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Cemetery Records


Headstone Inscriptions for the Town of Eastford, Connecticut
copied by Charles R. Hale March 1933.
Online Version Generously donated by Jan Harris and
hosted by Elaine Merrell.
View full details by clicking on cemetery name.

Abandoned Cemetery located in Pilcher District (not used), So. Part of town
Deane Cemetery located on road from Sibley Corner to Ashford (not used)
DeRiva Cemetery located in Phoenixville (private)

Grove Cemetery located � mile south of Eastford Village on state road

Lambert Cemetery located in the State Forest.

Latham Cemetery located in Phoenixville (private)
Gen. Lyon Cemetery located in Phoenixville

North Ashford Cemetery located in north part of town.
Old Cemetery located just west of Eastford Village

Palmer-Lewis Cemetery located on road from Sibley Corner to Ashford (not used)

Snow-Spaulding Cemetery located in Phoenixville (private)

Trowbridge Cemetery located on former farm of Henry Trowbridge near Eastford Village

Weeks Cemetery located on farm of Frederick Buhler, south part of town



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Online Pictures/Infotrmation
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Some Eastford Church Records
    Church of Christ (Eastford, Connecticut) :
    church records 1778-1803
    Main Author: Card, Lester L. (Lester Lawson) , 1872-1951
    LDS FHL US/CAN Film 1008341 Item 2


    Baptist Church (Eastford, Connecticut)
    Church records, 1850-1938
    Main Author: Baptist Church
    *originals were at the Connecticut State Library in Hartford, Connecticut. Includes articles of faith and covenant, meetings 1850-1938, admissions and dismissions in reports of meetings, annotated lists of members, accounts 1867-1908, and miscellaneous memoranda.
    *This church was organized in 1794 as Ashford Fourth, or Baptist Church at North Ashford.
    LDS FHL US/CAN Film 4188


    Congregational Church (Eastford, Connecticut)
    Church records, 1777-1941
    Main Author: Congregational Church
    *originals were at the Connecticut State Library in Hartford, Connecticut.
    Contents:
    v. 1 bounds of the society of Eastford 1777; society meetings 1778-1795, pew holders.
    v. 2 society meetings 1795-1902, church meetings 1902-1912.
    v. 3 confession of faith and covenant, church meetings 1778-1865, communicants 1778-1872, baptisms 1779-1868.
    v. 4 admissions and dismissions 1808-1935, deaths 1858-1928, church meetings 1867-1894, marriages 1859-1923.
    v. 5 church meetings 1913-1941.
    Eastford Society was established in Ashford by the division of the First Society. A part of Ashford, including this society, was incorporated May 1847, as Eastford. The Church was organized on September 23rd, 1778, with Andrew Judson as its first settled minister.
    LDS FHL US/CAN Film 4187


    Eastford Methodist Episcopal Church (Eastford, Connecticut)
    Church records, 1834-1916
    Main Author: Eastford Methodist Episcopal Church
    *original records were in the School of Theology Library, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts.
    *Includes baptisms (1854-1876, 1896-1915), marriages (1869-1879, 1900-1915), deaths (1900-1915), membership records, pastors and other church records.
    LDS FHL US/CAN Film 1508864 Item 4




Eastford Baptist Church (formerly North Ashford Baptist Church)- (MF); 1850-1938




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History


Eastford, the biography of a New England town
by Cameron, Diane Maher; with introduction and supplement by Harold D. Carpenter
Eastford Historical Society
Notes: Bibliography: p. 152-154.
Publication: Eastford, Conn. : Eastford Historical Society, c 1976
Physical: xii, 180 p. : ill., fold. map (in pocket);
OCLC # ocm02967853
LDS Call Number 974.645/E1 H2c
LOC CALL NUMBER: F104.E33 C35
LOC LC Control Number: 76151493 Type of Material: Book(Print, Microform, Electronic, etc.)23cm
CT State Library Call Number: 974.62 Ea79ce

