Samuel Orcutt (c. 1824 – 1893) was an American
historian
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and
genealogist
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. He is the author of many books on
Connecticut
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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
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.
He was struck by a train and killed in
Bridgeport, Connecticut
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on January 14, 1893.
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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)
*
History of the towns of New Milford and Bridgewater, Connecticut, 1703-1882
', (Hartford, Conn., Press of the Case, Lockwood and Brainard company, 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)
*
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)
References
1820s births
1893 deaths
American historians
Historians of Connecticut
American genealogists
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