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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.
- Hartford Wide-Awakes
The Wide-Awakes in Hartford were a political club organized...
- Lion Gardiner
The 15 patentees commissioned their first governor, John...
- Pequot War
Pequot War (1636-1637) Though the major engagements of the...
- Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
The Fundamental Orders, inspired by Thomas Hooker’s sermon...
- Connecticut's Oldest English Settlement
Map of Connecticut showing the settlements in 1670 from...
- John Winthrop Jr
Four years later, Winthrop received a commission to found a...
- Alse Young
On May 26, 1647, Alse Young of Windsor was the first person...
- Milford
The city of Milford, located in New Haven County, is in the...
- Hartford Wide-Awakes
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 .
Sep 20, 2012 · Map of Connecticut showing the settlements in 1670 from Historical Sketches of Meriden by G.W. Perkins. In 1633, Windsor became Connecticut’s first English settlement. This was due to its desirable location at the juncture of the Farmington and Connecticut Rivers, its rich and fertile soil, and, perhaps most importantly, to a 17th-century war ...
- Adriaen Block Explores The Connecticut River Valley
- Dutch Trading Posts and The Pequot
- Plymouth Colony and The Dutch at Saybrook Point
- Warwick Patent and The Warwick Patentees
- The House of Hope and The Plymouth Fort at Windsor
- Plymouth Fort at Windsor
- John Oldham and Establishment of Wethersfield
- English Settlement at Windsor
- Warwick Patentees Establish Saybrook Colony
- Thomas Hooker Establishes Hartford
The first European to explore the area that became the Connecticut Colony was Dutch trader Adriaen Block. He sailed up the Connecticut River in 1614 for the Dutch West India Company. The purpose of his expedition was to explore the area, map it, and claim the eastern coast of New Netherland for the Dutch. The mouth of the Connecticut River was nort...
The Dutch wanted to control the fur trade with the Native American Indians in the area — mostly the Pequot Tribe. The Dutch and Pequot first encountered each other in 1614. In order to control trade with the Indians, the Dutch set up trading posts along the Connecticut River. For the most part, the Dutch were able to avoid conflict with their Engli...
In September 1620, the Pilgrims — a group of Puritan Separatists — left England and sailed to the New World. They made their voyage across the ocean in the Mayflower and established a permanent settlement on Cape Cod Bay, east of the territory of New Netherland. On November 3, King James I granted the “Great Patent of New England” to the Council fo...
In 1631, the head of the Council for New England, Robert Rich, the Earl of Warwick, created a document that granted land to a group of “Lords and Gentlemen” — known as the Warwick Patentees — for land in New England. The land was part of the territory under the control of the Council for New England. The patent is sometimes referred to as “Old Pate...
In 1632, the Governor of New Netherland, Wouter Van Twiller, sent Captain Hans Eechuys to Saybrook Point. When he arrived, he bought the land from the local Indians and then built a small trading post which he called Kievets Hook. The following year, 1633, the Dutch traders built a fort further north up the river, which they called “Huys de Hoop.” ...
However, the English responded by building their own fort. In late September 1633, a group of men from Plymouth Colony, sailing north, passed the Dutch fort and built their own trading post where the Farmington River flows into the Connecticut River. The English fort, under the command of William Holmes, had the advantage over the Dutch trading pos...
In 1633, John Oldham, a trader from Massachusetts, sailed up the Connecticut River and traded with Indians. In 1634, Oldman and a group of traders arrived at present-day Wethersfield, south of Hartford. On May 6, 1635, the inhabitants of Watertown, Massachusetts, were given permission by the Massachusetts Court to leave the colony, and they eventua...
On June 3, 1635, the inhabitants of Dorchester, Massachusetts were given permission by the Massachusetts Court to leave the colony and into the area near the Plymouth fort at Windsor. Two groups from Dorchester started to make preparations to move to Windsor. The first group, led by Roger Ludlow, arrived in the early fall. The second group, led by ...
In October 1635, the Warwick Patentees gave John Winthrop Jr. a commission to be the first Governor of their colony, which would become Saybrook. In November, the Saybrook Company took possession of the mouth of the Connecticut River. On April 1, 1636, Winthrop and Lieutenant Lion Gardiner arrived at Saybrook Point to oversee the settlement. Winthr...
In 1636, more people left Massachusetts and moved to Connecticut. In June, another group of Puritans, led by Thomas Hooker, established a settlement at present-day Hartford, near the Dutch fort, in June. Hooker’s originally called the settlement Newtown. The settlement quickly grew and became the most important of the River Towns — Hartford, Wether...
- Randal Rust
Starting in 1636 they established small farming communities that witnessed rapid population growth-within a century the colony was home to 100,000 settlers. Though the Dutch began exploring Connecticut as early as 1614, the English were the first Europeans to put down roots in 1636. Under the leadership of Thomas Hooker, a prominent Puritan ...
Mar 5, 2019 · We in Windsor base our claim as first English settlement on the fact that Windsor has been continuously occupied by English-speaking people since September of 1633. The First English Settlement monument is located at the southern end of the Loomis Chaffee School campus. WHS collections 2014.1.16a.
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OAH Magazine of History 17, no. 4 (July 2003): 16–20. Pre-Colonization and Settlement (Up Through 1763) The arrival of Europeans to Connecticut shores drastically altered the region’s physical and cultural landscape. Thomas Hooker’s venture into the lower Connecticut River Valley facilitated the founding of the Connecticut Colony, and two ...
