History of the Town of Stonington County of New London Connecticut from its First Settlement in 1649 to 1900 with a Genealogical Register of Stonington Families.

Like many of the historical and genealogical books written during the 1800's and early 1900's this work consists of two main sections: the History of Stonington which consumes the book's first 200 pages and concludes with the 500 page Genealogical Register of Stonington Families. Beginning with the original patents in 1631 the author summarizes the history of the town and addresses the development of the various facets of society such as their religious institutions the military component government infrastructure commercial development the various wars endured and other historical events. The narrative is filled with the names of residents involved with or prominent in the town's sectors or institutions. There are also numerous lists and military rosters of those who served elected officials and of individuals involved in the commercial and ecclesiastical development. The second section of the book the Genealogical Register of Stonington Families comprises an alphabetical listing beginning with the immigrant ancestor and progresses through five or more generations providing names birth and marriage dates and often times a narrative of the background and accomplishments of the individual. In addition to this alphabetically arranged register an index is also available which exceeds more than 12000 entries.Following are the immigrant surnames whose genealogies are outlined: Avery Babcock Baldwin Bennett Bentley Billings Breed Brown Browning Burch Burrows Chapman Chesebrough Clift Coates Cobb Collins Copp Cottrell Davis Dean Denison Eells Fanning Fish Frink Gallup Gore Grant Greenman Haley Hallam Hancox Hart Hewitt Hinckley Hobart Holmes Hull Hyde Kellogg Main Mallory Manning Mathews Mason Miner Morgan Noyes Page Palmer Park Peabody Pendleton Phelps Pollard Pomeroy Prentice Randall Rhodes Rossiter Russell Searle Sheffield Sisson Smith Stanton Stewart/Steward Swan Thompson Trumbull Vincent West Wheeler Wilcox Williams Witter Woodbridge and York. Paperback (1900) repr. 2002 2011 Appendix Index 772 pp.