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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 .
Reverend Thomas Hooker and John Haynes led a group of about 100 who, in 1636, founded the settlement of Hartford, named for Stone's place of birth: Hertford, in England. Called today "the Father of Connecticut," Thomas Hooker was a towering figure in the early development of colonial New England.
Connecticut historian John Fiske was the first to claim that the Fundamental Orders were the first written Constitution, a claim disputed by some modern historians. [7] The Mayflower Compact has an equal claim 19 years before; however, this Order gave men more voting rights and made more men eligible to run for elected positions. [ 8 ]
Connecticut was founded by Puritans from the Massachusetts Bay Colony between 1635 and 1636. The first settlers founded three towns on the Connecticut River in Windsor, Wethersfield, and Hartford, Connecticut, [2] and one of the main purposes of the Fundamental Orders was to formalize the relationship among these settlements. The foundation of ...
Governors of the Connecticut Colony No. Governor [1] [2] Term in office [1] [2] Party Deputy Governor 1 John Haynes (1594–c. 1653) 1639 – 1640: No party Roger Ludlow: 2 Edward Hopkins (1600–1657) 1640 – 1641: No party John Haynes: 3 John Haynes (1594–c. 1653) 1641 – 1642: No party George Wyllys: 4 George Wyllys (1590–1645) 1642 ...
Welles was chosen a magistrate of the Colony of Connecticut that same year. He held the office for twenty-two years until his death in 1660, a period of twenty-two years. [2] In Connecticut, his wife Alice died. Welles remarried in 1646, to Elizabeth (Deming) Foote. [8] She was the widow of Nathaniel Foote (who founded
Thomas Hooker (July 5, 1586 – July 7, 1647) was a prominent English colonial leader and Congregational minister, who founded the Connecticut Colony after dissenting with Puritan leaders in Massachusetts. He was known as an outstanding speaker and an advocate of universal Christian suffrage.
The United Colonies of New England, commonly known as the New England Confederation, was a confederal alliance of the New England colonies of Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Saybrook (Connecticut), and New Haven formed in May 1643, during the English Civil War.