Church Records

Church Records

First Church in Hartford - Historical records

Church records are an invaluable resource for the research you are doing on enslaved people. Because most were not literate, they did not leave many records. In West Hartford, the church kept track of births, deaths, marriages, baptisms, commitments to marry, and membership in the church. All of the entries here are from the West Hartford church - the Fourth Congregational Church of Hartford, now the First Congregational Church of West Hartford.

Go to the Connecticut State Library site and go to

• "Research" then to click MORE TOPICS
• "Genealogy Indexes" and then to
• "Church Records" in the blue window on the left.

The State Library site will then let you into Ancestry.com, where you can access these records. If you are at home, you will need your public library card to get in.

Ancestry.com. Connecticut, Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: 2013.

Original data: Connecticut. Church Records Index. Connecticut State Library, Hartford, Connecticut, Volume 122, Part 3 West Hartford, p.p. 397-399.