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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 .
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.
Robert Coe (1596 – bef. 1690) was an early English settler, public official, and a founder of five towns in Connecticut and New York: Wethersfield, Stamford, Hempstead, Elmhurst, and Jamaica. Coe took passage from England to the Americas in 1634 during the Puritan migration to New England .
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.
The Saybrook Colony merged with the Connecticut Colony in 1644, and the New Haven Colony was merged into Connecticut between 1662 and 1665 after Connecticut received a royal charter. 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 ...
Thomas Welles (c. 10 July 1594 – 14 January 1660) is the only person in Connecticut's history to hold all four top offices: governor, deputy governor, treasurer, and secretary. In 1639, he was elected as the first treasurer of the Colony of Connecticut , and from 1640 to 1649 served as the colony's secretary.
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 colony joined Connecticut Colony in 1664. [2] The history of the colony was a series of disappointments and failures.
Matthew Marvin Sr. (bapt. March 26, 1600 [2] – December 20, 1678) was a founding settler of Hartford and Norwalk, Connecticut.He served as a deputy of the General Court of the Colony of Connecticut from Norwalk in the May 1654 session.