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New Haven Colony was an English colony from 1638 to 1664 that included settlements on the north shore of ... New Jersey were among the communities that were founded.
History of the Colony of New Haven: Before and After the Union with Connecticut. Containing a Particular Description of the Towns which Composed that Government, Viz., New Haven, Milford, Guilford, Branford, Stamford, & Southold, L. I., with a Notice of the Towns which Have Been Set Off from "the Original Six.". Hitchcock & Stafford.
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
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 ...
Over the course of the colony's history it would absorb the neighboring New Haven and Saybrook colonies. The colony was part of the briefly-lived Dominion of New England . The colony's founding document, the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut has been called the first written constitution of a democratic government, earning Connecticut the ...
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 ...
James II creates a new colony by combining 7 colonies into the Dominion of New England. The Dominion includes all the Atlantic Colonies from New Jersey to New Hampshire. Sir Edmund Andros is appointed Governor. In 1686, he demands that the 7 Colonies Surrender their Charters; all are null and void. Connecticut ignores the initial request.
He was a large proponent of education in his colony and is often credited with the co-founding of Hopkins School. [8] As a burgess, he was an important figure in the colony up until his departure to Boston in 1668. He unsuccessfully opposed the incorporation of the New Haven colony into the reorganized colony of Connecticut under a royal ...