Reuben Rockwell was a farmer in, and a State senator for, Colebrook, Connecticut. The first items in this collection are a series of political letters. One from Rockwell to Daniel Ryan in March 1863, referred to the Copperheads as "Secession Traitors", described an exciting campaign for our election and had no kind words for Thomas Seymour. A letter to Rockwell from O. Loomis was also political in content, and the soldier wished he could be at home to help with the campaign and cast his vote. The bulk of the collection consists of transcriptions of records of town meetings, 1780-1787, and a history of the church along with transcriptions of baptismal records, and lists of members of the church with biographical notes about them.
