The Connecticut Colony, originally known as the Connecticut River Colony, was an English colony in New England which later became the state of Connecticut...
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Massachusetts Bay Colony to form the Connecticut Colony, while other settlers from Massachusetts founded the Saybrook Colony and the New Haven Colony; both merged...
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Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. The colony joined Connecticut Colony in 1664. The history of the colony was a series of disappointments and failures...
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portions of Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, and Connecticut. The Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded by the owners of the Massachusetts Bay Company...
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The Saybrook Colony was a short-lived English colony established in New England in 1635 at the mouth of the Connecticut River in what is today Old Saybrook...
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John Winthrop the Younger (redirect from John Winthrop (Connecticut))
early governor of the Connecticut Colony, he played a large role in the unification of the colony's settlements into a singular colony and obtaining a royal...
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of Connecticut. In 1641, Springfield splintered off from the Hartford-based Connecticut Colony, allying itself with the Massachusetts Bay Colony. For...
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by the Connecticut Colony council on January 24 [O.S. January 14] 1639. The fundamental orders describe the government set up by the Connecticut River...
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of Rhode Island and Conanicut in a federation with Connecticut Colony and Massachusetts Bay Colony. Protest, open rebellion, and a further petition to...
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New Haven Colony (settled 1638, government from 1639). The Saybrook Colony merged with the Connecticut Colony in 1644, and the New Haven Colony was merged...
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of Connecticut. Four of the counties – Fairfield, Hartford, New Haven and New London – were created in 1666, shortly after the Connecticut Colony and...
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America included Connecticut Colony, the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Plymouth Colony, and the Province...
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first English colonists came from the Bay Colony and Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts. Original Connecticut Colony settlements were at Windsor in 1633; at...
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"Sustinet qui transtulit". When Connecticut Colony bought Saybrook in 1644, the seal transferred to Connecticut Colony. On October 25, 1711, the governor...
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Great Swamp Fight (section Connecticut Colony Regiment)
December 19, 1675. The colonial militia from Plymouth Colony, Connecticut Colony, and Massachusetts Bay Colony were led to the main Narragansett settlement in...
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up Connecticut in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Connecticut is a state in the United States Connecticut may also refer to: Connecticut Colony, an...
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Fenwick in 1639. It was the seal of the Saybrook Colony and was turned over to the Connecticut Colony at about the time that it purchased the land and...
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Pequot War in Connecticut Colony, and indirectly resulted in the attack and destruction of Mistick Fort (May 1637). The Saybrook Colony was established...
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settlement became the headquarters of the New Haven Colony, distinct from the Connecticut Colony previously established to the north centering on Hartford...
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predecessor of the Connecticut Senate) and three-member "committees" representing each of the three towns of the Connecticut Colony (Hartford, Wethersfield...
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check boisterous small landholders. The Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and Connecticut Colony were given their formal charters and Rhode...
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into Rhode Island. Connecticut did not have a royal charter that separated it from the Massachusetts Bay Colony; the Connecticut General Court was formed...
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John Haynes (governor) (category Colonial governors of Connecticut)
founders of the Connecticut Colony. He served one term as governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and was the first governor of Connecticut, ultimately serving...
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Mehetabel Huntington on July 16, 1731, in Windham, Connecticut Colony in present-day Scotland, Connecticut, which broke off from Windham in 1857. His house...
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body in Connecticut. Connecticut's government has operated under the direction of five separate documents in its history. The Connecticut Colony at Hartford...
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Guilford was admitted to New Haven Colony in 1643. In 1664, New Haven Colony, including Guilford, joined Connecticut Colony. The English settlement originally...
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Long Island, the Connecticut Colony, or Connecticut River Colony, was established in 1636. The Puritans established New Haven Colony separately in 1638...
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the Colony of Connecticut". National Humanities Institute. 1662. Retrieved February 21, 2009. Specific "Constitution of the State of Connecticut". CT...
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Thomas Hooker (category Founders of Hartford, Connecticut)
English colonial leader and Congregational minister, who founded the Connecticut Colony after dissenting with Puritan leaders in Massachusetts. He was known...
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Fundamental Orders of Connecticut New-Haven Colony; New Haven (Conn.); Hoadly, Charles J. (Charles Jeremy) (1857). Records of the colony and plantation of...
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