This manuscript contains the same title as the printed book (which is in the American Antiquarian Society library), both of which are entitled, History of the Colony of New-Haven before and after the Union with Connecticut. Containing a particular description of the towns which composed that government viz. New-Haven, Milford, Guilford, Branford, Stamford and Southold on Long Island: with a notice of the towns which have been set off from "the Original Six." Illustrated by fifty engravings. It was written by Edward Rodolphus Lambert (1808- ), from Milford, Connecticut. Also included is a genealogical sketch of the Lambert Family in Milford, Connecticut. The manuscript, with numerous corrections and emendations, contains all of the engravings (some are the original hand-drawn plates) included in the book, in addition to a detailed fold-out map of Milford, Connecticut, executed in 1835 by Edward R. Lambert, which is not in the book. There is a descriptive table of contents in the book which does not appear in the manuscript. In addition, the manuscript contains the printed "Order of Exercises" for the "Centennial Celebration" [i.e. Bicentennial] of the settlement of New Haven, 1838, with a printed copy of Psalm LXXX, and a badge glued in place. All are souvenirs of the celebration which do not appear in the printed edition. Lambert provided valuable descriptions of the general history of the area and various towns, detailed specific events, and discussed numerous facets of early American life: religious, political and social. There is a poem, entitled "Old Milford," taken from the Connecticut Gazette, Vol. I, No. 4, 1835, as well as a "History of Milford, Connecticut," written by Lambert in June, 1836 for Historical Collections of Connecticut by John W. Barber. Neither the poem nor the sketch of Milford appears in the printed version.
