Branford Family Genealogies

The following genealogies, listed alphabetically by surname, are available for research in the Reference Department at the Blackstone Library. Many of the titles are available online; those titles are listed below with a link.

• Genealogy Register of the Descendants of The Abbott Family, Rev. Abiel Abbott and Rev. Ephraim Abbott, Boston, James Monroe & Co., 1847
• The Adams Family, James Truslow Adams, Little, Brown & Co., New York, 1930
• The Allerton Family in the United States 1585-1885, Walter S. Allerton, Samuel Waters Allerton Co., Chicago, 1900
• A History and Genealogical Record of the Alling-Allens of New Haven, Connecticut,  George P. Allen, Price, Lee & Atkins, New Haven, 1889
• Atwater History and Genealogy, Francis Atwater, Journal Publishing Co., Meriden, 1901
• Family History and Genealogy of the Descendants of Robert Augur of New Haven Colony, Edwin P, Augur, Middletown, Connecticut, 1904
• The Averell-Averill-Avery Family, Clara A. Avery, 2 vols, Press of the Evangelical House, Cleveland
• Clockmakers of the Avery Family in Connecticut, Amos B. Avery, Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, 1987
• Baker Ancestry, Frank Baker, Chicago, 1914
• Balch Genealogy, Thomas Willing Balch, Allen Lane Publishing, Philadelphia, 1907
• The Descendants of Deacon Aaron Baldwin of North Branford, Connecticut 1724-1800, George E. Baldwin, Forestville, NY, 1907
• Memorial of John Denison Baldwin, Samuel E. Staples, Worcestor, Mass., 1884
• Roger Allister 1830-1860, William F. Hasse, New Haven, 1984
• Banning-Bradley and Allied Families, State Historical Society, Hartford, 1930
• Barker Genealogy, Elizabeth Frye Barker, Frye Publishing Co., NY, 1927
• Beach in America, Elmer T. Beach, Ilhing Brothers, Kallamazoo, Michigan, 1923
• The Barnes Family Yearbook, Trescott C. Barnes, vol 1, Grafton Press, NY, 1907
• In Memory of Alfred Smith Barnes, 1889
• The Barnes Family of Easthampton, Long Island, Richard Winkoop, Tobias A. Wright Printer, reprint from The New England Genealogical Register, 1906
• Betts Family History 1634-1958, Warren C. B. Robbins, Hampton Publishing Co, Inc., Concord, New Hampshire, 1959
• Record of the Descendants of John Bishop of Guilford, Connecticut, William Whitney Cone and George Allen Root, John Guy Bishop Publishing, Nyack, NY, 1951
• William Blackstone and His Relation to Massachusetts and Rhode Island, reprinted from The Churchman, Rev. B.F. DeCosta, Mallory & Co. Publishing, NY, 1880
• Lineage and History of William Blackstone, John Wilford Blackstone, Frederick, Wisconsin, 1907
• The William Blackstone Family, Nathaniel Brewster Blackstone, Homestead, Florida, 1974
• The Life of John Blackstone 1660-1743, Nathaniel Brewster Blackstone, Homestead, Florida, 1974
• The Blackstones, Origin of Their Name, Nathaniel Brewster Blackstone, Homestead, Florida 1974
• Rev. William Blackstone, John C. Crane, Charles R. Stobbs Printer, Worcester, 1896
• Blatchley Physicians and Pioneers, Descendants of Thomas Blatchley, Shirley Hathaway Stebbins, Gateway Press Inc., Baltimore, 1983
• The Ancestry and Allied Families of Nathan Blake, III and Susan Torrey Blake, early residents of East Cornith, Vermont by Elmira Torrey Blake Phenno-Gendrot, Stanhope Press, Boston, 1916
• Bliss and Holmes Descendants, Elinor Bliss Dayton and Arthur Bliss Dayton, New Haven Colony Historical Society, 1961
• Botsford Family Genealogy 1639-1939, vol 2, the line of Joseph
• Adventures in Ancestors, Eli Herbert Botsford, Botsford Family Association, Inc.
