Free Litchfield County, Connecticut (CT) Genealogy Resources

Genealogy Resources for Litchfield County, Connecticut

Northwestern Connecticut was under the jurisdiction of New Haven County, but was transferred to Hartford County by 1738. Litchfield County was formed from parts of Fairfield County, Hartford County, and New Haven County, by an act of the Connecticut General Court on October 9, 1751. Upon its formation, the townships in Litchfield County were: Litchfield, Woodbury, New Milford, Harwinton, New Hartford, Barkhamsted, Hartland, Colebrook, Norfolk, Canaan, Salisbury, Kent, Sharon, Cornwall, Goshen, Torrington, and Winchester.

Litchfield County encompasses approximately 920 square miles* in the State of Connecticut.

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A history of Cornwall, Connecticut a typical New England town
Barkhamsted, Conn., and its centennial, 1879 to which is added a historical appendix containing copies of oldletters, antiquarian, names of soldiers of the revolution, 1812, 1846 and 1861, civil officers
Barkhamsted, Litchfield County, CT Marriages 1787-1804 - Congregational
Bethlehem, Litchfield County, CT Marriages 1740-1798 - Congregational
Burying grounds of Sharon, Connecticut, Amenia and North East, New York being an abstract of inscriptions from thirty places of burial in the above named towns
Canaan, Litchfield County, CT Marriages 1773-1797 - Congregational
Cornwall, Litchfield County, CT Marriages 1756-1797 - Congregational
General history of the town of Sharon, Litchfield County, Conn. from its first settlement
History of Norfolk, Litchfield County, Connecticut
History of Torrington, Connecticut from its first settlement in 1737, with biographies and genealogies
History of the town of Goshen, Connecticut with genealogies and biographies based upon the records of Deacon Lewis Mills Norton
History of the towns of New Milford and Bridgewater, Connecticut, 1803-1882
Kent, Litchfield County, CT Marriages 1741-1757 - Congregational
Morris, Litchfield County, CT Marriages 1787-1799 - Congregational
New Hartford, Litchfield County, CT Marriages 1743-1794 - Congregational
New Milford, Litchfield County, CT Marriages 1717-1799 - Congregational
Norfolk, Litchfield County, CT Marriages 1762-1800 - Congregational
North Canaan, Litchfield County, CT Marriages 1770-1797 - Congregational
Sketches and chronicles of the town of Litchfield, Connecticut, historical, biographical, and statistical together with a complete official register of the town
The bi-centennial celebration of the settlement of Litchfield, Connecticut, 1920
The church on the green the first two centuries of the First Congregational Church at Washington, Connecticut, 1741-1941
The history of Waterbury, Connecticut original township embracing present Watertown and Plymouth, and parts of Oxford, Wolcott, Middlebury, Prospect and Naugatuck, with an appendix of biography, genealogy and statistics
Torrington, Litchfield County, CT Marriages 1743-1801 - Congregational
Washington (New Preston), Litchfield County, CT Marriages 1770-1799 - 2nd Congregational
Washington, Litchfield County, CT Marriages 1749-1799 - 1st Congregational

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Ancestors born here

Name	Branch	Birth Date	Town

Ancestors married here

Name	Branch	Date	Town

My ancestors who died in Litchfield County (1)

Name	Branch	Date	Town
John Seymour III	HARVEY	1758 July 25	New Hartford

My ancestors buried in Litchfield County (1)

Name	Branch	Town	Place
John Seymour III	HARVEY	New Hartford	Town Hill Cemetery

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Litchfield County

Hartford

Jan 9, 1788

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Places in this County
Barkhamsted, CT
Bethlehem, CT
Bridgewater, CT
Canaan, CT
Colebrook, CT
Cornwall, CT
Goshen, CT
Harwinton, CT
Kent, CT
Litchfield, CT
Morris, CT
New Hartford, CT
New Milford, CT
Norfolk, CT
North Canaan, CT
Plymouth, CT
Roxbury, CT
Salisbury, CT
Sharon, CT
Thomaston, CT
Torrington, CT
Warren, CT
Washington, CT
Watertown, CT
Winchester, CT
Woodbury, CT