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    Thomas Hooker (July 5, 1586 – July 7, 1647) was a prominent English colonial leader and Congregational minister, who founded the Connecticut Colony after...
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    C. Hooker Sr. (1791–1885), a descendant of early New England leader Thomas Hooker, and his mother was Mary Daggett. He was sixth among 10 siblings: Amelia...
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    Puritan congregation of settlers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony led by Thomas Hooker. The English would secure their control of the region in the Pequot...
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    Daniel Preston Hooker (born 13 February 1990) is a New Zealand professional mixed martial artist and former kickboxer. He currently competes in the Lightweight...
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  • Thomas Hooker is a Republican politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. He is currently a member of the Michigan House of Representatives, representing...
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    present-day Downtown and Sheldon/Charter Oak neighborhoods. Puritan pastors Thomas Hooker and Samuel Stone, along with Governor John Haynes, led 100 settlers...
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    major settlements were established by the English around the same time. Thomas Hooker led a band of followers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony to form the...
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    Thomas Rhys Thomas (born 23 April 1982 in Abercynon, Wales) is a former Wales International rugby player. His usual position was at hooker. Thomas made...
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  • Tom Hooker or Thomas Barbéy (born Thomas Beecher Hooker on November 18, 1957) is an American singer and fine art photographer. He was the voice and one...
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    Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (30 June 1817 – 10 December 1911) was a British botanist and explorer in the 19th century. He was a founder of geographical botany...
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  • Morehouse and Taylor. p. 58. Hooker, Edward, and Margaret Huntington Hooker (ed.) (1908). The Descendants of Rev. Thomas Hooker, 1586–1908. Rochester, N.Y...
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  • member as Officer Jim Corrigan. The background of Sergeant Thomas Jefferson "T. J." Hooker is that he, up until recently, was a plainclothes LCPD Detective...
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    having descended from Thomas Hooker, a prominent Puritan religious and colonial leader who founded the Colony of Connecticut. Hooker attended Yale College...
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  • Finn Theobald-Thomas (born 26 April 2003) is an English rugby union Hooker who plays for Leicester Tigers. He began his career at his hometown club Wolverhampton...
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    template Infobox NFL biography is being considered for merging. › Alan Hendon Hooker (born January 13, 1998) is an American professional football quarterback...
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    Hooker County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 711. Its county seat is Mullen, which...
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    Sir William Jackson Hooker (6 July 1785 – 12 August 1865) was an English botanist and botanical illustrator, who became the first director of Kew when...
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    persistently rumoured that the 18th century vicar Dr Thomas Hooker was involved.: 60  However, the other face of Hooker was his devotion to education. He opened schools...
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  • surname include: Amani Hooker (born 1998), American football player Brad Hooker (born 1957), English philosopher Cameron Hooker, American man sentenced...
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  • word quinetucket, which means "beside the long, tidal river". Reverend Thomas Hooker and John Haynes led a group of about 100 who, in 1636, founded the settlement...
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    Richard Hooker (25 March 1554 – 2 November 1600) was an English priest in the Church of England and an influential theologian. He was one of the most important...
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  • Hartford, Connecticut, who was a direct descendant of Puritan minister Thomas Hooker. Notable relatives in the acting world include her aunt Katharine Houghton...
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    in New England; the "preparationist" preachers such as Thomas Hooker, Peter Bulkley, and Thomas Shepard taught that good deeds and morality were necessary...
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    Thomas Hooker and others to go off and form their own colonies. Deciding that he didn't want to be involved in the animosity, he – like Rev. Thomas Hooker...
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    William Hooker Gillette (July 24, 1853 – April 29, 1937) was an American actor-manager, playwright, and stage manager in the late 19th and early 20th centuries...
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    also a Puritan center, and Haynes was greatly influenced by the pastor Thomas Hooker, who was a close friend. In about 1630, John Winthrop and John Humphreys...
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  • Brian S. Hooker a biologist and chemist who was department chair and Professor Emeritus of Biology at Simpson University. He is known for promoting the...
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    united to form the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Thomas Hooker left Massachusetts in 1636 with 100 followers and founded a settlement...
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  • was used in the Gunpowder Day sermon of the English Puritan preacher Thomas Hooker (5 November 1626). It is also used in Shakespeare's play Henry VIII...
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  • sailed the Great Lakes in the late 17th century. Hooker, Edward (1909). The Descendants of Rev. Thomas Hooker, Hartford, Connecticut, 1586-1908. Retrieved...
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