• Descendants of Isaac Bradley of Branford and East Haven, Connecticut 1650-1898, Leanard Abram Bradley, NY, 1917
• The Genealogy of the Brainerd Family in the United States, Rev. David D. Field, J.F. Trow Printer, NY, 1857
• The Descendants of John Brockett, Edward J. Brockett, Orange Chronicle Printers, East Orange, NY, 1905
• The Bromley Genealogy, Viola A. Bromley, Frederick H. Hitchcock Genealogy Publishing, NY, 1911
• Descendants of Joseph Brown, compiled by Barbara Brown Avery, 2005, typescript
• The Buckingham Family, Rev. F. W. Chapman, A.M. Case, Lockwood and Brainard, Hartford, 1872
• Nebraska Pioneer, William Butler Ancestry and Descendants, Melda Haynes Shippey, Cottonport, Louisisana, 1973
• The Champion Genealogy, Frances Bacon Trowbridge, Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor, New Haven, 1891
• William Chittenden of Guilford, Connecticut and His Descendants, Alvan Talcott, M.D., Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor, New Haven, 1882
• The Descendants of Nathaniel Clarke and His Wife Elizabeth Summerby of Newberry, Mass, George Kuhn Clarke, T.R. Marvin and Sons Printer, Boston, 1902
• Genealogy of Benjamin Cleveland, Horace Gillett Cleveland, Rand McNally & Co., Cleveland, 1879
• Coe-Ward Memorial and Immigrant Ancestors, Converse Publishing Co., 1897
• Lineal ancestors of Captain James Cory and of his descendants, Charles H. Cory, 1937
• Connecticut Yankee, Autobiography of Wilbur L. Cross, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1943
• Davis Family Record, Charles H.S. Davis, M.D., Meriden, 1867
• The Early Daytons and Descendants of Henry, Jr., Donald Lines Jacobus and Arthur Bliss Dayton, New Haven Colony Historical Society, New Haven, 1959
• Captain George & Lady Ann, The Denisons of Pequotsepos Manor by Williams Haynes, Pequot Press, 1963
• Captain George Denison by Eleanor E. Fuller, George and Ann Borodell Denison Society, 1941
• Family of Dickerman Ancestry, Edward Dwight Dickerman and George Sherwood Dickerman, Tuttle , Morehouse and Taylor, New Haven, 1897, with supplement and charts, 1922
• Dombrowski by Larry Kockler, self-published
• Edmund Dorman Family of New Haven, Connecticut, Dorothy Mae Dorman Howell Stroble and Lillian Ruth Dorman Malone, typescript
• Genealogy of the Male Descendants of Daniel Dod of Branford, Connecticut, Bethuel Dodd, M.D., and John R. Burnet, Daily Advertiser, Newark, NJ, 1864
• Family Record of Daniel Dod, Rev. Stephen Dodd, East Haven, 1839
• Genealogy of a Douglass-Donaldson Family, Ruth Cary Douglass, Gateway Press, 1996
• History of the Descendants of John Dwight of Dedham, Mass, Ben W. Dwight, vol 1, John F. Trow and Sons, NY, 1874
• New Haven Tercentenary 1638-1948, Memorial of Theophilus Eaton, George Dudley Seymour, Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor, New Haven, 1938
• Jonathan Edwards, Clarence H. Foust and Thomas H, Johnson, American Book Co., 1935
• The Descendants of William Edwards, vol 1, Capt. Elizur Yale Smith, reprint from New York Genealogical and Biographical Record
• Proceedings at the Reunion of the Descendants of John Elliot of Guilford, Connecticut, 1875
• Our Ellsworth Ancestors, German E. Ellsworth and Mary Smith Ellsworth, Utah Printing Co.
