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  2. Andrew Warde - Wikipedia

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    Coat of Arms of Andrew Warde. Andrew Warde was born in Sheffield, England, in 1597. [1] He emigrated to New England with the Winthrop Fleet, arriving at Watertown, Massachusetts Bay Colony, in 1633. [2] In Watertown, Warde assumed early prominence as a man of affairs; he was made a freeman of the town on May 14, 1634. His name is recorded in ...

  3. List of colonial governors of Connecticut - Wikipedia

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    John Winthrop the Younger was the governor of the combined Connecticut Colony in 1662, the year it received its royal charter. However, the regime change did not include an election for governor; Winthrop was merely retained in his position. The merger took three years to complete, during which time William Leete remained in New Haven.

  4. List of governors of Connecticut - Wikipedia

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    The governor of Connecticut is the head of government of Connecticut, and the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces.The governor has a duty to enforce state laws, and the power to either approve or veto bills passed by the Connecticut General Assembly and to convene the legislature. [2]

  5. Provincial troops in the French and Indian Wars - Wikipedia

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    Fourth Connecticut Regiment, under Colonel Andrew Ward, Junior. Connecticut voted 1,400 provincial soldiers for the campaign season of 1757. After the alarm created by the fall of Fort William Henry the province mobilized five thousand men of the organized militia and sent them north as a temporary reinforcement against a feared French invasion ...

  6. Political party strength in Connecticut - Wikipedia

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    Governor Lt. Governor Secretary of State Treasurer Comptroller State Senate State House U.S. Senator (Class I) U.S. Senator (Class III) U.S. House; 1776 Jonathan Trumbull (I) [e] Matthew Griswold (F) George Wyllys: John Lawrence ... 1783 1784 Matthew Griswold (F) Samuel Huntington (F) 1785 1786 Samuel Huntington (F) [f] Oliver Wolcott (F) 1787 ...

  7. Bashing governor in publicly funded campaign ads is OK in ...

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    Connecticut's Supreme Court on Monday ruled that state elections officials violated the constitutional free speech rights of two Republicans running for the state legislature when it fined them ...

  8. Connecticut Colony - Wikipedia

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    The Connecticut Colony, originally known as the Connecticut River Colony, was an English colony in New England which later became the state of Connecticut. It was organized on March 3, 1636, as a settlement for a Puritan congregation of settlers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony led by Thomas Hooker .

  9. Connecticut declares state of emergency after 2 killed and ...

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    The governor of Connecticut declared a state of emergency after historic flooding left two dead and prompted hundreds of evacuations over the weekend, he said in a Monday news conference.