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This is a paper-bound pamphlet found in the Bienecke Library, Yale University, located in the University Library Card Catalogue by Mrs. Frederick A. Davis and examined by the undersigned on February 10, 1971. Includes a list of items published in a…

Includes the origins of the Shore Line Electric Railway, a trolley line with service running between New Haven and Old Saybrook, through North Branford, Includes accounts of the deadly wreck that occurred in North Branford on August 13 1917, killing…

Includes a history of the North Branford Congregational Church, United Church of Christ.

Includes comments delivered by Carrie Doody on North Branford schools, at a Northford Historical Society Teachers' Tea, October 8, 1970, and a transcription of the article, "Quaint old stories woven in woof of Northford's history," by A. Lauretta…

Includes the story of a slave, Gad Asher, who lived in North Branford, served his master for thirty-five years, and fought in the Revolutionary War.

Included is the history of a mixed race family in North Branford in 1860.

Includes the history of four Black slaves of North Branford. There is a digitized copy and transcription of an indenture agreement promising freedom to a Negro slave named Dick Tull. Included also is an article entitled Our Black Revolutionary War…

A history of the slave or former slave Dick Negro who saved local residents from the British invasion of North Haven in 1779 and was awarded his freedom and a plot of land.

Histories of North Branford and Northford, Connecticut taken from a series of articles written for The Citizen.

Included is a brief history of North Branford, Connecticut.