RESOURCES
FOR GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH IN PLAINFIELD, CT
Town
Hall
8
Community Ave.
Plainfield,
CT 06374
Town
Clerk’s Phone # (860) 230-3010
The
Town Clerk has Vital Records (Birth, Marriages & Deaths) from
1699 up to the current time.
Also, Land Records (Deed), Sexton (Burial) Records, & the
Hale Collection of Cemetery Records.
Probate
Office
8
Community Ave.
Plainfield,
CT 06374
Phone # (860) 230-3031
Probate
Records from May 1747 to the present time. Before that they were in
Hartford & New London May 1666 to Oct. 1719 then Windham,
Oct. 1719 to May1747.
The following towns are or have been included within the Plainfield
Probate District:
Brooklyn - May 1786 to June 4, 1833
Canterbury - May 1747 to May
27, 1835
Killingly - May 1747 to June
4, 1830
Plainfield - May 1747 to date
Pomfret - May 1747 to May 1752
Sterling - May 1794 to June
17, 1852
Voluntown May 1747 to June 4, 1830
The
Killingly Historical Society
196
Main ST , P.O. Box 6000
Danielson,
CT 06239
Phone # (860) 779-7250
Hours:
Wed. & Sat.
10am to 4pm
They
have the largest collection of genealogical information in Northeastern
CT for Windham County.
Items
of specific interest to Plainfield researchers:
Plainfield
Births, Marriages & Deaths on microfilm 1699 to 1905
Denison
Funeral Home Records 1888-1929
St.
Paul’s Church Records 1856-1873
Plainfield Congregational
Church Records 1747-1832
Moosup Methodist Church Records
1842-1932
Union
Baptist Church Records 1792-1988
Hale
Collection of Cemetery Records
Dougherty
Brothers Funeral Home Records 1929-1983
History
of Plainfield Academy by Rev. R. Burleigh, taken from the Windham County
Transcript 1873-74
Northeastern
Conn. Town Meeting Records Vol. 1 has excerpts from the Plainfield town
meeting records 1720-1820
Marriages & Deaths from
Providence, RI Newspapers 1768-1832
Index
to Plainfield Probate that was given to the State Library in Hartford 1747-1854
Manuel Kinne’s Death Records
1799-1818
Miscellaneous
Items from Land Records
Unidentified
Epitaphs in the Old Plainfield Cemetery
by Sarah Dorrance
Rev.
Henry Robinson’s Notes 18th
& 19th century
Packerville
Baptist Church Records 1828-1927
Full
Circle, A Directory of Native & African Americans in Windham County and
Vicinity, 1650-1900 by Marcella Pasay
Windham
County, CT County Court Records Vol 1, 1726-1732 by Marcella Pasay
Windham
County, CT County Court Records Vol. 2, 1732-1736 by Marcella
Pasay
Family
Secrets, 18th & 19th Century Birth Records
Found in the Windham County, CT
County
Court
Records & Files at the Connecticut State Library Archives, Hartford,
CT by
Marcella Pasay
Bayles
History of Windham County (indexed)
Beers
Genealogical & Biographical Records of Tolland & Windham
Counties (indexed)
Larned’s
History
of Windham County
Lincoln’s
2 volume History of Windham County (Vol. 2 indexed)
Windham
County Census Records 1790 - 1930
The
Connecticut State Library
231
Capitol Ave.
Hartford,
CT 06106
Phone # (860) 757-6580
website-
CT State Library
They
have an extensive collection of published and archival material on the
history & genealogy of CT and its people.
State-wide indexes to the Barbour Collection of Vital Records,
Hale Collection of Gravestones, Newspaper Marriages & Deaths, Probate,
church records, family records and much more.
Plainfield
Manuscripts at the State Library -
1st
Congregational Church 1747-1899 On Microfilm
Central
Village Congregational Church 1846-1941 On Microfilm
Daniel
Hubbard to William Robinson-Deed Feb. 16, 1787 974.62, L89h mv
Deed
from Maj. Fitch to Richard Adams- May 1, 1705
974.61, W72, mv
Kennedy,
Robert & John, day book (3 vols.) 1794-99, 1796-97
974.62, P6972k, mv
Moosup
Methodist Episcopal Church 1842-1932
On Microfilm (cannot read it)
Moosup
Union Baptist Church 1792-1931
On Microfilm
Morgan
& Bacon papers-deeds, estate papers, etc. (257 docs.) 1729-1875,
974.62, C155m, mv
Packerville
Baptist Church 1828-1928 On
Microfilm
Plainfield
Academy (from Transcript-Historical notes) 1 pamphlet 1873-74,
974.62,
qP699p, mv
Plainfield
Historical Society Records 1820-1933
Archives, RG 112
Rev.
War Records-extracts 1774-1784
973.3, fR326p, mv
Robert
Kennedy’s notebook: trip to California 1850
920, K386, mv
Spaulding,
Ezekiel, Rev. War orderly book (2st Reg. 12th Co.) 1 Vol.
1762-1776,
973.26,
c76, vault 1
Town
Meetings 1 Vol.
1699-1748 974.62,
P69tm, mv
Wauregan
Baptist Church 1856-1941 On
Microfilm
Genealogy
links:
You
will find births, marriages & deaths, cemetery
records, newspapers, queries, and you can also go to the Plainfield
page and many good links from there.
list
of collections, genealogical reference materials, on-line exhibits
links
to towns including Griswold, Voluntown, etc.
Finnish-
American grave markers and cemeteries
in the U.S. including many
in
Windham and New London Counties, CT
1636-1776 - a digital collection by the staff of the University of Connecticut
Libraries
