Primary Source Documents
(Primary source documents, when possible, appear as
printable images throughout this web site and are
listed in the Site Map.)
Archival Documents in the Collection of the Mattatuck
Historical Society, Waterbury, Connecticut
Archival Documents and The Public Records of the Colony
and of the State of Connecticut, in the Collection
of the Connecticut State Library, Hartford, CT
Census Records, 1790-1920
Waterbury Land Records, Waterbury Town Clerk's Office
Acts and Laws of the Colony of Connecticut, 1756,
in the Collection of the Silas Bronson Library, Waterbury,
CT
Local Publications (Containing transcripts of eighteenth-century
documents and some reminiscences.)
Joseph Anderson, ed., The Churches of Mattatuck:
A Record of a Bi-Centennial Celebration at Waterbury,
Connecticut. New Haven: The Price, Lee & Adkins
Company, 1892
Joseph Anderson, ed., The Town and City of Waterbury,
Connecticut, a three-volume history published
in 1896
John Warner Barber, Connecticut Historical Collections,
Containing a General Collection of Interesting Facts,
Traditions, Biographical Sketches, Anecdotes &c.
Relating to the History and Antiquities of Every Town
in Connecticut, with Geographical Descriptions.
New Haven and Hartford, CT: John W. Barber and A.
Willard, 1836.
Joseph Perkins Beach, History of Cheshire, Connecticut
from 1694 to 1840, Lady Fenwick Chapter, D.A.R.,
1912
Henry Bronson, The History of Waterbury, Connecticut,
1858
William Cothren, History of Ancient Woodbury, Connecticut,
From the First Indian Deed in 1659 to 1879, Including
the Present Towns of Washington, Southbury, Bethlehem,
Roxbury, and a Part of Oxford and Middlebury (Three
Volumes), Woodbury, CT: William Cothren, 1879.
Daughters of the American Revolution, Sarah Whitman
Trumbull Chapter, History of Ancient Westbury and
Present Watertown From Its Settlement to 1907
Grace Bicknell Eisenwinter and others, The Old
Burying Ground of Ancient Westbury and Present Watertown,
Sarah Whitman Trumbull Chapter, D.A.R., 1938
Rawson W. Haddon, “Slaves in Waterbury,”
The Mattatuck Historical Society, Occasional Publications
New Series, No. 20, October 1953
Frederick J. Kingsbury, History of St. John’s
Church, Waterbury, Connecticut. The Price, Lee
& Adkins Co., 1907
Katharine A. Prichard, Ancient Burying Grounds
of the Town of Waterbury, Connecticut, The Mattatuck
Historical Society, 1917
Katharine A. Prichard, ed., Proprietors' Records
of the Town of Waterbury, Connecticut, 1677-1761.
Waterbury, CT: The Mattatuck Historical Society, 1911
N. S. Richardson, Historical Sketch of Watertown,
From Its Original Settlement; With the Record of Its
Mortality from March, 1741, to January, 1845, and
to May, 1858, being One Hundred and Seventeen Years.
Waterbury, CT: E. B. Cooke & Co., 1858.
Secondary Sources
E. Edwards Beardsley, The History of the Episcopal
Church in Connecticut, From the Settlement of the
Colony to the Death of Bishop Seabury. New York:
Hurd and Houghton, 1865.
Daniel Cruson, Newtown’s Slaves: A Case Study
in Early Connecticut Rural Black History. Newtown
Historical Society: 1994
John Duffy, From Humors to Medical Science: A History
of American Medicine, University of Illinois Press,
1993
James Essig, “Connecticut Ministers and Slavery,
1790-1795” in the Journal of American Studies,
1981
Lorenzo Greene, The Negro in Colonial New England,
Columbia University Press, 1942
Jackson Turner Main, Society and Economy in Colonial
Connecticut, Princeton University Press, 1985
Edgar J. McManus, Black Bondage in the North,
Syracuse University Press, 1973
Joanne Melish, Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation
and “Race” in New England, 1780-1860,
Cornell University Press,1998
William Piersen, Black Yankees: The Development
of an Afro-American Subculture in Eighteenth Century
New England. Amherst: The University of Massachusetts
Press, 1988
Orville Platt, “Negro Governors” in Papers
of the New Haven Colony Historical Society, Vol. VI,
1900
Christine Quigley, Skulls and Skeletons: Human
Bone Collections and Accumulations. Jefferson,
NC: McFarland & Co., Inc., 2001.
Michael Sappol, A Traffic of Dead Bodies, Princeton
University Press, 2002.
Horatio Strother, The Underground Railroad in Connecticut,
Wesleyan University Press, 1962
Ralph Weld, Slavery in Connecticut; Tercentenary
Commission of the State of Connecticut; 1936
David White, Connecticut’s Black Soldiers
1775-1783, Connecticut Bicentennial Series IV:
Pequot Press; 1973
