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Roger Ludlow (1590–1664) was an English lawyer, magistrate, military officer, and colonist. He was active in the founding of the Colony of Connecticut, and helped draft laws for it and the nearby Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Jun 6, 2016 · Roger Ludlow. Ludlow, an Oxford-educated lawyer, had some success in politics – serving as deputy governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and lieutenant governor of Connecticut. But his main contribution to the settlement of New England was his codification of laws for Connecticut.
Apr 2, 2024 · Roger Ludlow was Deputy Governor of Massachusetts in 1637 and Chief of the Commission sent in 1639 to govern Connecticut. In Connecticut, he was a magistrate to the General Court, and purchased the land that would become Norwalk, Connecticut.
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Roger Ludlow, the colonial lawmaker. New York, London, G.P. Putman's sons, 1900. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/00006110/>.
1650 — Roger Ludlow. Born in 1590, died after 1664, one of the founders of Connecticut. Educated at Oxford and admitted to the Inner Temple to study law, he was elected (1630) an assistant of the Massachusetts Bay Company and in the same year sailed to America.
In 1639, at the age of 58, his occupation is listed as 1st, 4th and 10th lieutenant governor of connecticut in Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. He died in 1666, in Dublin, Ireland, at the age of 76, and was buried in Dublin, Ireland.
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Fairfield was known until 1650 by its Native American name, Uncoway (the “place beyond”). It owes its existence as a European settlement to Roger Ludlow, an English Puritan who was a leader in the Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut colonies.
