Selected cases from the New Haven County, County Court records focusing on famous cases (e.g., the Amistad Affair), prominent people (e.g., Benedict Arnold, Roger Sherman), other underrepresented groups (e.g., Latino/a/x, Asian and Pacific Islanders, Jewish, Irish), women (e.g., acting as attorney, divorce, domestic violence, prostitution), diseases (e.g., spreading infection, enforced quarantines), Ecclesiastical affairs and religious issues, indentured servitude, maritime disputes, minors and education, physically and mentally disabled, sexual crimes, transients, transportation revolution, wars and espionage (e.g., French Indian War, Revolutionary War, War of 1812), and witchcraft slander.
