Research
Resource Links
Resource Links
- Connecticut State Library
- Resources for studying African-American Heritage at the CT State Library
- Noah Webster House & West Hartford Historical Society Witness Stones
- West Hartford Early Marriage Records 1727-1776
- Manwaring, Probate Records
- Manwaring - links to 3 volumes of CT Probate Records 1636-1750
- Bearing Witness to the Hard History of Guilford - Teaching Tolerance
- Lies My Bookshelf Told Me: Slavery in Children’s Literature
Primary Sources
Primary Sources
- Connecticut Runaways
- Runaway slave advertisement databases
- Freedom on the Move : A database of fugitives from American Slavery
- The Atlantic Slave Trade in Two Minutes - ( NEW )
- Public records of the Colony of CT, 1636-1776
Online database O say Can You See
This site documents the challenge to slavery and the quest for freedom in early Washington, D.C., by collecting, digitizing, making accessible, and analyzing freedom suits filed between 1800 and 1862, as well as tracing the multigenerational family networks they reveal.
Search Historic Hartford Courant Database
Search Historic Hartford Courant Database
Click on Research IT - select Newspapers then Hartford Courant – Historical (1764-1922) (provided by ProQuest)*
Click on Research IT - select Newspapers then Hartford Courant – Historical (1764-1922) (provided by ProQuest)*
at home you will need your library card to access
Connecticut Courant and Weekly Intelligencer (1778-1791); Hartford, Conn. [Hartford, Conn]08 Apr 1783: 3.