The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, vols. 1-2 (1850-1852)

The printed records of the General Court of Connecticut. Vol. 1 (1636-1665) is https://archive.org/details/publicrecordsofc03conn; vol. 2 (1665-1678) is https://archive.org/details/publicrecords02conn. Read in the archive.org full text for research/mcmillan/Fairchild_Raymond_Woodworth.md (October 2026).

• Moses Wheeler and the Stratford ferry, General Court of 18 May 1648 (1:163): “The motion made by Mr. Ludlowe, concerneing Moses Wheeler for the keepeing the Ferry att Stratford, is referred to such as shall keepe the next Court att Fayerfield, both in the behalfe of the Country and the Towne of Stratford.”
• Thomas Fairchild of Stratford among the deputies, e.g. at the court of October 1654, “Tho: Fairechild” (vol. 1).
• His second marriage and estate, General Court of May 1673 (2:198-199): “Vpon the petition of Mrs. Katheren Fayrechild … in refferance to an obligation with condition made by Mr. Thomas Fayrechild before marriage unto the abouesayd Mrs. Katherin Fayrechild, for the payement of two hundred pownds, English money, — This Court findeing a non-performance of the sayd condition obliged, nor any prouision made by will or otherwise for three children of the sayd Thomas and Katherin Fayrechild, doe allowe of the sayd two hundred pownd, as just debt to be payd out of the estate.” The editor’s note: “A copy of the marriage contract between Thomas Fairchild, of Stratford, merchant, and Katherine Cragg, a sister of Elizabeth Whiting, widow, of London, (executed in England, 22d Dec. 1662,) is in Priv. Controv. Vol. I. Doc. 20. Mr. Fairchild binds himself to convey to the said Katherine, a life estate in his lands at Stratford, or, in case of his death before his arrival in N. England, to cause to be paid to the said Katherine, the sum of £200. The Inventory of Mr. Fairchild’s estate, (amounting to £160 10s. 0d.) with the report of the Committee of the General Court, by whom it was apprized and set out to the widow, is recorded in Col. Rec. of Lands, II. 20.”
• Henry Whitney, General Assembly of 10 Oct 1667 (2:73), upon the petition of Wm. Haugh: “there shall be payd unto the sayd Henry Whitney fower pownds out of the publique Treasury … about seizing of rumme” (as quoted by Phoenix, 1878).