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Files hold the most detailed information available on a particular case. Files usually contain a summons or writ, a document that contains a variety of other useful information, and often one or more additional documents, such as a debt by note, debt by bond, a list of book debts, depositions and/or testimony of witnesses, pleadings by lawyers, power of attorney, an accounting of court costs, and occasionally summonses for witnesses and a copy of the jury verdict.

The New London County Court Native Americans Collection is an artificial compilation of photocopies of cases involving Native Americans from the Files and Papers by Subject series of New London County Court records from the end of the seventeenth century to 1855. All originals have been retired and second photocopies have been inserted in the places where the originals were once located.

Papers by Subject is an artificial collection consisting of materials removed from New London County Court Files series by State Library staff after the records were received from the New London court. Subjects include: Admissions to the Bar; Appointment of Officers; Confiscated Estates and Loyalists; Conservators and Guardians; Costs; Court Expenses; Executions; Inquests; Insolvents; Jurors; Licenses; Meeting House; Militia; Miscellaneous; Partition of Lands; Pensions, Revolutionary War; Summons for Evidence; Travel.

Probate record books, 1849-1941; Probate files, 1787-1946.

Probate record books, None; Probate files, 1865-1944.

Probate record books, None; Probate files, 1844-1905.

Probate record books, 1825-1977; Probate files, 1834-1906.

Probate record books, 1854-1958; Probate files, 1833-1976.

Probate record books, 1859-1976; Probate files, 1859-1929.

Probate record books, None; Probate files, 1843-1976.