1Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), pp. 548-551. ... father of thirteen children ... a fox hunter ... three times elected governor ...
2Emerging from the Shadows, 1775-1819: The Black Governors. http://www.hartford-hwp.com/HBHP/exhibit/03/1.html.
3Hale Collection, Bare Plains Cemetery, Ansonia, hale-collection.com, New Horizons Genealogy. http://hale-collection.com/201-4-new-haven-ansonia-bare-plain.htm.
4Bare Plains Cemetery Photograph - Ansonia, CT. http://www.oxfordpast.com/cem43373.html.
5Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852, General Editor - Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997, p. 224. "FREEMAN ... Roswell, m. Mary FRANCIS, (colored), b. of Derby, May 1, 1826, by Rev. Zepheniah Swift."
1Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852, General Editor - Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997, p. 224. "FREEMAN ... Roswell, m. Mary FRANCIS, (colored), b. of Derby, May 1, 1826, by Rev. Zepheniah Swift."
1Hale Collection, Bare Plains Cemetery, Ansonia, hale-collection.com, New Horizons Genealogy. http://hale-collection.com/201-4-new-haven-ansonia-bare-plain.htm.
21850 Derby Census.
3Arthur Walker, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oak Cliff Cemetery, p. 221. http://www.oxfordpast.com/occemscan221.html.
1Hale Collection, Bare Plains Cemetery, Ansonia, hale-collection.com, New Horizons Genealogy. http://hale-collection.com/201-4-new-haven-ansonia-bare-plain.htm.
1Hale Collection, Bare Plains Cemetery, Ansonia, hale-collection.com, New Horizons Genealogy. http://hale-collection.com/201-4-new-haven-ansonia-bare-plain.htm.
1Hale Collection, Bare Plains Cemetery, Ansonia, hale-collection.com, New Horizons Genealogy. http://hale-collection.com/201-4-new-haven-ansonia-bare-plain.htm.
1Samuel Durand, Dr. John Durand. A Huguenot Born 1664, La Rochelle, France, Palo Alto, Ca., 1965, p. 64.
2Hale Collection, Bare Plains Cemetery, Ansonia, hale-collection.com, New Horizons Genealogy. http://hale-collection.com/201-4-new-haven-ansonia-bare-plain.htm.
3Bare Plains Cemetery Photograph - Ansonia, CT. http://www.oxfordpast.com/cem43387.html.
4Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852, General Editor - Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997, p. 234. " ... by Rev. Abner Smith."
1Samuel Durand, Dr. John Durand. A Huguenot Born 1664, La Rochelle, France, Palo Alto, Ca., 1965, p. 64. " ... dau. of Daniel & Sarah (Isbel) Wooster ..."
2Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852, General Editor - Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997, p. 234. " ... by Rev. Abner Smith."
1Samuel Durand, Dr. John Durand. A Huguenot Born 1664, La Rochelle, France, Palo Alto, Ca., 1965, p. 64.
1Samuel Durand, Dr. John Durand. A Huguenot Born 1664, La Rochelle, France, Palo Alto, Ca., 1965, p. 64.
2Hale Collection, Bare Plains Cemetery, Ansonia, hale-collection.com, New Horizons Genealogy. http://hale-collection.com/201-4-new-haven-ansonia-bare-plain.htm.
1Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852, General Editor - Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997, p. 318.
1Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852, General Editor - Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997, p. 236. " ... by Rev. John D. Smith."
1Samuel Durand, Dr. John Durand. A Huguenot Born 1664, La Rochelle, France, Palo Alto, Ca., 1965, p. 64. " ... dau. of Daniel & Sarah (Isbel) Wooster ..."
2Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852, General Editor - Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997, p. 236. " ... by Rev. John D. Smith."
1Hale Collection, Bare Plains Cemetery, Ansonia, hale-collection.com, New Horizons Genealogy. http://hale-collection.com/201-4-new-haven-ansonia-bare-plain.htm.
1Hale Collection, Bare Plains Cemetery, Ansonia, hale-collection.com, New Horizons Genealogy. http://hale-collection.com/201-4-new-haven-ansonia-bare-plain.htm.
2Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), p. 728.
3Ralph Clymer Hawkins, A Hawkins Genealogy 1635 - 1939, Record of the Descendants of Robert Hawkins of Charlestown, Massachusetts, The Hawkins Association, 1939, p. 251.
4Samuel Durand, Dr. John Durand. A Huguenot Born 1664, La Rochelle, France, Palo Alto, Ca., 1965, p. 32.
1Hale Collection, Bare Plains Cemetery, Ansonia, hale-collection.com, New Horizons Genealogy. http://hale-collection.com/201-4-new-haven-ansonia-bare-plain.htm.
1Hale Collection, Bare Plains Cemetery, Ansonia, hale-collection.com, New Horizons Genealogy. http://hale-collection.com/201-4-new-haven-ansonia-bare-plain.htm.
1Hale Collection, Bare Plains Cemetery, Ansonia, hale-collection.com, New Horizons Genealogy. http://hale-collection.com/201-4-new-haven-ansonia-bare-plain.htm.
1Hale Collection, Bare Plains Cemetery, Ansonia, hale-collection.com, New Horizons Genealogy. http://hale-collection.com/201-4-new-haven-ansonia-bare-plain.htm.