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1.1 Founding as Quinnipiac. ... New Haven Colony was an English colony from 1638 to 1664 that included settlements on the ... A 19th-century map showing New Haven in ...
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 .
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 ...
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.
Guilford was admitted to New Haven Colony in 1643. [10] In 1664, New Haven Colony, including Guilford, joined Connecticut Colony. 1838 view of Guilford from the Green showing (left to right) the Academy, the Congregational Church, and the Town House. The English settlement originally shared the name Menunkatuck with the Quinnipiac village.
Theophilus Eaton's home was the largest in New Haven Colony, and one of the largest in New England at the time, with a total of 21 fireplaces, a household of about 30 people, and an estate covering 3000 acres in New Haven. [52] [53] [54] He also had estates in London and England. [27]
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A map of the Connecticut, New Haven, and Saybrook colonies. Founded by a group of Separatists and Anglicans, who together later came to be known as the Pilgrims, Plymouth Colony (in Massachusetts) was founded in 1620 by those who sailed aboard the Mayflower.