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Building Image Location Built Notes Henry Whitfield House: Guilford: 1639 Oldest surviving stone American Colonial house in New England, museum since 1899. [1] Buckingham House: Milford: 1640 Core dates to 1640 modifications in 1725 and 1753. NRHP. [2] [3] Feake-Ferris House: Greenwich: 1645 Core dates to 1645 modifications in 1689. [4] Thomas ...
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 .
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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.
Feake-Ferris House, circa 1645-1689, likely the first and oldest house in Greenwich Pastures, Greenwich, Connecticut (about 1890–1900) by artist John Henry Twachtman. On July 18, 1640, Daniel Patrick and Robert Feake, jointly purchased the land between the Asamuck and Tatomuck brooks, in the area now called as Old Greenwich, from Wiechquaesqueek Munsees living there for "twentie-five coates."
The Whitfield House served primarily as the home for Henry Whitfield, Dorothy Shaeffe Whitfield, and their nine children. [5] The house also served as a place of worship before the first church was built in Guilford, as a meetinghouse for colonial town meetings, as a protective fort for the settlers in case of attack, and as a shelter for travelers between the New Haven and Saybrook colonies. [7]