Richard Mills of Stratford, Connecticut; or is it New Haven, Long Island, or Westchester?

by John A. Drobnicki
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Primary Sources

(1)Unpublished Documents:

Court Records of the Town of Newtown, Queens County, 1658-1690. 2 vols. Copied by Leland Fielder (WPA Project). Typescript, 1940. Long Island Division, Queens Borough Public Library. [Cited above as Newtown Court Recs. Page references above are to the typescript volumes, not to the original manuscripts that Fielder transcribed from. The Long Island Division is now known as the Archives at Queens Library.]

Milford Vital Records, 1640- 1850. Barbour Collection, Connecticut State Library.

Records of the Town of Newtown. 2 vols. Copied by Leland Fielder (WPA Project). Typescript, 1939-40. Long Island Division, Queens Borough Public Library. [Cited above as Newtown Town Recs. Page references above are to the typescript volumes, not to the original manuscripts that Fielder transcribed from. The Long Island Division is now known as the Archives at Queens Library.]

Southampton Town Records. Book A: 1640-1660. Manuscript. Town Hall, Southampton, Long Island. [Cited above as Southampton MS.]

Stamford Land Records. Vol. A: 1666-1709. Vol. B: 1709-1750. Manuscript. Microfilm copy, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. [Cited above as Stamford Land Recs.]

Stamford Town Records. Vol. I: 1640-1806. Manuscript. Microfilm copy, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. [Cited above as Stamford Town Recs.]

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(2) Published Documents:

Brookhaven Town Records, 1662-1679. Ed. Archibald C. Weeks. New York: Tobias A. Wright, 1924. [Cited above as Brookhaven Recs.]

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"Hertfordshire Emigrants in 1636." New England Historical and Genealogical Register, LIV (July 1900), 352. [Cited above as NEHGR.]

The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut. 15 vols. Ed. J. Hammond Trumbull and Charles J. Hoadly. 1850-90; rpt. New York: AMS Press and Johnson Reprint Corp., 1968. [Cited above as Ct. Col. Recs.]

Records of the Colony and Plantation of New Haven, from 1638 to 1649. Ed. Charles J. Hoadly. Hartford: Case, Tiffany and Company, 1857. [Cited above as New Haven Recs., I.]

Records of the Colony or Jurisdiction of New Haven, from May 1653 to the Union. Ed. Charles J. Hoadly. Hartford: Case, Lockwood and Company, 1858. [Cited above as New Haven Docs., II.]

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"Stamford (Conn.) Town Records." The American Genealogist, X (Oct. 1933), 110-118.

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Secondary Sources

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Calder, Isabel M. The New Haven Colony. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1934.

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Howell, George Rogers. The Early History of Southampton, L.I., New York, with Genealogies. 2nd enlarged ed. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Company, 1887.

Huntington, Elijah Baldwiin. History of Stamford, Connecticut, 1641-1868. Stamford: The Author, 1868.

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________, comp. The Families of Ancient New Haven. Vols. I-VIII (1922-32) of New Haven Genealogical Magazine/American Genealogist.

________. "Francis Nichols of Stratford." The American Genealogist, IX (July 1932), 9-12.

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Moore, James W., comp. Rev. John Moore of Newtown, Long Island, and Some of His Descendants. Easton, Pa.: Chemical Publishing Co., 1903.

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