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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 .
Thomas Stanton (1616?–1677) was a trader and an accomplished interpreter and negotiator with Native Americans in the Connecticut Colony, one of the original settlers of Hartford. [2] He was also one of four founders of Stonington, Connecticut , along with William Chesebrough , Thomas Miner , and Walter Palmer .
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 Quinnipiac Native Americans, who were under attack by neighboring Pequots, had sold their land to Eaton and the settlers in return for protection. These settlers established the New Haven Colony. In 1662, the colony merged with the Connecticut Colony. The English Civil War took place from 1642 to 1651, and England was without a monarch ...
Uncas was born near the Thames River in present-day Connecticut, the son of the Mohegan sachem Owaneco. [1] Uncas is a variant of the Mohegan term Wonkus, meaning "Fox". [2] He was a descendant of the principal sachems of the Mohegans, Pequots, and Narragansetts. Owaneco presided over the village known as Montonesuck.
Representatives from Connecticut’s five sovereign tribal nations, the governor and other state leaders met in Hartford Wednesday to announce a historic collaboration between the Native American ...
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 ...
The Podunk were a Native American people who spoke an Algonquian Quiripi language and lived primarily in what is now known as Hartford County, Connecticut, United States. English colonists adopted use of a Nipmuc dialect word for the territory of this people. The Podunk are likely the Hoccanum people. [2]