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Inspirational Quotes About Success "Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it." — Charles R. Swindoll “Change your thoughts, and you change your world.”—
Owing to his conflict with Cotton, discontented with the suppression of Puritan suffrage, and at odds with the colony leadership, [7] Hooker and the Rev. Samuel Stone led a group of about 100 [14] who, in 1636, founded the settlement of Hartford. It was named for Stone's birthplace, Hertford in England. [15] They founded the Connecticut Colony.
The Puritans were originally members of a group of English Protestants seeking "purity", further reforms or even separation from the established church, during the Reformation. The group is also extended to include some early colonial American ministers and important lay-leaders. The majority of people in this list were mainstream Puritans ...
He unsuccessfully opposed the incorporation of the New Haven colony into the reorganized colony of Connecticut under a royal charter in 1667. Davenport was a lifelong advocate of the rigorous Puritan standards for church membership and for the strict qualifications for infant baptism , which he believed should be administered only to the ...
"Life's a climb. But the view is great." There are times when things seemingly go to plan, and there are other moments when nothing works out. During those instances, you might feel lost.
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 .
Rubicon Press published The Rubicon Dictionary of Positive, Motivational, Life-Affirming, and Inspirational Quotations, compiled and arranged by John Cook, in 1993. 1997-2001. Fairview Press acquired all rights to the Rubicon edition, republishing the work in hardcover in 1996 as The Fairview Guide to Positive Quotations.
A group of New Haven colonists led by Robert Treat and others moved to establish a new community in New Jersey in 1666, seeking to maintain the Puritan religious exclusivism and theocracy that was lost with the New Haven Colony's merger with Connecticut Colony. Treat wanted to name the new community after Milford, Connecticut.