Town of Eastford, Centennial, 1847-1947
Notes: Microreproduction of original published: Eastford, Conn. : Eastford Centennial Committee, 1947. 95 p.
Format: Books/Monographs (On Fiche)
Publication: Salt Lake City
Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1983
Physical: 1 microfiche : ill. ; 11 x 15 cm.
LDS FHL US/CAN Fiche 6019494



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Land Records


Land records, 1847-1909
Authors: Eastford Town Clerk
Notes: Microfilm of original records in the Town Hall, Eastford, Connecticut.
Includes indexes in each volume.
Format: Manuscript (On Film)
Publication: Salt Lake City :
Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1949, 1983, 1986
LDS Film on 6 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.


Land records, v. 1-3(p.81) 1847-1864FHL US/CAN Film 1378038
Land records, v. 1 (another filming) 1847-1854FHL US/CAN Film 4186 Item 2
Land records, v. 3(p. 80)-5(p.259) 1856-1878FHL US/CAN Film 1378039
Land records, v. 5(p.258)-6 1872-1887FHL US/CAN Film 1378040
Land records, v. 7(p.1-521) 1886-1901FHL US/CAN Film 1451012
Land records, v. 7(p.520)-8 1888-1909FHL US/CAN Film 1451013



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Maps


ALL NEW -- Map of EASTFORD 185- - Transcribed by D Putnam. Lots of Names.

Online USGS Maps from UNH Large files, but show houses, roads, etc.

Putnam, Conn. area street map-directory; including: towns of Thompson,Woodstock, Pomfret, Eastford 1970
LC Control Number: 75692268
Type of Material: Cartographic Material
Brief Description: Town Maps Publishing Co.
Putnam, Conn. area street map-directory; including: towns of Thompson, Woodstock, Pomfret, Eastford. [New Britain, Conn., 1970] map on sheet 56 x 74 cm. fold. to 28 x 19 cm.
LOC CALL NUMBER: G3784.P92 1970 .T6

Putnam, Conn. area street map-directory; including: towns of Thompson,Woodstock, Pomfret, Eastford 1979
LC Control Number: 82693289
Type of Material: Cartographic Material
Brief Description: Town Maps Publishing Co.
Putnam, Conn., area : including towns of Thompson, Woodstock, Pomfret, Eastford. Rev. ... 8-79. New Britain, Conn. : Town Maps Pub. Co., [1979] 3 maps on 1 sheet : both sides ; 40 x 35 cm. or smaller, sheet 57 x 74 cm., folded to 25 x 10 cm.
LOC CALL NUMBER: G3784.P9 1979 .T6


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Probate Records


Probate records, 1849-1923
Connecticut Probate Court (Eastford District)
Notes: Microfilm of original records in the Town Hall, Eastford, Connecticut.
Indexes are included within most volumes.
Format: Manuscript (On Film)
Publication: Salt Lake City
Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1949, 1983
LDS on 4 microfilm reels ; 35 mm

Probate records v. 1 1849-1868FHL US/CAN Film 4186 Item 1
Probate records v. 1-4(p.1-400) 1849-1883FHL US/CAN Film 1378043
Probate records v. 4(p.400-end)-7 1883-1911FHL US/CAN Film 1378044
Probate records v. 8 1911-1923FHL US/CAN Film 1378045



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Vital Records


The Barbour Collection - Eastford Records
Online Version Generously donated by Jan Harris
View Surnames A - L
View Surnames M - Y

The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records
by White, Lorraine Cook
Volume 9:
Durham, 1708-1852; Eastford, 1847-1851; East Haddam, 1743-1857 ;
Volume 9 is a transcription of the vital records of the towns of Durham, Eastford, and East Haddam, and it contains the birth, marriage, and death records of approximately 38,000 individuals. Entries are in strict alphabetical order by town and give, typically, name, date of event, names of parents, names of children, names of both spouses, and items such as age, occupation, and residence. As in all volumes published to date, entries are keyed to the volume and page number of the original records.
Published: Baltimore, Md. :
Genealogical Pub. Co., c1994-*
LOC LC Call No.: F104.A58W48 1994
Dewey No.: 929/.37464 20
ISBN: 080631544X (v. 9)

