Place:Derby, New Haven, Connecticut, United States

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Derby - settled 1651, named 1675. - Ricker, 8.

Derby Vital Records Transcript at the Connecticut State Library and NEHGS

"The vital records of Derby prior to 1852 are found scattered through the first seven volumes of Land Records, the first book of Town Meetings and Volume 1 of Births, Marriages and Deaths.

This alphabetical list was taken from a set of cards based on the publication in 1901 of volumes 1 and 2 of Land Records under the title 'Town Records of Derby, Connecticut, 1655-1710' by the Sarah Riggs Humphreys Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, and a manuscript copy of the later vital records made in 1914 by Miss Ethel L. Scofield, of New Haven, Conn. Reference to the printed book is indicated by the original pagination and volume numbers of the Land Records, to Volumes 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 of Land Records by the volume number and the abbreviation 'LR' and to the book of Town Meetings by the abbreviation 'TM'.

The Scofield Copy, now in the possession of the Connecticut State Library, has not been compared with the original and doubtless errors exist. It is hoped that as errors or omissions are found notes will be entered in this volume and on the cards which are included in the General Index of Connecticut Vital Records also in the possession of the Connecticut State Library.

Hartford, Conn., August, 1925."

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Derby ('dər-bē) is a city in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States, approximately 8 miles west-northwest of New Haven. It is located in southwest Connecticut at the confluence of the Housatonic and Naugatuck Rivers. It borders the cities of Ansonia to the north and Shelton to the southwest, and the towns of Orange to the south, Seymour to the northwest, and Woodbridge to the east. The population was 12,325 at the 2020 census. It is the smallest city in Connecticut by area, at 5.3 square miles.

Derby was settled in 1642 as an Indian trading post under the name Paugasset. It was named after Derby, England, in 1675. It included what are now Ansonia, Seymour, Oxford, and parts of Beacon Falls.

Derby is home to the first electric trolley system in New England, only the second in the United States. It is also home to the first electric locomotive in U.S. history to be built and successfully used commercially for hauling freight. The locomotive, built in 1888, is still kept in running condition by the Shore Line Trolley Museum.