Collections : [Connecticut State Library, State Archives]

Probate record books, 1840-1955; Probate files, 1790-1963, bulk 1833-1963.

Lucius B. Barbour (1878-1934) was appointed the first Public Records Examiner at the Connecticut State Library in 1911. The collection includes genealogical notes and abstracts from Connecticut vital, church, cemetery and probate records and from newspapers.

The collection contains documents kept by Major Edward V. Preston, who was a quartermaster and then a paymaster in the United States Army during the Civil War. Included in the papers are muster rolls, officer pay vouchers, discharge papers, hospital notices, returns, receipts, requisitions, books, and personal papers.

Administrative records, 1957-1994; Land records, 1933-1990; Tax records, 1932-1979; Court Records, 1940-1961.

Administratvie, election, court, land, school and tax records for the town of Woodbury.

Gov. James L. McConaughy and Gov. James C. Shannon's correspondence, subject files, and board and commission files.

Tax and school records for the town of Plymouth.

Robert Satter was a prominent Hartford lawyer, a member of the state House of Representatives, a general counsel to Democratic Party legislators, and a Superior Court Judge. Included in this collection are clippings, correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, and published writings reflecting his long and distinguished legal, political, legislative, and judicial career in Connecticut.

A collection of coat of arms that include drawings, photostats and paintings.

In 1939, the General Assembly enacted House Bill 1650 that established a five-member commission appointed by the Governor to study the problems associated with physical and mental diseases in Connecticut, delivery of services by state facilities and expenditures made by them and those that the state should make. Originally called the Commission on the Treatment and Care of People Afflicted with Physical or Mental Disabilities and sometimes known as the Barker Commission, the group was better known as the Commission on the Prevention and Care of Sickness.