Collections : [Connecticut State Library, State Archives]

Norwich State Hospital operated from 1904 to 1996. Includes patient files, admission registers, medical staff records, and blueprints.

The Office of Family Support was established by Governor Rowland after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. It assisted families of the victims in locating financial, legal, and emotional assistance.

The Office of Health Care Access was established in 1994 to ensure that the citizens of Connecticut have access to a quality health care delivery system.

The Office of Indian Affairs works with the Connecticut Indian Affairs Council (CIAC) and coordinates activities relating to the state's American Indian population and state Indian reservations. The CIAC's responsibility is to advise the Dept. of Environmental Protection Commissioner on matters relating to Connecticut's five tribes.

The Office of Policy and Management is the Connecticut governor's staff agency. It provides information and analysis that the Governor uses to formulate public policy goals for the State and assist State agencies and municipalities in implementing policy decisions on behalf of the people of Connecticut.

Record books, 1821-1974; Probate files, 1830-1945.

Record books, 1859-1951; Probate files, 1859-1976.

The papers consist of material that pertains to Oliver Blackman,Theodore Blackman, and the Blackman family. Oliver Blackman served in Company D of the 23rd Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry. Theodore Blackman served in the Union Navy. Included in the papers are correspondence, diaries, personal papers, publications, photographs, and artifcats.

From title page: Incorporating most of the contents of a volume written, printed, and published by Oliver Norton Worden in 1868 entitled "Some Records of Persons by the name of Worden, Particularly of over one thousand of the ancestors, kin, and descendants of John and Elizabeth Worden of Washington County, Rhode Island. Covering three hundred years, and comprising twelve generations in America." and incorporating most of the manuscript material prepared in 1972 by Mrs. Marjorie W. Schunke entitled "The Worden Family in R.I." and based upon the research of Mrs. Vivian Y. Brecknell.

The Order of the Founders and Patriots of America was incorporated in New York on March 18, 1896. The terms of eligibility require that every member must be descended in the male line of father or mother, from an ancestor who settled in one of the original thirteen colonies within fifty years from the settlement of Jamestown, VA, May 13, 1607.