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Transcription from photocopies of the original letter written by the Reverend Jonathan Maltby to his friend, Dr. Jared Linley in 1844. Photocopy of the original letter also attached.

This report appears to be the first annual report written after North Branford became a separate town.

Includes a transcript of a talk delivered about the prominent Northford Reverend Warham Williams and his aunt, Eunice Williams, who was captured in the Deerfield Massacre in 1704.

Includes information about the murder of Emily Cooper in North Branford in 1849. Also included is information about the murderer, Henry Leander Foote, newspaper accounts of the murder and more.

This paper shows the trends in cost of town government over the last 100 years. The information is drawn from several manuscript ledgers and includes records of the two School Societies and town Treasurer and Selectmen. Also included is an almost…

A brief history of Warham Williams, a Northford minister, and his prominent home.

Includes two hundred years of the history of St. Andrew's Protesant Episcopal Church in Northford, Connecticut.

Includes a transcription of the handwritten journals of Polly Linsley, a single woman who lived in North Branford, who writes of her life and happenings in North Branford from 1809-1827.

A brief biography of William Douglas, a Connecticut sailor and solider who led regiments from Connecticut during the American Revolutionary War. Based on the notes of a talk given at the Northford Historical Society, January 14, 1971.

Notes on a talk by Leonard W. Labaree on the founding of North Branford and Northford. Includes a timeline of the petitions to the General Assembly requesting to split from Branford and form a separate Society for "Northern Farmers."