Articles of Incorporation, Secretary of the State, 1837-1945

This is an index to articles of incorporation kept by the Commercial Recording Division of the office of the Secretary of the State. There are three types of entity covered by this index:

<ul><li>Joint stock companies, 1837-1909</li><li>Chartered companies, 1874-1945</li><li>Voluntary associations without capital, 1845-1943</li></ul>

Articles of incorporation/company charters were originally granted solely by the General Assembly, which continued to grant them up through the 20th century. If a company or organization does not appear here, check the following indexes to private and special acts of the state of Connecticut:

<ul><li><a href="https://cscu-csl-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=01CSCU_NETWORK_ALMA7174636440003451&amp;context=L&amp;vid=CSL_V1&amp;search_scope=CSL_ALMA&amp;isFrbr=true&amp;tab=default_tab&amp;lang=en_US" target="_blank">A General Index to the Private Laws and Special Acts of the State of Connecticut&nbsp;by&nbsp;Connecticut. General Assembly</a>&nbsp;(1789-1943), Call Number: KFC3625.A21 Index 1943</li><li><a href="https://cscu-csl-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=01CSCU_NETWORK_ALMA7173967430003451&amp;context=L&amp;vid=CSL_V1&amp;search_scope=CSL_ALMA&amp;tab=default_tab&amp;lang=en_US" target="_blank">Index to Connecticut Special Acts&nbsp;by&nbsp;Cheryl Fox, Debra Pond, and Lindsay Cawley</a>&nbsp;(1944-2022), Call Number: KFC3625.A245 Index</li></ul>

To request a digital of physical copy of an incorporation document, please contact the staff of the <a href="https://libguides.ctstatelibrary.org/hg/home" target="_blank">History & Genealogy Unit</a> by telephone (860) 757-6580 or <a href="https://portal.ct.gov/csl/Email-Us?language=en_US" target="_blank">email</a>. There may be a small fee, depending on the size of the order and whether you would like a digital or physical copy. When requesting a copy of a record or file, please include the information from the relevant entry in the index.

Querying over HTTP

Splitgraph serves as an HTTP API that lets you run SQL queries directly on this data to power Web applications. For example:

curl https://data.splitgraph.com/sql/query/ddn \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d@-<<EOF
{"sql": "
    SELECT *
    FROM \"internal-ct-data-socrata/articles-of-incorporation-secretary-of-the-state-d6nh-4hia\".\"articles_of_incorporation_secretary_of_the_state\"
    LIMIT 100 
"}
EOF

See the Splitgraph documentation for more information.