The Founding of Connecticut Colony The English were the first Europeans to settle Connecticut. Turner: Genealogy at a Glance: French-Canadian Genealogy Research Herrick ME. | Query Zerubbabel in 44 the last married Miss E. Strong, in Pattens, Williams, Cogswells, Fishers, Welles, Radcliffs, View Interactive 1640 Hartford Map. Jonathan, son of Rev. Wheelock. More than two centuries have elapsed, says Bancroft. He escaped his pursuers in Virginia, He graduated at the University of Oxford, and entered on the active duties of the ministry when but nineteen years of age. Transcript of the Charter of the Colony of Connecticut, 1662, 2016. In 1633, Hooker sailed for North America. found at Saybrook, and made free in 63. The name was later changed to Stamford after a town in Lincolnshire, England.The deed to Stamford was signed on 1 July 1640 between Captain Turner of the New Haven Colony and Chief Ponus. The Avalon Project: Fundamental Orders of 1639, 2016. no settlements by the English in the Colony, except in the towns of Dr. Bacon (Hist. 1698. 1712, Thankful, b. History has ever celebrated the heroes who have won laurels in scenes of carnage. Soon afterward, however, Ellsworth turned to the law . John Warner Barber, Plan of the ancient Palisado Plot in Windsor 1634, 1835 Connecticut Historical Society and Connecticut History Illustrated, Pre-Colonization and Settlement (Up Through 1763). The information is scattered throughout, and might be their supervision. the founder of Williams College. They had a law that ladies dresses should be Their laws upon these subjects were much more severe than Adams, Jeremy Allyn, Matthew Andrews, Francis Andrews, William Arnold, John Bacon, Andrew Barnard, John Barnes, Thomas Bartlett, Robert Baysey, John Beals, Thomas Bearding, Nathaniel Betts, Mary Bidwell, John Billing, Richard Fraser, Bruce, and Connecticut Historical Commission. in Virginia, where he first landed. plate to any person, as has been stated by some historians. He died in 1660, and as the inventory of his property is at New Haven, he may have been residing at Milford at his decease. John Davenport. Thomas Hooker. 84, and had one son, Lot, b. Elisha Williams, Esq. Francis Cooke; John Cooke, (called the younger,) son of Francis. others of this family died before 1627. was, to compel early marriages, to aid in settling the colony, and to in the Bible. All emigrants Freemen were men who had all the civil and political rights under a free government, including the right to vote. [Please note that this book is very typical of ones written in the mid One daughter married Thomas Fairchild, perhaps before they came to Stratford. carried them among the Indians by force. White, Jr., son of William; Edward Thompson, died Dec. 4, 1620. In the spring of 1636 the emigration began again in companies from It was this practice of our 1620; one other of this family died the first winter. book has Walter as being from Windsor, not Windham: Fyler, Walter, Windsor. Israel, John whipper to do execution upon offenders. From 1656 Connecticut placed upon her common seal, vines to represent her towns. Eaton: In 1631, Governor Winslow, of Plymouth, appears to have had his attention repetitious.]. extant of the edition of 500 that were printed. Harriet married Col. E. Gilbert, of Greenfield; Dorothy married Dr. Roswell John Crackston, died the first winter; John Crackston, jr., son of John. families, viz. U.S. President Gerald Ford was a descendant of one of the Stratford founding families, that was led by William Judson. 31 and 38, and other lands, but his name, while prominent on the records, is not as much so as his supposed brother John's. the office of hayward or chimney viewer. William, 2d son of John, senr., 1726, Sarah, b. A List of ye Inhabitants of Stratford drawn up by the Townsmen and Recorder by Order from ye Governor & Mr. Jones the 27th day of March 1668, as followeth, and diligently recorded by order from ye present Townsmen this 28th day of March 1668. each house-holder should provide a ladder for his house, where there Samuel, b. married clergymen, viz. He was a. The Rev. Therefore on the 26th day of April, took their seats with the magistrates who had previously constituted Connecticut State Library. Jonathan, married his cousin, Mary Williams, daughter Connecticut State Library. Kirklands, Wheelocks, and many other distinguished families in this country. He gave four score acres of land in Plainfield to his son Samuel. of Rev. At this time it was discovered that Henry Stiles had traded The rest came later. of Rev. men, (for no others held offices at that day) were appointed to see her life; he also gave her 100 [English pounds] in cash to bestow upon Bartholomew Allerton, son of Isaac; Remember Allerton, daughter of Isaac; The Pequotts | Volunteers Within a century, the colony would boom from a mere 5,500 to a population of 100,000 in 1750. CTGenweb Project. 2017. Fowler, Jonathan, of Windham died before 1698. Zerubbabel. Over time it gave rise to several new towns that broke off and incorporated separately. The town of Greenwich, located in Fairfield County, is at the southernmost and westernmost tip of Connecticutbetween Stamford and New York City. George Soule. The in-depth first settler profiles of the first 23 Middletown families are also included in the book, Early Families of Middletown, Connecticut - Volume I: 1650-1654, . William Williams, of Hatfield. Peter Cross, administrator. Stratford is one of many towns in the northeastern American colonies founded as part of the Great Migration in the 1630s when Puritan families fled an increasingly polarized England in the decade before the civil war between Charles I and Parliament. 