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Dear Francine,
That is correct, the Battle of Ridgefield/Danbury raid destroyed town records. This has proven to create an issue for me in researching my family (Gilbert).
To quote from the website of the Childester family: "The entire area was pillaged and burned by the British. Town, Church and Family records perished. The only documents concerning the town and its inhabitants to survive were land records that were filed, fortunately, in other places. New Fairfield and Danbury are alternately shown as places of residence".
I would love to have seen the tape of the land records. Please contact me if you have any insight into the families of the 1700s, because the records concerning my Gilbert ancestors are a bit of a problem due to the raid.
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