{"id":735,"date":"2010-04-30T15:55:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T20:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/research-finds-via-the-connecticut-archives\/"},"modified":"2013-07-09T17:35:06","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T22:35:06","slug":"research-finds-via-the-connecticut-archives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/research-finds-via-the-connecticut-archives\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Finds via the Connecticut Archives"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I wrote about the Connecticut Archives collection<\/a> available at the Connecticut State Library.\u00a0 Today I thought I\u2019d share with you some of the gems I was able to retrieve.<\/p>\n

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I spent all day Wednesday looking through all of the collection indexes online, looking in particular for my Parks and Webster families (there are many other lines in CT, but these are my focus right now).\u00a0\u00a0 Although the collections are held at the Connecticut State Library, many of them are also available through the Family History Library.\u00a0 There were a bunch of records I wanted, and since everyone was hanging out at the FHL this week, I asked my Facebook friends if anyone could pull a few for me.<\/p>\n

The short list of must-haves initially consisted of 10 films, and about 20 or so records.\u00a0 Seeing as my research isn\u2019t a priority for someone visiting SLC, I pared it down, creating a must-must-have list of eight records (four films).\u00a0 Donna Pointkouski, who author\u2019s the blog What\u2019s Past is Prologue<\/a>, was kind enough to obtain those few records for me.\u00a0 As for the others, I will deal with them another time (one film has several, so I may order that one the next time I\u2019m at the FHC).<\/p>\n

Two collections are of extreme importance, as I am trying to figure out if my seventh great-grandfather, Joseph Parks, actually served in the Revolutionary War.\u00a0 The DAR has \u201cred-marked\u201d him indicating that the Joseph Parks who served was a younger gentleman; I tend to agree with this.\u00a0 Joseph\u2019s son, Robert (my sixth great-grandfather), did serve, and it\u2019s possible that Joseph\u2019s son, Joseph, is the other one who served (I have no information on this Joseph at this point, to know whether he was alive at the time of the war, or in the area).\u00a0 Given Joseph\u2019s age, I thought perhaps he served in the French & Indian War and perhaps King George\u2019s War.<\/p>\n

Joseph was indexed in the Revolutionary War Series 1 Index, covering 1763-1789.\u00a0 The document I had pulled appears to be a petition relating to the reinstating of a tavernkeeper.\u00a0 Joseph Parks, was one of the signers, as was Robert and John.\u00a0 I have no idea at this time what this has to do with anything, nor whether it\u2019s my Joseph.\u00a0 I\u2019m pretty sure that the Robert listed is Joseph\u2019s son.\u00a0 Both were alive and by all accounts in Voluntown, Connecticut where the document was signed on 5 October 1775.\u00a0 The only other listing for a Joseph Parks in this index is for a Joseph jr. \u201cpriv. Norwich, half days training, 1775.\u201d\u00a0 Norwich is in the right area of the state, but the indication of \u201cjr.\u201d in the index makes me seriously think this is not my Joseph (mine would have been about 67 years old in 1775).<\/p>\n

Moving on to the other collection, Militia Series 1 (1678-1757), there were five documents I had pulled, related to what I believe are Joseph and his father Robert.\u00a0 The earliest record for Robert in this series is dated 1733, in Voluntown, indicating Lieutenant Robert Parks was from Plainfield.\u00a0 This seems to line up with other research.\u00a0 A document dated 1742, includes both a Robert and a Joseph Parks.\u00a0 Without doing a full analysis, I suspect that Robert in this case, is perhaps Robert\u2019s son, Robert.\u00a0 A Joseph is found in two other documents, in 1756 and 1757.\u00a0 In the 1756 document, Lieutenant Joseph Parks was voted Captain of the Eleventh Company in the Eleventh Regiment of the Colony of Connecticut.<\/p>\n

\"PARKS,
Connecticut, “Connecticut Archives: Militia records selected papers, series 1-3, 1678-1820,” Vol. 5, p. 370; Connecticut State Library, Hartford; FHL microfilm 3,604.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If Joseph is the same person through all the documents in the Militia Series 1 Collection, it would seem that he was part of the militia in 1742 and perhaps fought during both King George\u2019s War and the French & Indian War.\u00a0 The next step is to determine if it\u2019s the same person, and if it\u2019s my Joseph.\u00a0 I also need to obtain the other military documents from the collections.<\/p>\n

A very special thanks to Donna Pointkouski for obtaining these records for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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