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The Brooks Collection

Mrs. Lillian Kruger Brooks of Haddam Neck, Connecticut, working with town historian Amzi Clark (also of Haddam Neck), spent 40 years collecting materials and doing research on the Haddam Neck area of Connecticut for a book she wrote called Life Flows Along Like a River: a History of Haddam Neck, (published in 1972). This book tells the history and beginnings of Haddam Neck, using facts and stories of those who lived there. Along with a copy of her completed book the Godfrey Memorial Library is fortunate to have been given the vast array of materials that Mrs. Brooks collected over the years. One part of the collection is made up of boxes of note cards with the transcriptions of headstones from cemeteries in Haddam, Higganum, East Haddam, Hadlyme, East Hampton, and Colchester. This database is drawn from some of her notes. Many notes are written on scraps of paper, and all are written in pencil, so there are bound to be some errors in the transcriptions. The information in this database is drawn from a set of 3"x 5" index cards. Most of the cards are identified by the burial ground from which they were transcribed. However, the boxes of cards had been shifted about many times, so there may be cards that were placed incorrectly. All Material in this collection is © 2010 Godfrey Memorial Library - All Rights Reserved. Any reproduction for commercial use is prohibited. Transcription Sources (by database) include: Bashan Cemetery - East Haddam, Connecticut Burial Ground, Episcopal Church, East Haddam, Connecticut Cove Yard, East Haddam, Connecticut Fox Town, East Haddam, Connecticut Mt. Parnassus, East Haddam, Connecticut North Plains, East Haddam, Connecticut Tater Hill, East Haddam, Connecticut Town Street, East Haddam, Connecticut Warner Yard, East Haddam, Connecticut Long Pond, East Haddam Connecticut Moodus Yard, Moodus, Connectiucut Riverview, East Haddam, Connecticut Haddam Lower Yard, Haddam, CT Little City Yard. Haddam, CT Ponsett Yard (Old). Haddam, CT Shailerville, Shailerville, CT Turkey Hill Yard, Haddam, CT Tylerville,Tylerville, CT Burying Ground of Thirty Mile Island Plantation, Haddam, CT Military Higganum Yard, Higganum, CT Rock Landing, Higganum, CT Haddam Neck Old Yard, Haddam Neck, CT Hadlyme, Hadlyme, CT Hadlyme Ferry Yard, Hadlyme, CT Hadlyme Ferry #2, Hadlyme, CT Burnt Church, East Hampton, CT Hog Hill Yard, East Hampton, CT Skinnerville, East Hampton, CT Tartia - 1777, East Hampton, CT White Birch, East Hampton, CT Waterhole, East Hampton, CT Youngstreet, East Hampton, CT Westchester Second Congregational Church, Colchester, CT Miscellaneous EARLY CHURCH MEMBERS: EAST HADDAM, CONNECTICUT BAPTISMS, EAST HADDAM, CONNECTICUT : Alphabetical Church Records - Marriages Below is a list of the online resources of this collection. Active resources appear in blue underlined text. Click on any of these links to view the title. Other titles will become active as each resource is uploaded. Online Resources: Notebooks: 1. Brooks Family Charts 2. Arnold Family Charts 3. Clark Family Charts - vol. 1 4. Clark Family Charts - vol. 2 5. Amzi Notes - families Books and Booklets: 1. Middle Haddam Congregational Church - Marriages 2. The Clarke Genealogy 3. Church Records from Rev. David Selden 4. Names taken from 1st and 2nd volume of records 5. Family Charts 6. Inscriptions - Old Burying Ground, Haddam, Connecticut 7. Soldiers Graves - Rock Landing Cemetery, Haddam Neck, CT 8. Muster Roll of Company H, 21st Connecticut Volunteers in Civil War 9. The History of the Haddam Neck Covenant Church 1886-1969 10. Haddam Cemeteries EXCEL SPREADSHEETS (created from boxes of note cards.) Please note: After opening a database, click on tabs at the bottom of the screen to move between the pages. 1. Database #1 - Families 2. Database #2 - East Haddam 3. Database #3 - Higganum 4. Database #4 - Haddam 5. Database #5 - East Hampton 6. Database #6 - CHURCH MEMBERS, EAST HADDAM, CONNECTICUT 7. Database #7 - Baptisms East Haddam, Connecticut - by name 8. Database #8 - Alphabetical Church Records - marriages 9. Database #9 - Haddam Church Records, by year 10. Database #10 - The Brainerd Family 11. Database #11 - Family Group Cards a. A to B b. C c. D to G d. H to L e. M to Sears f. Selby to Sutcliff g. T to Z