Connecticut Witch Trial Exoneration Project

Witch Trial Ancestors Genealogy Research

Connecticut Witch Trial Exoneration Project

Dedicated to the memory of those accused of witchcraft in colonial Connecticut, the project is working to memorialize the victims and educate about lessons to be learned from the trials.

End Witch Hunts
Sign the Petition to Exonerate Massachusetts Witchcraft Trial Victims
Unveiling the Goody Bassett Memorial in Stratford
Samuel Wyllys Papers at Connecticut State Library
Samuel Wyllys Papers at John Hay Library at Brown University
The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, Volume 1 (1636-1665)
The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, Volume 2 (1665-1678)
The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, Volume 3 (1678-1689)
The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, Volume 4 (1689-1706)
Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society, Volume 22 (Records of the Particular Court of Connecticut, 1639-1663)
Records of the colony and plantation of New-Haven, from 1638 to 1649
Records of the colony or jurisdiction of New Haven, from May, 1653, to the union
New Haven town records, 1649- , Volume 1
New Haven town records, 1649, Volume 2
Connecticut State Archives
Connecticut State Library
Keep this Resource Available
CT Digital Archive
CT Museum of Culture and History
Books about Connecticut Witch Trials @ our bookshop.org
Connecticut Witch Trials 101, Part 1
Connecticut Witch Trials 101, Part 2: Witchcraft Belief, the Founding of Connecticut, & Alice Young
Connecticut Witch Trials 101 Part 3: 1648-1661
Connecticut Witch Trials 101 Part 4: The Hartford Witch-Hunt of 1662-1665
Connecticut Witch Trials 101 Part 5: 1666 to 1691
Connecticut Witch Trials 101 Part 6: 1692 and Beyond
Finding Your Salem Witch Trial Ancestors with David Allen Lambert
David Allen Lambert – Verifying Descent from Salem’s Accused Witches
Richard S. Ross III – Witchcraft Panic in Connecticut
20 Timeless Genealogy Research Tips (familytreemagazine.com)
Connecticut Vital Records
Bridgeport Town Clerk
Compo (Westport) Town Clerk
East Hampton, NY Town Clerk
Fairfield Town Clerk
Farmington Town Clerk
Hartford Town Clerk
New Haven Town Clerk
Old Saybrook Town Clerk
Stamford Town Clerk
Stratford Town Clerk
Wallingford Town Clerk
Wethersfield Town Clerk
Windsor Town Clerk
Before Salem: Witch Hunting in the Connecticut River Valley, 1647-1663
Escaping Salem: The Other Witch Hunt of 1692
Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England
The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England
Witch-Hunting in Seventeenth-Century New England: A Documentary History 1638-1693
Detestable and Wicked Arts: New England and Witchcraft in the Early Modern Atlantic World
The Colonial History of Hartford by William DeLoss Love
Crimes and Misdemeanors 1662-1789