Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 .
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.
Society and Economy in Colonial Connecticut (Princeton UP, 2014), a major scholarly study online. Peirce, Neal R. The New England States: People, Politics, and Power in the Six New England States (1976) pp 182–231; updated in Neal R. Peirce and Jerry Hagstrom, The Book of America: Inside the Fifty States Today (1983) pp 153–75; Peters, Samuel.
United States 1635: Old Saybrook: Connecticut: United States: Original Dutch settlement called Kievits Hoek. 1635: Hartford: Connecticut: United States: Settled by Dutch in 1635. Named Newton by English in 1636, then changed to Hartford in 1637. 1636 Scituate: Massachusetts: United States 1636: Springfield: Massachusetts: United States 1636 ...
Connecticut's land claims in the Western United States. The Connecticut Western Reserve was a portion of land claimed by the Colony of Connecticut and later by the state of Connecticut in what is now mostly the northeastern region of Ohio. The Reserve had been granted to the Colony under the terms of its charter by King Charles II. [1]
Map of the Connecticut, New Haven, and Saybrook colonies. Thomas Hooker left Massachusetts in 1636 with 100 followers and founded a settlement just north of the Dutch Fort Hoop which grew into Connecticut Colony. The community was first named Newtown then renamed Hartford to honor the English town of Hertford. One of the reasons why Hooker left ...
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.
1636 – Connecticut Colony founded by Thomas Hooker. 1636 – Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations founded by Roger Williams. 1636 – Harvard College founded. 1637 – New Haven Colony founded. 1638 – The Free Grace Controversy ended, when Anne Hutchinson was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.