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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.
Connecticut Society in the Era of the American Revolution (pamphlet in the Connecticut bicentennial series) (1977) Pierson, George Wilson. History of Yale College (vol 1, 1952) scholarly history; Selesky Harold E. War and Society in Colonial Connecticut (1990) 278 pp. Taylor, John M. The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut, 1647–1697 ...
Nathaniel Foote (21 September 1592 – 20 November 1644), was an early English immigrant and surveyor to Connecticut who was born in Colchester, England.He was part of the settlement party that founded Wethersfield, Connecticut, the oldest town in that state. [1]
The Connecticut Museum of Culture and History, formerly the Connecticut Historical Society, is a private, non-profit organization that serves as the official state historical society of Connecticut. Established in Hartford in 1825, the Connecticut Museum is one of the oldest historical societies in the US. [1]
Called today "the Father of Connecticut", Thomas Hooker was a towering figure in the early development of colonial New England. He was one of the great preachers of his time, an erudite writer on Christian subjects, the first minister of Cambridge, Massachusetts , and one of the first settlers and founders of both the city of Hartford and the ...
Connecticut historian John Fiske was the first to claim that the Fundamental Orders were the first written Constitution, a claim disputed by some modern historians. [7] The Mayflower Compact has an equal claim 19 years before; however, this Order gave men more voting rights and made more men eligible to run for elected positions. [ 8 ]
When COVID-19 first hit in the spring of 2020, the Connecticut Historical Society quickly put out a call for photos, stories and artifacts that would convey the experience of living through a ...
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.