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New Haven Colony was an English colony from 1638 to 1664 that included settlements on the north shore of Long Island Sound, with outposts in modern-day New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. [1]
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 ...
The Fundamental Agreement of the New Haven Colony was signed on June 4, 1639. [1] The free planters (founders of the New Haven Colony ) who assented to the agreement are listed below: [ 2 ] William Andrews
Theophilus Eaton house, New Haven, Connecticut. Theophilus Eaton (c. 1590 —January 7, 1658) was a wealthy New England Puritan merchant, diplomat and financier, who took part in organizing and financing the Great Puritan Migration to America. [1] He was a founder of Massachusetts Bay Colony, and a founder and eventual governor of New Haven ...
Tudor Manor of Capt Yale's family in New Haven Colony, c. 1640. Captain Thomas Yale (1616 – 1683) was a British military officer, merchant and magistrate.He was a puritan who emigrated from London to the New England Colonies aboard the Hector in 1637, and cofounded, with his stepfather, Governor Theophilus Eaton, the colony of New Haven.
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.
David Atwater (October 8, 1615 – October 5, 1692) was a founder of the Colony of New Haven, Connecticut. He was the first of the New Haven Colony who was sworn a freeman of the United Colony. [ 1 ]
After the consolidation of New Haven Colony and the Colony of Connecticut, he became Governor of the Colony of Connecticut from 1676 to 1683. He is the only man to serve as governor of both New Haven and Connecticut. [3] Leete is remembered for sheltering the Regicides William Goffe and Edward Whalley in Guilford. The two former English judges ...