• Proceedings at the Reunion of the Descendants of John Elliot of Guilford, 2 vols, Frederick Clifton Pierce, Hammond Press, Chicago, 1901
• A Fitch Family History, John T. Fitch, Picton Press Camden, Maine, 1990
• Andrew Hull Foote, gunboat Commodore (1806-1863) by Allan Keller, Connecticut Civil War Centennial Commission
• Foote Family, Vol I. and Vol II. Abram W. Foote, Marble City Press, Rutland Vermont, 1907
• A Minister’s Wife in the American Revolution, Rebecca Foote of Branford, Roderick Terry
• Genealogy of the Descendants of James Fowler, 1964
• William Fowler, The Magistrate and One Line of His Descendants by William Chauncey Fowler
• Frisbie Family Bulletin, several binders
• The Frisbee-Frisbie Genealogy, Edward S. Frisbie, Albany, NY, 1919
• The Frisbee-Frisbie-Frisby Family, Olin E. Frisbee, 1964
• Edward Frisbie of Branford and His Descendants, Nora G. Frisbie, Gateway Press, Inc. Baltimore, vol. 1 in 1984, vol. 2 in 1987, vol. 3 in 1988
• The Fulton-Hayden-Warner Ancestry in America, Clarence Ettienne Leonard, Tobias A. Wright Printer, NY, 1923
• The Goodwins of Hartford, Connecticut, James Junius Goodwin, Brown and Gross, Hartford, 1891
• The Descendants of Edward Granniss, Frederick Augustus Strong, 1927, Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor, New Haven, 1927
• Genealogy of the Descendants of Jasper Griffing, Clara J. Stone, 1881
• Hallock Genealogy, Lucius H. Hallock, Orient, Long Island, NY, 1926
• Memoir of Charlotte Hamilton, Ambrose Edson, Camfield and Robins Publishing, Hartford, 1836
• A Daughter of Firenze, A Childhood in Italy, Rosamond Swan Hammer, Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor, New Haven, 1924
• A Tribute to Valdemar Thorvald Hammer 1868-1935, Charles R. Cooley
• The Puritan Forebears of Marvin B. and Caroline T. Harrison by Grace Harrison Swift, 1976
• The Hickok Genealogy Being Some of the Descendants of William Hickok of Farmington, Connecticut, Charles Nelson Hickok, Tuttle Publishing Co., Rutland,  Vermont, 1938
• Sketch of the Life and Public Service of the Honorable James Hillhouse, Rev. Leonard Bacon, New Haven, 1860
• A Family Record of the Descendants of Sergeant Edmund Hinman, R.R. Hinman, NY, 1856
• The Genealogy of the Hitchcock Family, Mrs. Edward Hitchcock, sr., Press of Carpenter and Morehouse, Amherst, Mass., 1894
• Hoadley Genealogy, typescript, 1977
• The Hoadley Genealogy, Francis Bacon Trowbridge, Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor, New Haven, 1894
• Thomas Hooker, George Leon Walker, Dodd, Doubleday and Mead Co., 1891
• Howe Family in America, Clinton A. Howe, Haywood, California, 1992
• Genealogy of the Ives Family, Arthur Coon Ives, Hungerford-Holbrook Co., Watertown, NY, 1932
• A Memorial of John S. Jameson, Theodore J. Holmes
• Keeler Family, Ralph Keeler of Norwalk, Connecticut and Some of His Descendants, Wesley B. Keeler, Gateway Press, Inc., Baltimore, 1985
• A Genealogy of the Descendants of William Kelsey, Edward A. Claypool and Azalea Clizbee, vol. 1, Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor, New Haven, vol. 1 in 1928, vol. 2 in 1929, vol. 3 in 1947
• The Lees of Virginia, Burton J. Hendrick, Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 1935
• The Family of William Leete, Edward L. Leete, Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor, New Haven, 1884
• The Ancestry of Abraham Lincoln, J. Henry Lea and J.R. Hutchinson, Houghton Miffin Co., Boston and NY, 1909
• The Diary of Malachi Linsley of Branford, Connecticut, transcribed 1993
• The Six Johns (Linsley), Ray Keyes Linsley, typescript, Bristol, Conn.
