- George T. Davis, Genealogy of the Davis Descendants of Colonel John Davis of Oxford, Conn. (New Rochelle, N. Y., 1910), 20.
- Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Historical Personalities of the Lower Naugatuck Valley, 13, 27 - 28, 29, 30, 44, 51.
- Norman Litchfield & Sabrina Connolly Hoyt, Ph.D., History of the Town of Oxford, Connecticut (1960), 55.
... Dec. 11, 1775 ... Committee of Inspection ...
- Ibid., 59.
- 1790 Derby Census.
[1 slave.]
- 1800 Derby Census.
- Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 647.
- Copied and compared with the original by Nancy O. Phillips, Sarah Riggs Humphrey Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Derby, Connecticut Town Records, 1655-1710 (New Haven, CT, The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company, 1901), 473, 474, 475, 476, 477, 479.
Church Records.
- Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 788.
Soldiers in the Revolution ...
Bradford Steel went, in 1775, as first lieutenant; was promoted to be captain.
- Arthur Walker, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Seymour Congregational Cemetery, 82.
- Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 238-9.
... After the war he was prominent in local industrial enterprises for many years ...
- Arthur Walker, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Seymour Methodist Cemetery, 86.
- Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 239.
- Arthur Walker, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Seymour Methodist Cemetery, 86.
Revolutionary War Marker.
- George T. Davis, Genealogy of the Davis Descendants of Colonel John Davis of Oxford, Conn. (New Rochelle, N. Y., 1910), 20.
- Copied and compared with the original by Nancy O. Phillips, Sarah Riggs Humphrey Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Derby, Connecticut Town Records, 1655-1710 (New Haven, CT, The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company, 1901), 473, 474, 475, 476, 477, 479.
Church Records.
- Compiled and edited by Jacqyelyn Ladd Ricker, The Ricker Compilation of Vital Records of Early Connecticut (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2006), 9947.
- Arthur Walker, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Seymour Methodist Cemetery, 86.
- Ibid., 86.
- Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 7, p 1764.
- Copied and compared with the original by Nancy O. Phillips, Sarah Riggs Humphrey Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Derby, Connecticut Town Records, 1655-1710 (New Haven, CT, The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company, 1901), 474.
Church Records.
- Selected and Introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts, Genealogies of Connecticut Families From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983), vol 1, p 315.
- George T. Davis, Genealogy of the Davis Descendants of Colonel John Davis of Oxford, Conn. (New Rochelle, N. Y., 1910), 20.
- Ibid., 20.
- Arthur Walker, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Seymour Congregational Cemetery, 83.
- Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 504.
- Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Historical Personalities of the Lower Naugatuck Valley, 27, 61.
- Arthur Walker, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Seymour Congregational Cemetery, 83.
- Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 647 - 648, 762.
- 1790 Derby Census.
- 1800 Derby Census.
- 1820 Derby Census.
- 1830 Derby Census.
- 1840 Derby Census.
- Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 437.
- Ibid., 241.
... enlisted about July 10, 1777, in the regiment commanded by Col. Enos, being then not quite sixteen years of age. he was taken prisoner at the battle near Fort Independence, Aug. 22, 1777, and confined at first in the 'Sugar House' and later on a prison ship in New York harbor. He was exchanged Aug. 16th 1778 ... in later years largely engaged in local manufacturing industries ...
- Arthur Walker, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Seymour Methodist Cemetery, 85.
- Samuel Orcutt, A History of the Old Town of Statford and the City of Bridgeport, Connecticut (Fairfield County Historical Society, 1886), 1336.
- Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 648.
- Arthur Walker, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Seymour Congregational Cemetery, 82.
Steele, Dea. Bradford, died Dec. 23, 1841, age 80 yrs. (Revolutionary War Marker, Flag).
- Copied and compared with the original by Nancy O. Phillips, Sarah Riggs Humphrey Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Derby, Connecticut Town Records, 1655-1710 (New Haven, CT, The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company, 1901), 476.
Church Records.
- Edited by Joseph Anderson, D. D., Town & City of Waterbury, Connecticut, From the Aboriginal Period to the Year Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-Five. (New Haven, The Price & Lee Company, 1896), Ap152.
- Compiled by Jerri Lynn Burket, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol. 50 - Waterbury (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2002), 35.
- George T. Davis, Genealogy of the Davis Descendants of Colonel John Davis of Oxford, Conn. (New Rochelle, N. Y., 1910), 21.
- Ibid., 21.
- W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 41, 42.
- Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Historical Personalities of the Lower Naugatuck Valley, 61.
- Rev. F. W. Chapman, The Buckingham Family; or the Descendants of Thomas Buckingham, One of the First Settlers of Milford, Conn. (Hartford, CT, Press of Case, Lockwood and Brainard, 1872), 48.
... of Exeter, N. Y. ...
- W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 9.
Admissions to Church Fellowship ...
1802 ...
Novr 4th, Joseph Lines,
Treat Loveland & Betty his wife,
Timothy Wheeler & Hannah his wife,
Isaac Riggs & Sarah his Wife,
Shelon Candee,
Timolthy Candee,
Hannah, Wife to Clark Loveland,
George Steel & Esther his wife.
1803.
March 3d, Ruth, Wife to Joseph Lines by letter from Pastor of Chh in Bethany.