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Souvenir program celebrating North Branford's sesquicentennial 1831-1981. Includes schedule of events occurring June 20 through June 27, 1981.

Includes a transcription of the handwritten journals of Polly Linsley, a single woman who lived in North Branford, who writes of her life and happenings in North Branford from 1809-1827.

A poster of the Grand Opening Celebration of the Atwater Memorial Library, Saturday, September 11, 2010.

A letter, written in September 1862, from a North Branford civilian, Russell Clark, to a Connecticut Union soldier, Albert Wheaton

Pamphlet publication of the Tercentenary Commission of the State of Connecticut.

Pamphlet publication of the Tercentenary Commission of the State of Connecticut.

Program of events and historic glimpses of Connecticut and North Branford.

A history of the slave or former slave Dick Negro who saved local residents from the British invasion of North Haven in 1779 and was awarded his freedom and a plot of land.

Includes the history of four Black slaves of North Branford. There is a digitized copy and transcription of an indenture agreement promising freedom to a Negro slave named Dick Tull. Included also is an article entitled Our Black Revolutionary War…

Included is the history of a mixed race family in North Branford in 1860.