Samuel Orcutt

Samuel Orcutt 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.
He was struck by a train and killed in Bridgeport, Connecticut on January 14, 1893.

Books

History of the town of Wolcott 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. History of Torrington, Connecticut, from its first settlement in 1737, with biographies and genealogies. The history of the old town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 : with biographies and genealogies / by Samuel Orcutt and Ambrose Beardsley. ',

' A history of the old town of Stratford and the city of Bridgeport, Connecticut. / by Rev. Samuel Orcutt. Henry Tomlinson, and his descendants in America : with a few additional branches of Tomlinsons, later from England / by Samuel Orcutt.