Acton Public Library Collection
Compilations
"Vital Records of Saybrook Colony 1635-1860" including the towns of Chester, Deep River, Essex, Old Saybrook, and Westbrook assembled under the direction of Elizabeth B. Plimpton, 1985. surname index. REF 929.37466 VIT.
"Genealogies of Connecticut Families; from the New England Historical and Genealogical Registers" selected and introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts, 1983. 3 volume set. REF 929.2 GEN.
"The Founders of Old Saybrook Colony and Their Descendants 1635-1985" compiled by the Old Saybrook Founders Committee, Elaine F. Staplins, chairman, 1985. REF 974.602.
"Saybrook Genealogies" by Harriet Chesebrough, 386 pp in three volumes. Handwritten sketches and genealogies of some of the earliest settlers of Old Saybrook, CT. A photocopy in four volumes is available for library use. REF 929 CHE CASE.
"Commemorative Biographical Record of Middlesex County, Connecticut" containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and of many of the early settled families. 1903, ill, surname index. 974.6 COMM.
"Passengers to America", a consolidation of ship passenger lists from the New England Historical and Genealogical Registers edited by Michael Tepper, 1988, 554 pp., surname index. REF
Genealogies and Family Histories
"The Chapman Family: or the Descendants of Robert Chapman, One of the First Settlers of Say-Brook, Conn." with genealogical notes of William Chapman, Edward Chapman, John Chapman, and Rev. Benjamin Chapman by Rev. F. W. Chapman, 1854 (reprint), 414 pp, surnam index. REF 929.2 CHAPMAN CASE.
"Genealogy of the Descendants of William Chesebrough of Boston, Rehobath, Mass." by Anna Chesebrough Wildey. 686 pp, ill, 1903. 929.1 CHE.
"The Doolittle Family in America Part I" compiled by William Frederick Doolittle, 1901 (reprint), 730 pp. REF 929.2 DOOLITTLE CASE.
"The Gardiner Family and the Lordship and Manor of Gardiner Island by David Gardiner, 1892. REF 292 GARDINER CASE.
"Lions in My Lineage" by Glenn L. Gardiner, 1958, 219 pp, ill. Descendants of Lion Gardiner of Saybrook Fort including a brief nine generation family tree showing direct descent to the author. Biographies, Gardiner.
"Gifford Genealogy 1626 - 1896" by Harry E. Gifford. 1896, reprinted 1993. Vertical file under "Genealogy", a second copy is in the CASE.
"The Hart Dynasty of Old Saybrook" by Marion Hepburn Grant, 1981. 929.2 GRA. Additional copies are in the CASE.
"Joseph Ingham and His Descendants 1639-1933" by Samuel Ingham, 1871, reprinted with notes on the Ayer and Northrop families by Charles S. Ingham, 1933, 69 pp. Also a second edition covering the period 1639-1948, 1948, 71 pp, and a third volume, possibly an earlier edition, dated 1871 and titled "The Ingham Family: on Joseph Ingham and his descendants 1639-1871". REF 929.2 ING CASE.
"The Pratt Family: or the Descendants of Lieut. William Pratt" by Frederick W. Chapman. 419 pp., ill., 1964. REF 929.2 CHAPMAN CASE. Errata added by James R. Crozier, 5 pp, no date.
"The Torbron Family" by Karen Torbron Ristic, Raymond Peter Ristic, and Dorothy Torbron Flanagan, 1993, 368 pp, surname index. REF 929.2 FOWLER CASE.
"The History of the Weld Family, from 1632 to 1878" by Charlotte Weld Fowler, 1879. Reprint. REF 929.2 FOWLER CASE.
"Memorial of the Whittlesey Family in the United States" published by the Whittlesey Association, 1855, 125 pp, surname index. REF 929.2 MEMORIAL CASE.
"The Genealogy of the Whittelsey-Whittlesey Family" compiled by Charles Barney Whittlesey, 1898 (reprint), ill, 414 pp, surname index. Third edition combining the 1898 and 1941 editions, 1992, 896 pp, ill, surname index. REF 929.9 WHITTEL CASE.
"From Generation to Generation: an Ancestral Record" by Herman Churchill, 1925, 31 pp. REF 929.2 CHURCHILL CASE.
Other Works
"Headstone Inscriptions: Town of Old Saybrook, Connecticut to 1934" copied by E. A. Goullin as part of the Charles Hale Collection, 1934. The complete Collection may be found at the Connecticut State Library. 115 pp including surname index. REF 929.4 HEA CASE.
"New England Cemeteries: A Collector's Guide" by Andrew Kull, 1975. 253 pp, ill. 917.4 KUL.
"In the Land of Patentees - Saybrook in Connecticut" published by the Saybrook Tercentenary Committee and the Acton Public Library, 1935, 85 pp. REF CASE.
"Old Saybrook High School Yearbooks" for the years 1942-48, 52-56, 58, 60, 62-66, 69-72, 74, 75, 80, 83, 84, 85, 87, 89-96. REF 371.89 76 MIL CASE.
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