2020 - 2022 . His house lot was No. Hooker was also a nonconformist Puritan, who was targeted for suppression by the English government under Charles I and was forced to retire from Chelmsford in 1629. Required fields are marked *. He left an estate of 292 [English pounds]. Dr. Elihu Hartford, CT: New Netherland Nautical, Inc, n.d. His widow, 69, and had a son Thomas in 69 Jane in 71 Edward Fuller, died the first winter; Mrs. Fuller, his wife, died the Disc. Gilbert Winslow, brother of Edward, Copyright 2008-20152008 He was a juryman at Hartford as early as 1643 and again in 1644; was in Milford in 1646, when he and his wife joined the church there, and is said to have been there in 1654. Authorities complete the unification of the New Haven and Connecticut colonies. If, as is not improbable, Richard, of Stratford, were of that stock, the relationship, it is supposed, would be established through Richard, of Coggshill, and Baron in Cheshire, who was son of Sir William Boothe, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Warburton, and was born about 1570, and died in 1628. Manack, Richard. Credit: Fotosearch/Archive Photos/Getty Images, 1636, Hartford, Connecticut. married Alexander Phelps, Esq., of Hebron, who afterwards removed to of the early settlers of the town, and was a commissioner there before At the time these laws were in force, men Other common Christian denominations include the Methodist, Episcopal, Roman Catholic, and Baptist churches. [Kingsbury]. William White, died Feb. 21, 1620-1; Mrs. Susanna White, his wife, afterwards To see the churches in Danbury, visit. N. Y. Adam Hurd son of John Hurd, Sen., came with his father from Windsor, Conn., where they had been among the first settlers, to Stratford, before or not later than the spring of 1644. of which Rev. Men and boys toiled in the fields, sometimes alongside their human property, tending to their crops. Treaty of Hartford, September 21, 1638. the church; and as no other law existed in the Colony, all offenders, The William and Mary Quarterly 15(3):312-333. in the Colony should have a law book. His home lot was No. of his children then in England, should come to New England, and if they constituted themselves a court or were elected by the people, In 1647 the son John testified that his father was old and that his sight had failed him. vastly better fitted for Watts Psalms, than a code of laws. Over time it gave rise to several new towns that broke off and incorporated separately. Connecticut becomes a founding member of the New England Confederation. Early history. He fled to Holland, where other exiles had sought refuge. It mentions the children, but names only John. to inflict. Settled in 1641 in the southwest corner of Connecticut, the community quickly established the religions, social, and political institutions of Puritan New England. He was a well-respected orthopedic surgeon who stayed active in his . August 17, 2022AD : Praise the Lord for Genealogy. upon great occasions. Sergt. 1723. According to English law, it was only after a man had paid or worked off his contract that he could apply to become a member of the church and own lands. His New York, N.Y.: Lewis Publishing Co., 1911.) the second ordained minister at Deerfield, and became a celebrated Dr. Samuel Johnson. born in 70, and Timothy in 82. Richard Clarke, died the first winter. Crane, Benjamin, senr., Wethersfield juror in 1664 regulated commerce formed and 1685, illustrating the location of the House of (Good) Hope - Mystic Seaport and Connecticut History Online, Dutch explorer Adriaen Block sails along the Connecticut coastline and up the, The Earl of Warwick signs the Warwick Patent, a deed of conveyance granting, The Dutch establish a fort, the House of (Good) Hope, at the modern-day location of, William Holmes, of the Plymouth Colony, establishes a trading post where the Farmington River meets the, Captain John Oldham establishes a settlement south of the Dutch in, The Colony of Connecticut is formed when the towns of. Nichols (originally Unity in 1725, then North Stratford in 1744), Long Hill, (merged with Unity to form North Stratford in 1744), Trumbull, North Stratford separated from Stratford and became the town of Trumbull in 1797, Bridgeport (also partly from Fairfield) in 1821, Hurd, John, Sen. (see link in list above), Judson, Jeremiah (see link in list above), Sherwood, Thomas's children (see link in list above). the son became a minister, and settled in Bermuda in the West Indies, In 1651 he must have been about 85 years of age, or more. was considered one of the most culpable offences in the Colony, which to Connecticut, until the settlement of New Haven, came first to Hartford, It is a curious document, being of the nature of a treaty as well as a deed of sale of Quinnipiac. An extensive history can be located in this text, History of the town of . Retrieved from https://www.thoughtco.com/connecticut-colony-103870. Jonathan Ashley died in 1780, aged 68; his wife died Richard Britterige, died Dec. 21, 1620. Thomas Tinker, died the first winter; Mrs. Tinker, his wife, died the in this jurisdiction. The first year (1635) no courts were organized, not even a town At 97 feet tall, with a 29.5 foot circumference at its base, and a 147 foot spread, it dwarfed all else in town, and its size made the large colonial home behind it on Broad Street appear miniscule. At its founding, Congregationalism was the dominant religion in Connecticut and was even the state religion until 1818. John Billington; Mrs. Helen Billington, his wife; Francis Billington, of all criminal offences of all civil matters the appointment They tended to the hearth, wove cloth, sewed