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The U.S. state of Connecticut began as three distinct settlements of Puritans from Massachusetts and England; they combined under a single royal charter in 1663.Known as the "land of steady habits" for its political, social and religious conservatism, the colony prospered from the trade and farming of its ethnic English Protestant population.
The Connecticut Colony was one of two colonies (the other was the neighboring Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations) that retained its governor during the American Revolution. The last colonial governor, Jonathan Trumbull, became the state of Connecticut's first governor in 1776.
This is a list of the individual Connecticut year pages. In 1788, the Connecticut General Assembly of Connecticut Colony voted to break all ties with the British Empire , establishing itself as the State of Connecticut, amid the other Thirteen Colonies declaring independence and drafting constitutions during the American Revolution .
Served in the Connecticut Senate, as President Pro Tempore of the Connecticut Senate, as a member of the United States House of Representatives, and as Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court: Samuel Comstock: 1834 [1] [3] Lewis Gregory: 1836, 1837, 1838 [1] [3] Timothy T. Merwin: 1838 [1] [3] Algernon E. Beard: 1839, 1840, 1844, 1845 ...
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Mohegan Indians v. Connecticut (1705–1773) was the first indigenous land rights litigation in history in a common law jurisdiction. [1] James Youngblood Henderson, professor of law, calls the case "the first major legal test of indigenous tenure." [2] Robert Clinton calls it the "first formal litigation of North American Indian rights." [3]
A History of Connecticut: Its People and Institutions (1914) 608 pp; based on solid scholarship online; Federal Writers' Project. Connecticut: A Guide to its Roads, Lore, and People (1940) famous WPA guide to history and to all the towns online; Fraser, Bruce. Land of Steady Habits: A Brief History of Connecticut (1988), 80 pp, from state ...
The colonies of Virginia, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Massachusetts Bay were at one time or another charter colonies. The crown might revoke a charter and convert the colony into a crown colony. In a charter colony, Britain granted a charter to the colonial government establishing the rules under which the colony was to be governed.