• The Descendants of Joseph Loomis, Elias Loomis, Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor, New Haven, 1875
• Certain Members of the Lord Family, Kenneth Lord, Rumford Press, Concord, New Hampshire, 1945
• Colonel Henry Luddington, Willis Fletcher Johnson, NY, 1907
• Maltby-Maltbie Family History, Dorothy Maltby Verrill, Birdsey L. Maltbie, New Jersey
• Marsh Genealogy, Dwight Whitney Marsh, Amherst, Mass., 1895
• The Mather Family, Kenneth Enoch Pond, Boston, 1844
• The Life and Times of Major John Mason 1600-1672, Louis B. Mason, G.P. Putnam’s & Sons, NY, 1935
• The Mathews Family of Connecticut and New Hampshire, typescript, State Historical Society
• Reunion of the Descendants of Nathaniel Merriman, Donald Lines Jacobus, New Haven, 1914
• A Life and Brief Account of the Patriotic Services of Jonathan Mix of New Haven, William Phipps Blake, Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor, New Haven, 1886
• Genealogy of the Morris Family, Mrs. Lucy Ann (Morris) Carhart, A.S. Barnes Co., NY, 1911
• Lineal Ancestry of Rhoda (Axtell) Cory, vol. 2, 2 parts
• Lineal Ancestry of Susan (Mulford) Corey, vol. 3, 2 parts
• Lineal Ancestry of Susan (Kitchell) Mulford, vol. 4, 2 parts
• A Munsey-Hopkins Genealogy, D.O.S. Lowell, Boston, 1920
• Rev. Roger Newton, Caroline Gaylord Newton, 1912
• Some Descendants of John Norton from Branford, Walter Whittlesey Norton, Journal Press, Lakeville, Conn., 1909
• George Page of Branford, Connecticut, Edith (Moyer) Page, 1977
• The Descendants of Robert Page, Colonel George W. Page, Center for Graphic Communication, Inc., Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1992
• The Genealogy of One Line of William Palmer of Wethersfield and Westchester, New York, David A. Palmer
• Pierson Genealogical Records collected and compiled by Lizzie B. Pierson of Andover, Mass.
• The Life of Henry Bradley Plant, G. Hutchinson Smyth, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, NY, 1898
• The House of Plant, George S. Dickerman, Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor, New Haven, 1900
• The Plants in Branford, typescript
• Some Kind of Paradise, Mark Derr, William Morrow & Co., 1989, NY, 1989 (development of Florida including data on Henry Bradley Plant)
• Henry Bradley Plant in Florida, Dudley S. Johnson, Oct 1966, Florida Historical Quarterly
• The Descendants of John Porter, George W. Ball Publishing, Saratoga Springs, NY, 1882
• Porter Family Record, Cyrus Kinne Porter, Buffalo, NY
• William Pynchon, Merchant and Colonizer by Ruth A. McIntyre, Connecticut Valley Historical Museum, 1961
• Rogers Family Descendants, compiled by Barbara Brown Avery, 2005, typescript
• Rogers-Ward-Shipman and Allied Families, Harold I. Mayer, MD, and others, Chicago
• Rockwell Harmon Potter, First Church of Christ, Hartford
• Genealogical History of the Redfield Family in the United States, John Howard Redfield, Albany : Munsell & Rowland, New York : Richardson, 1860.
