payment). September 1790. 

Guilford Town Clerk. Property Records. Guilford, CT. (Various Dates.) 

Dunham Wilcox Deeds. Killingworth Land Record. Dunhamwilcox.net. Web February 2021.

Connecticut, U.S, Church Records Abstracts 1630-1920 - Madison (Death record for Eliab Niger). Ancestry.com.  Web October 2021. 

Connecticut, U.S. Wills and Probate Records, 1609-1999 (Phillip Niger of Montville, probated in Hartford). Ancestry.com. Web October 2021.

Connecticut Church Records Abstracts, 1630-1920 - Saybrook (Birth, Marriage, Death, Baptism records for Theophilus and Submit Niger family). Ancestry.com. Web October 2021.  

Saybrook Property Records. Ancestry.com. Web October 2021.   

Martin, C.J., “‘The Mustard Seed’: Providence’s Alfred Niger, Antebellum Black Voting Rights Activist,” The Online Review of Rhode Island History. Smallstatebighistory.com. Web February 2022.

“Alfred Niger.” Wikipedia.com. Web. April 2022.

Printers and Printing in Providence, 17620-1907. Prepared by a committee of Providence Typographical Union Number 33 as a souvenir of the 50th anniversary of the institution. (Providence, 1907).