SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
FOUNDING OF THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES
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Thomas Hooker
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John Smith
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Roger Williams
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George Washington
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Detailed explanation-1: -From its founding by John Davenport and Theophilus Eaton in 1638, to the many famous people that have come from New Haven, this website covers a wide range of topics. Thomas Hooker was one of the first settlers to the New World that exhibited the democratic principles that the United States were founded upon.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1636, the English arrived when a large group of Puritans from Massachusetts led by Thomas Hooker founded the Colony of Connecticut at the city of Hartford. They came looking for freedom of religion.
Detailed explanation-3: -The man credited as the founder of Connecticut was Thomas Hooker, an English yeoman and clergyman born in 1586, at Marfield in Leicester, England. He was educated at Cambridge, where he received a Bachelor’s in 1608 and a Master’s in 1611.