Samuel Orcutt (c. 1824 â 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.
He was struck by a train and killed in Bridgeport, Connecticut on January 14, 1893.
Books
- ' (Waterbury, Conn., Press of the American Printing Company, 1874)
- ' (Albany, J. Munsell, printer, 1878)
- ' / 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)
- ' (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)
- ' / by Samuel Orcutt. (New Haven: Press of Price, Lee and Adkins Co., 1891)
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