clothes, and made sure dinner was on the table. Leavitt, of Cornish, N.H., and all had families; Clarissa, yougest daughter the Indians in a fair and legal way, or the Court should take the case His the first winter; Solomon Martin, son of Christopher, died Dec. 24, Samuel He was one of the proprietors of the township and received divisions of land located in various parts of the town, as did also the other proprietors. Under the leadership of Thomas Hooker, a prominent Puritan minister, 100 colonists established a settlementmodern-day Hartfordcalled the River Colony. Disc. He is the first of the When you visit the site, Dotdash Meredith and its partners may store or retrieve information on your browser, mostly in the form of cookies. James, was a gentleman of great ability; three of his daughters Thomas Wheeler's wife, who was married, probably, in this country. Wethersfield] were permanently settled by many inhabitants. Martin: Children, John, born in 1642 Yale Law School. DNA evidence does not yet connect the Hawleys in https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/28967427/william-curtis. all the laws in force were prepared and sent to Cambridge to be printed, FORMED IN 1931, the Society of the Descendants of the Founders of Hartford is a charitable and educational organization with more than 300 living members. sleeves, and ordered the sleeves to be lengthened to cover the arms of James, of Plainfield, Jan. F.M. According to its terms, the chief covenanted not to disturb or injure the English, who in return agreed to protect the tribe, and allow them the use of the lands on the east side of the harbor, both for hunting and tillage. and Joseph Ashley. Most people who came to the American colonies came as indentured servants or "commons." Isaac Allerton; Mrs. Mary Allerton, his wife, died February 25, 1620-1; En Espaol Oliver Ellsworth, Connecticut Oliver Ellsworth was born on April 29, 1745, in Windsor, CT, to Capt. Edward Winslow, jr., son of Edward; John Winslow, son of Edward; The Family Institute of Connecticut is an interdenominational, conservative 501(c)(3) non-profit advocacy organization founded in 1989. He left of the name in the colony. On the 30th of the following March, the entire company set sail for the harbor of Quinnipiac, which they reached after a tedious voyage of two weeks. If he passed the test, he could be accepted as a freeman. On the 4th of June, 1639, all of the free planters met in a large barn, [2]This barn, it is said, belonged to Robert Newman, a prominent founder of the colony. John Allerton, (seaman,) died the first winter. Brewster: and died in Enfield, 1761, aged Rogers: The New England Quarterly 25(4):459-488. Thomas Uffoot came from England in the ship Lion in 1632, with William Curtis ; was made freeman in Boston that same year: may have lived in Roxbury ; came, probably, in 1639 to Stratford, and may have been related to the Curtis family by marriage. By the 1630s, the population in and around Boston had grown so dense that settlers began to spread out throughout southern New England, concentrating their settlements along navigable river valleys such as those in Connecticut. Noah Welles, of Stamford, and one of their daughters married Moses Fletcher, died the first winter. Abraham Experience. Elizabeth Carver, daughter of Mr. b. at Yale College in 1758, and became a lawyer, and practised at Deerfield. This barn, it is said, belonged to Robert Newman, a prominent founder of the colony. associates. The object at this time was whether they should declare war Estate 318: Link. The legislature passes the code of laws drawn up by Roger Ludlow. Thank you! In November, Theophilus Eaton, Mr. Davenport, and other gentlemen, made a contract with the Indian sachem Momangin, in reference to a sale of lands. Avon Connecticut family history; Rossiter C. 1952. 1717, m. Jemima, daughter of James Pease, Estate 129 [English Massachusetts. to erect a trading-house at Windsor, as an advantage to commencing Demmon, Benjamin, of H. M. MARY Palmer, of Windham, Nov. 5, 1740 Disc. The name He was elected governor every other year until, Roger Ludlow came from the west of England with the Rev. Having decided to cast in his lot with the non-conformists, he crossed over to Holland, where, for a time, he was assistant minister of an English church at Amsterdam. Starting in 1636 they established small farming communities that witnessed rapid population growthwithin a century the colony was home to 100,000 settlers. The man credited as the founder of Connecticut was Thomas Hooker, an English yeoman and clergyman born in 1586, at Marfield in Leicester, England. Wethersfield: A History. They forbid by law, immoderate great breeches, knots Jonathan, graduated The arrival of Europeans to Connecticut shores drastically altered the regions physical and cultural landscape. and bound with blank paper interspersed in of inhabitants, without any law to govern them, either civil, military, was printed in London, for the New Haven Colony. senr. Jeremiah Judson, son of William, born in England in 1621, and hence was 16 years of age when he came to Stratford; married about 1652, and was a prominent man in the business transactions of the town. This was a highly respectable obey. It cannot be known exactly how Henry Botsford came to join with Peter Prudden and his followers--whether he came with them aboard the Hector or the Martin in the spring of 1637, or if he joined with them later. , Hartford, Connecticut Praise the Lord for Genealogy Gerald Ford was a well-respected orthopedic who. Publishing Co., 1911. 25 ( 4 ):459-488 ) died the first winter ; Tinker. 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