Are you doing some genealogy research about your family or another popular family in town? Are you a student (or just a lifelong learner) looking for more information on a particular subject of Watertown’s history? The Watertown History Museum is more than happy to help!
Listed below are books, both genealogical and historical, that the Watertown History Museum holds in its collection. Some of these can be found online and have been linked accordingly. If it isn’t linked but you would like to come take a look at them, please feel free to email or call the museum to make arrangements.
In 2023, we hosted a lecture about Connecticut’s Civilian Conservation Corps. If a relative of yours was a part of the CCC and you would like to learn more, please use the instructions below to retrieve those records from the military. Thanks again to our guest speaker, Martin Podskoch, for supplying us with these instructions.
CCC Records Instructions
HISTORY BOOKS
- B0026 – Town & Country – Waterbury Area Dr. Joseph Anderson (1896)
- B0027 – History of Litchfield County (1881)
- B0120 – Scrap Book of Newspaper Clippings “Oakville News”
- B0126 – Scrapbook: History of Pin Making
- B0130 – Scrap Books (3) Twice told tales about Waterbury
- B0150 – History of Waterbury by Henry Bronson, M.D. (1858)
- B0371 – Woodbury – History of Ancient (2 Vol.) by William Cothren
- B0376 – History of Waterbury & Naugatuck Valley v.1, v. 2, v. 3
- B0387 – Register of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Patriots Buried in Litchfield County (1976)
- B0411 – Conn. Union Soldiers in Southern Prisons 1
- B0466 – Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States During the War of Rebellion
- B0527 – Scrapbook – Mrs. B.C. Atwood
- B0535 – American Genealogy
- B0582 – Historical Sketch of Watertown
- B0606 – Tercentenary Pictorial History of Lower Naugatuck Valley
- B0686 – St. John the Evangelist Church
- B0694 – Scrapbook – Clippings
- B0732 – History of Ancient Westbury and Present Watertown From its Settlement to 1907
- B0738 – Nova Scotia School Committee
- B0739 – Probate Judge Election Leman Cutler
- B0752 – Historical Sketch & Mortality Record
- B0753 – The Old Burying Ground of Ancient Westbury to Present (1938)
- B0756 – Commemorative Book
- B0855 – Official Records of the Union And Confederate Navies in the War Of The Rebellion
- B0862 – Watertown Fire Department Books
- B1087 – Watertown Police Department Log Book 1949-1956
- B1092 – Watertown 150th Anniversary Book
- B1115 – Hometown Memories Book
- B1116 – House of Many Hats History Album Book
- B1117 – Infantry Training and Combat World War II Europe, a collection of letter and memories of William Bassford.
- B1130 – Book – The Old Nineteenth The Story of the Second Connecticut Heavy Artillery in the Civil War (2007)
GENEALOGY BOOKS
- B0039 – Reunion of Descendants of Nathaniel Merriman at Wallingford CT 191
- B0245 – The Hereditary Register of the United States of America 1972
- B0335 – Genealogy of the Noble Family – By Charles Merriman Nobel
- B0390 – Genealogical and family history of the state of Connecticut, 4 Volumes – Lewis Historical Publishing Company 1911
- B0415 – Genealogy of the Botsford Family by Botsford Family Historical Association
- B0462 – Illustrated Popular Biography of Connecticut, 1891.
- B0507 – Scrapbook – Childs
- B0530 – Dr. Henry Skilton and Descendents 1717 – 1921 and Supplement 1, 1927
- B0533 – Palmer Records, First Palmer Family Reunion, Stonington CT 1881 by Noyes F. Palmer
- B0534 – Thomas Barnes of Hartford and Farmington Connecticut and Barnes Family Yearbook volumes 1,2, and 3. by Trescott C. Barnes
- B0540 – Records and Pictures Catherine Barnes Hall and Family
- B0553 – Conn. Ancestry (3 Vol.) Stamford Genealogy Soc.
- B0585 – A History of the Dorchester Pope Family – 1634-1888 – Charles Henry Pope
- B0586 – Pope, Percy, Hickcox Genealogy
- B0587 – Peck Genealogy – descendants of Joseph Peck
- B0592AB – History of the Simon Mills Family Vols. II & III
- B0604 – Skilton Genealogy – Teeth of the Rake (Appendix)
- B0656 – History and Genealogy – Scott Family
- B0705 – The Family of Ephraim and Lydia (Rolph) Smith
- B0706 – Watertown Brides 1928 to 2000 Scrapbook
- B0730 – Lynn Family Reunion 1909 to 1981, volume 1
- B0825 – Susie – Biographical Tales by Evelyn M. Copeland
- B0842 – Genealogy Book Delphis & Maria Roberts
- B0844A – The Buckingham Family : Book II by Robert J. Buckingham
- B0914 – A Family Chronicle – Copes Family History
- B0915 – Bolt From the Blue By Ernest Pintoff
- B0919 – Fred and Jennie a Civil War Love Story by Ernest Barker
- B0938 – Lynn Family Reunion Cookbook
- B0948 – Edmund Scott Family Index
- B0949 – The Family of Edmund Scott 1996 Edition
- B0954 – The One and Only Cook Book – The Cook Family of Watertown, descendants of Captain Aaron Cook.
- B0958 – Lynn Family Album by Barbara Blumb
- B0969 – Scrap Book of Post marks
- B1085 – American and British Genealogy and Heraldry by P. William Filby
- B1088 – Founders and Patriots of Early American Families – Meredith Colket
- B1091 – Garnsey, Guernsey, Gurnsey Genealogical Dictionary by Judith L. Young-Thayer
- B1094 – Keilty Family Genealogy Album – Elly Keilty Swab
- B1099 – Weidemier Family Scrap Book – Walter Weidemier
- B1725 – Watertown Collection Graduation/Wedding Invitations – Erma Scott Post
- BL003 – Descendants of Michael Dayton (1722-1776) Watertown Connecticut.
- BL004 – The Hickcox Family – Compiled by Howard M. Hickcox
- BL005 – Genealogy from Russell Pope – handwritten notes in box
- BL005 – The Hotchkiss and the Hotchkiss Genealogy – (reel to reel tape)
- BL006 – American Pedigree of the descendants of Seymour R. and Marilla A. Smith – Compiled by Edward R. Smith
- BL007 – Vol 1, Watertown’s Early Families 4 Generations, Andrus to Dayton – Prepared by Edward R. Smith
- BL008 – Vol 2, Watertown’s Early Families 4 Generations, Deforest to Nettleton – Prepared by Edward R. Smith
- BL009 – Vol 3, Watertown’s Early Families 4 Generations, Platt to Woodward – Prepared by Edward R. Smith
- BL010 – Puritan Migration to Connecticut – the saga of the Seymour Family by Malcolm Seymour
- D0086 – First Census of the United States 1790 – Connecticut
The museum also has other resources in its collection that aren’t listed on the website. If the above listed books aren’t what you are looking for and you need further research assistance, please fill out our Research Request Form and one of our volunteers will get back to you with the information you have requested.
- Mattatuck Museum offers stories of African Americans, free and enslaved, who lived in Westbury (Watertown) in the 18th Century. See Fortune’s Story
- Christopher G. McPherson created a website, PlasticLiving.com, that contained information about the Watertown Manufacturing Co., and its designer, Jon Hedu. The website is no longer working but you can access the website via the Wayback Machine (as of April 2024).
- Town of Watertown
- Connecticut Museum of Culture and History
- Connecticut League of Museums
- Connecticut State Library