The town of New Fairfield is situated in the northern part of Fairfield County. It's bounded on the north by Sherman, on the east by Litchfield County and the town of Brookfield, on the south by Danbury and on the west by Putnam County, New York.

The town was granted to twelve proprietors, who purchased 31,000 acres of land from Chief Squantz of the Scatacook Indians.These proprietors made a division and allotment of the land and surveyed it about 1736-1737. The town of New Fairfield was incorporated in 1740. It is now a town of about 13,000 citizens.

Among the early residents were Medack Rogers, Jeroe Scudder, Thomas Burse, the Beasleys, the Penfields, the Treadwells and Amos R. Stevens.The Kelloggs were early and prominent settlers. [1]

New Fairfield Probate Office
4 Brush Hill Road, New Fairfield, CT 06812
203-746-8160

Hours: Wednesday and Thursday,; 9:00 am to 12 noon EST
Probate Records: 1975 to Present
Parent District: Danbury

• The Connecticut State Library has received most Probate records prior to 1850. Pre-1850 records are also available on microfilm .
• Land Records are recorded and indexed by the town clerk of each town and may be reviewed at town halls.
• The Connecticut State Library has microfilm of copies of deeds, mortgages, releases and related records to about 1900. Grantor and grantee indexes are available, but there is no statewide index.

• Balls Pound Cemetery
• Congregational Cemetery
  
• Gerow Cemetery
  
• Methodist Cemetery
  
• Mountain View Cemetery
  
• New Fairfield Cemetery
  
• Old Cemetery Cemetery
• Union Cemetery

The Hale Collection of Connecticut Cemetery Inscriptions (1600's to 1930's)
is available through The Connecticut State Library

The Association of Gravestone Studies
30 Elm Street
Worcester MA 01609
(508) 831-7753

• New Fairfield Congregational Church
  • Old Church Records
    20 Gillotti Rd 
    New Fairfield, CT 
    (203) 746-2865 
    
• New Fairfield United Methodist 
  1 Beaver Bog Rd 
  New Fairfield, CT 
  (203) 746-3725
• St Edward's Roman Catholic Church
  Route 39 
  New Fairfield, CT 
  (203) 746-2200 
• Good Shepherd Lutheran
  2 Colonial Rd 
  New Fairfield, CT 
  (203) 746-9022
• United Methodist Church 
  1 Beaver Bog Rd 
  New Fairfield, CT 
  (203) 746-6069 

Connecticut Society of Genealogists
PO Box 435
Glastonbury, CT 06033-0435
(203) 569-00002

•  Fairfield County Weekly
• Local News for the Brookfield, Bethel and Danbury area

Sudol, Joan L. Gone, but Not Forgotten; Epitaphs of New Fairfield Connecticut. (1982)

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