• James Rogers of New London, Connecticut, James Swift Rogers, 1902
• The Rogers Family Remembered, Bryant Winstanley Rogers, 1998
• Descendants of Robert Rose, Christine Rose, Braun Mumfield, Inc., Michigan, 1983
• Russell Family, typescript
• Ancestry of Alfred Russell and Caroline Harrison, Alfred Lovell Russell, typescript, 1928
• A Genealogical Register of the Descendants of John Scranton of Guilford, Connecticut, Rev. Erastus Scranton, Case Tiffany and Co., Hartford, 1855
• Samuel Seabury, Priest and Physician, Herbert Thoms, MD, Shoestring Press, Hamden Conn., 1963
• Miles to Go Before I Sleep, Samuel Seabury’s Journal, Ann W. Rowthorn, Church Missions Publishing Co., Hartford, 1982
• The Seymour Genealogy, July 1918, reprint from New England Genealogical and Historical Register
• Puritan Migration to Connecticut, The Seymour Family, Malcolm Seymour, Phoenix Pub, Canaan, New Hampshire, 1982
• The Shepard Family of New England, Gerald Faulkner Shepard, New Haven Colony Historical Society, New Haven, 1971, 3 vols
• Shepard Genealogy, typescript
• Rev. John Sherman (scrapbook of newspaper articles)
• Old Silltown, Sarah Sill Welles Burt, W. Griswold Burt, 1912
• Memories and Traditions (Starkweather Family), Jane S. Baldwin, Rosehill, Waterbury, Connecticut, 1902
• John Steevens of Guilford, Connecticut, Claude Willis Barlow, Clark University, Worcester, Mass., 1976
• The Family of John Stone, William L. Stone II, Joel Munsell’s Sons Publishing, Albany, NY, 1888
• The Family of John Stone, Truman Lewis Stone, Charles Welles Boulton, Buffalo, 1898
• The Street Genealogy, Henry A. Street, Jon Templeton Printer, Newsletter Press, Exeter, New Hampshire, 1895
• Extracts from the Records of Colchester, Charles M. Taintor, Case, Lockwood and Co., Hartford, 1864 (Taintor Family)
• The Genealogy and History of the Taintor Family, Charles M. Taintor, Greenfield, Mass., 1847
• Herbert E. Thatcher, funeral service, First Congregational Church, Branford, Connecticut, 1939
• Townsend Heritage, Doris B. Townsend, New Haven Colony Historical Society, 1971
• The Townsend Family, Charles Herving Townsend, Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor, New Haven, 1884
• The Trowbridge Family, Rev. F.W. Chapman, Punderson Crisend and Co., New Haven, 1872
• John Trumbull Genealogy (chart)
• Jonathan Trumbull, Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1919
• Jonathan Trumbull, Glenn Weber, Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, 1956
• American Backlogs, the Story of Gertrude Tyler and Family, Mrs. Theodore Rossevelt and Kermit Rossevelt, Charles Scribner’s and Sons, NY, 1928
• The Tyler Genealogy, Willard I. Tyler Brigham, Cornelius B. Tyler Publisher, NJ, 1912 vol 1 and vol 2
• The Tyler Genealogy, Willard I. Tyler Brigham and Calvin Seabrick Tyler, 3 vols, Calvin Seabrick Tyler Co., Grand Rapids, Michigan, vol. 3, 1976
• Tyler Families of Early Branford, typescript, Frederick T. Lawton, 1951
• The Upson Family of America, Upson Family Association, Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor, New Haven, 1940
• Descendants of Henry Wallbridge, William Gedney Wallbridge, Franklin Printing Co., Philadelphia, 1898
• Wardwell, The Life and Times and Thomas and William Wardwell, Marjorie Wardwell Otten, Delmar, 1985
• The Pedigree and History of the Washington Family, Albert Welles, New York  Historical Society Library, 1879
• History of the Weld Family, Charlotte Weld Fowler, Hilton and King Printers, Middletown, Conn., 1879
• John Whitehead of New Haven and Branford, James Shepard, reprinted from NEHGR, 1902
• The Wilfords of Branford, Elizabeth Hitchcock Gregory, 1975
• Willis Family of New England, Charles Ethel Burt Willis and Francis Caroline Willis, Witman and Garrett, Inc., Richmond, Virginia, 1917
• Winchester Notes, Mrs. Fanny Winchester Hotchkiss, Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor, New Haven, 1912
• The Yale Family, Elihu Yale, Store and Stone Printers, New Haven, 1850
• Yale Genealogy, Rodney Horace Yale, Beatrice, Nebraska, 1908
• Lineal Ancestry of Rufus Rennington Young and Jane Bosburth Young, 1937