Organized May 1851 from Middletown

(Prior to 1851, it was called Middletown Upper Houses)

Online complete text of the Middletown Upper Houses (now Cromwell), 1908:

"A HISTORY OF THE NORTH SOCIETY OF MIDDLE- 
TOWN, CONNECTICUT, FROM 1650 TO 1800, WITH 
GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL CHAPTERS 
ON EARLY FAMILIES AND A FULL GENEALOGY 
OF THE RANNEY FAMILY 

By

CHARLES COLLARD ADAMS, M. A."

There are a total of 28 families represented. They are the BULKELEY, BUTLER, CLARK, DOOLITTLE, EDWARDS, EELLS, GAYLORD, GRIDLEY, HALL, HUBBARD, HURLBURT, KEITH, KELSEY, KIRBY, L'HOMMEDIEU, PROUT, RILEY, SAGE, SAVAGE, SHEPARD, SMITH, STOCKING, STOW, TREAT, WARNER, WHITE, WILCOX, and WILLIAMS families.  

Town of Cromwell website

Post your Cromwell queries--simply send me an email, and I will do the rest...  Please be sure to include your full name, and also indicate that your query is for Cromwell.  I regret that I cannot do private research for you in Cromwell

View Queries. 

CEMETERY RECORDS AND CEMETERIES

NAME	ADDRESS
Old Burying Ground aka Old Cromwell Cemetery	2 Timber Hill Road
Kelsey Cemetery	North Road
Old Center Cemetery - aka East Cemetery	24 Hillside Road
New Center Cemetery	"Off Center"
Northwest Cemetery	U.S. 52
Quary Cemetery	Ranney Street
Riverside Cemetery	(Not Located)
West Cemetery	29 Hillside Road

CHURCH RECORDS

BAPTIST CHURCH (FORMERLY MIDDLETOWN SECOND), Minutes, 1802-1920

Vital Records, 1802-1877. (CSL, LDS)

FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. Vital Records, 1715-1875. (CSL, LDS)

Card Index, 1715-1875. (CSL)

SECOND CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. Marriages, 1738-1800. Bailey

2:87-98, 3:169-170.

Hildreth, Homer Wesky. HISTORY OF THE FIRST CHURCH IN CROMWELL

1715-1915. Middletown: James D. Young Press, 1915. 65 p.

HISTORICAL SOCIETIES

Cromwell Historical Society, Inc., 395 Main Street  Cromwell, Connecticut 06416
Telephone (860)635-0501
Email: Cromwellhistory@aol.com
U.S. Mail: Post Office Box 146, Cromwell, Connecticut 06416

Society of Middletown First Settlers Descendants

LIBRARIES

Belden Library Association, 346 Main Street, 06416 (860) 635-4433

Connecticut State Library

PROBATE RECORDS

CROMWELL is in the Middletown Probate District

VITAL RECORDS 

Town Clerk, 5 West Street, 06416. (860) 635-5454.

The Town Clerk's earliest birth record is 2 September 1850, marriage record 30 May 1852, and death record 5 August 1850. 

PUBLISHED WORKS AND OTHER RECORDS

Adams, Charles Collard. Middletown Upper Houses; A History of the North Society of Middletown.. 1650 to 1800 with Genealogical and

Biographical Chapters on Early Families and a Full Genealogy of the Raney Family. N.Y.: Grafton Press, 1908. 847 p.

Dudley, Myron Samuel. HISTORY OF CROMWELL. Middletown: Constitution Office, 1880. 36 p.

The History and Architecture of Cromwell, Judith E. Johnson, William H. Tabor. The Greater Middletown Preservation Trust, Middletown, Connecticut. 1980.