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Nov 4, 2020 · Forced to choose between Anglican New York and Puritan Connecticut, the last holdouts in New Haven finally agreed to union with Connecticut in January 1665. John Davenport remained in New Haven until 1668, when he returned to Boston. He died in Boston in 1670, embittered and surrounded by controversy.
- New Haven Colony Founding
- Creation of Government
- Formation of New Haven
- Absorption by Connecticut
John Davenport and Theophilus Eaton arrived in Massachusetts Bay with the intention of building a new settlement. Davenport was a Puritan minister, and Eaton was a well-to-do merchant, and each had experience in fitting out vessels for the Massachusetts Bay Company. The two ships that they chartered arrived in Boston on June 26, 1637. They learned ...
New Haven's government was created on October 5, 1639, when the founders and colonists adopted the Fundamental Agreement. This agreement was similar to that of the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut. According to its terms, a court composed of 16 burgesses, i.e. voting citizens, was established to appoint a magistrate and officials and to conduct th...
The Plantation soon had neighboring settlements established by other groups of Puritans from England. Additional independent towns (called plantations) were established adjacent to New Haven Plantation. Milford and Guilford were established in 1639, and Stamford in 1640. Southold on the North Fork of Long Island was established by settlers from New...
As mentioned earlier, the New Haven Colony did not have a charter. The same was true for Connecticut. John Winthrop Jr. represented Connecticut and New Haven when he petitioned King Charles II for a charter. This resulted in the Charter of 1662, which the colonists in Connecticut considered an overwhelming success, but the settlers in New Haven hat...
May 26, 2021 · Hartford, CT: Connecticut Historical Commission, 1988. A timeline displaying the major events leading to Connecticut statehood, including its settlement by the Dutch, the origins of Hartford, Wethersfield, and Windsor, the founding of the Connecticut, New Haven, and Saybrook colonies, and Connecticut's acquisition of a formal charter from England.
New Haven Colony. New Haven Colony was an English colony from 1638 to 1664 that included settlements on the north shore of Long Island Sound, with outposts in modern-day New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. [1] The colony joined Connecticut Colony in 1664. [2] The history of the colony was a series of disappointments and failures.
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When Abigail Starbuck died in 1801, the Friends acquired a burial ground and eventually built a meetinghouse on the site. It is still there, surrounded by the final resting places of the families who left America in search of the Promised Land in Wales. This is the most evocative and poignant section of modern Milford Haven.
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New Haven (Newhaven), so named in 1640 expanded rapidly in its first decade. Central territories ceded by the Quinnipiak Tribe in treaties dated 1638 and 1645 were joined with Milford, Guilford, Branford, Stamford and Southhold (on Long Island) to form the New Haven Jurisdiction. This proved a temporary union.
