Samuel Orcutt
{{Short description|American historian and genealogist}}
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Samuel Orcutt (c. 1824 – 1893) was an American historian and genealogist. He is the author of many books on Connecticut towns and family histories. Orcutt also wrote a history called The Indians of the Housatonic and Naugatuck Valleys.
Biography
Samuel Orcutt was born in Sullivan County, New York.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/hartford-courant-the-rev-samuel-orcutt/144870707/ |title=The Rev. Samuel Orcutt Killed |newspaper=Hartford Courant |page=1 |date=1893-01-16 |access-date=2024-04-06 |via=Newspapers.com}}
He was struck by a train and killed in Bridgeport, Connecticut on January 14, 1893.
Books
- History of the town of Wolcott (Connecticut) from 1731 to 1874, with an account of the centenary meeting, September 10 and 11, 1873; and with the genealogies of the families of the town. (Waterbury, Conn., Press of the American Printing Company, 1874)
- History of Torrington, Connecticut, from its first settlement in 1737, with biographies and genealogies. (Albany, J. Munsell, printer, 1878)
- The history of the old town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 : with biographies and genealogies / by Samuel Orcutt and Ambrose Beardsley. (Springfield, Mass. : Springfield Print. Co., 1880)
- [https://archive.org/details/ldpd_11727486_000 History of the towns of New Milford and Bridgewater, Connecticut, 1703-1882], (Hartford, Conn., Press of the Case, Lockwood and Brainard company, 1882)
- [https://archive.org/details/Ayer_250_1_C7_O6_1882 The Indians of the Housatonic and Naugatuck Valleys] (Hartford, Conn. : Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., 1882)
- A history of the old town of Stratford and the city of Bridgeport, Connecticut. (New Haven, Conn. : Press of Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1886)
- [https://archive.org/details/historyofcityofb00orcu A history of the city of Bridgeport, Connecticut] / by Rev. Samuel Orcutt. (New Haven, Ct. : Published under the auspices of the Fairfield County Historical Society, 1887)
- Henry Tomlinson, and his descendants in America : with a few additional branches of Tomlinsons, later from England / by Samuel Orcutt. (New Haven: Press of Price, Lee and Adkins Co., 1891)
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Category:Historians of Connecticut
Category:American genealogists
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