A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records, 1635-1700. (Volume #1)

By: Charles William Manwaring, Pub. 1904, reprinted 2025, 702 pages, index, E-BOOK, ISBN #978-1-63914-973-5. This book is derived from records of the General Court of the Colony of Connecticut and more importantly on probate records of the Hartford County Court. This volume #1 covers the years 1635-1700 with abstracts of wills, inventories, distributions of estates, and court records of the persons who settled here which embraced Hartford, Wethersfield, and Windsor. The Hartford probate district at one time or another covered approximately 40 towns. Residents of those towns had their wills proved in Hartford. This book not only contains transcriptions of those wills, but transcriptions of all related documents, including administration records, inventories of estates, records of estate distributions, and associated court records. The Index for this volume mentions approximately 5,500 persons.