Connecticut

__Connecticut __

The colony was founded in the 1630s.
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__**First Settlement**__ 1635 - John Winthrop established the settlement of Old Saybrook. 1636 - Thomas Hooker and Roger Williams established the settlement of Connecticut Colony 1638 - John Davenport and Theophilus Eaton established the settlement of New Haven Colony. 1639 - all three settlements formed together to make the colony of Connecticut.

__**Group that Founded the Colony**__ Thomas Hooker and a group of Puritans from Massachusetts founded the colony.

Massachusetts Bay Colony was growing, but not all people agreed with the autocratic rule of how this colony was being governed. Thomas Hooker and a Puritan clergyman disagreed with the governing of their colony. They heard of fertile land to the south and convinced 100 others plus their families to move with them. Hooker believed in a government that was based on the consent of the governed (all Puritan church members could vote).
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__**Short Biography of Thomas Hooker**__ Thomas Hooker ws born in 1586 in Leicestershire. He later attended Cambridge University. Hooker was a devoted Puritan and became a reverend. He moved to Massachusetts with the pilgrims. In 1636 he led a group into what is now Connecticut after receiving permission to immigrate. In Connecticut he established the Hartford church. On July 7,1647 Thomas Hooker passed away.

__**Economic Activity of the Colony**__ The colony of Connecticut's economic activity is based on Rum, Shipbuilding, and General Farming.

__**Today's Capital**__ Today the capital is Hartford.

__**Type of Colony & Meaning**__ It was a Charter colony. This means that the colony was run by a king who granted a charter to the colonial government establishing rules under which the colony was to be governed.