Records of births, marriages, and deaths, v. 1-4, 1847-1915
Authors: Eastford (Connecticut). Registrar of Vital Statistics (Main Author)
Eastford (Connecticut). Town Clerk (Added Author)
Notes: Microfilm of original records in the Town Hall, Eastford, Connecticut.
Records in volume 1 were kept by the Town Clerk.
Indexes are found within vols. 1 and 4.
Vol. 1 includes a few records of sale of personal property, 1902-1920.
Format: Manuscript (On Film)
Publication: Salt Lake City
Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1983
1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.
LDS FHL US/CAN Film 1378042

HALE COLECTION
From the full online listing by Jan Harris
hosted by Elaine Merrell


"Marriage Records from the "Willimantic Journal" 1/4/1861-12/27/1866, containing the names of the parties, where they were from, town where marriage was performed, date of marriage and notes such as son of, daughter of, etc."

MARCH 16, 1861:

Trowbridge, Charles of Eastford
Rindge, Rosalie H. of Hampton
Married at Willimantic on Mar. 1

FEBRUARY 14, 1862:

Curtis, S. Noah of Ashford
Williams, Rebecca of Thompson
Married at Eastford on Jan. 29

Pease, Freeman J. of Augusta, Me.
Wetherell, Lorinda of Pomfret Landing
Married at Eastford on Feb. 1

NOVEMBER 13, 1863:

Dorsett, Benjamin B. of Eastford
Green, Anna S. of Eastford
Married at Willimantic on Nov. 3

FEBRUARY 26, 1864:

Smith, Dwight of Chaplin
Remington, Harriet of Eastford
Married at Chaplin on Feb. 16

Baker, Eli G. of Eastford, Co. G, 7th Ct. Civil War
Whitemore, Sarah J. of Eastford
Married at Eastford

MARCH 18, 1864:

Seamons, Olney J. of Eastford
Boutell, Sarah of Ashford
Married at Eastford on Mar. 10

DECEMBER 1, 1864

Briggs, Theodore of Eastford
Richards, Louisa P. of Ashford
Married at Chaplin on Nov. 17

APRIL 20, 1865:

Day, Abel C. of Chaplin
Bowtel, Laura F. of Eastford
Married at Chaplin on April 11

FEBRUARY 15, 1866:

George, Franklin of Eastford
Hall, Lucy A. of Eastford
Married at Eastford on Feb. 7



Bowen, Stephen at Rays-Place.com.

Civil War Info
Source: CHS.ORG

Kelley, Michael (1842?-)
Eastford [?]/Hartford
Twenty-Second Connecticut Infantry, Company I , Private
Eighth Connecticut Infantry, Company C , Private
1862, 1864
1 Envelope
Papers which detail Kelley's service as a substitute for Leverett Brainard. Brainard paid William H. Green, substitute broker, the sum of $625.00 to furnish a substitute. Kelley was paid $350.00. Also included is Brainard's certificate of exemption for having furnished a substitute and an agreement between Brainard and Kelley which states Kelley was from Eastford. Among the papers is a form of assent from Kelley's father, William, allowing his son to serve as a substitute. Kelley enlisted at Hartford on 15 September 1862 and was mustered-in a Private, Company I, 22nd Connecticut Infantry. He was mustered-out of this nine-months unit on 7 July 1863. He reenlisted at Wethersfield and was mustered-in a Private, Company C, 8th Connecticut Infantry, on 3 September 1863. He was captured on 16 May 1864 at City Point, VA. There is no further official record of this soldier though the papers state that Kelley "Came back safely." Also included is a tintype of Private Kelley.
Location: MS

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