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The Saybrook Colony was a short-lived English colony established in New England in 1635 at the mouth of the Connecticut River in what is today Old Saybrook, Connecticut. Saybrook was founded by a group of Puritan noblemen as a potential political refuge from the personal rule of Charles I .
The Saybrook Colony was established in late 1635 at the mouth of the Connecticut River, in what is today Old Saybrook and environs. John Winthrop, the Younger , son of the Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony , was designated governor by the group that claimed possession of the land via a deed of conveyance from Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of ...
The Saybrook Colony was settled in 1635, by colonists sent by John Winthrop Jr. The colony was located on Saybrook Point, a readily defensible narrow peninsula projecting eastward at the mouth of the Connecticut River. The north side of the peninsula is a cove that was found be an adequate harbor for the young colony, and North Cove Road was ...
A Check List of American Eighteenth Century Newspapers in the Library of Congress. U.S. Government Printing Office; O. M. Dickerson (1951). "British Control of American Newspapers on the Eve of the Revolution". The New England Quarterly. 24 (4): 453– 468. doi:10.2307/361338. JSTOR 361338. Charles E. Clark (1991).
The Saybrook Platform was a new constitution for the Congregational church in 1708. Religious and civic leaders in Connecticut around 1700 were distressed by the colony-wide decline in personal religious piety and in church discipline. The colonial legislature sponsored a meeting in Saybrook comprising eight Yale trustees and other colonial ...
The first was the Saybrook Colony in 1635, based at the mouth of the Connecticut; it was followed by the Connecticut Colony (first settlement 1633, government from 1639) and the New Haven Colony (settled 1638, government from 1639). The Saybrook Colony merged with the Connecticut Colony in 1644, and the New Haven Colony was merged into ...
Newspaper Area County Frequency [verification needed] Circulation [verification needed] Publisher/parent company Athol Daily News [1] Athol: Franklin: Daily: Newspapers of New England, Inc. The Berkshire Eagle: Pittsfield: Berkshire: Daily: 23,835: New England Newspapers Inc. The Boston Globe: Boston: Suffolk: Daily: 245,572
In 1639 he settled with his wife and family in the Saybrook Colony at the mouth of the Connecticut River, as agent for the patentees and governor of the fort of Saybrook. [3] In 1642 upon the death of Native American leader, Wequash Cook , Fenwick took in Cook's son, Wenamoag, to raise, but it is unknown what happened to Wenamoag after Fenwick ...