Richard Boothe's name and those of his descendants are prominent on Stratford records. He purchased of the Indians a large tract of land in Derby, of which that town allowed him to retain the old Indian planting field, and also another tract which joined it, including Great Hill. the church; and as no other law existed in the Colony, all offenders, Credit: Fotosearch/Archive Photos/Getty Images, 1600s, Connecticut. Detail from the map Novi Belgii Novaeque Angliae nec non partis Virginiae tabula multis in locis emendata per Nicolaum Vissche, ca. Sincerely, 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. For several years after 1635, there were Dr. Skinner, late a Professor in the Theological Institution at Andover. Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center. Edmund, 3d John Alden. Rossiter C. 1952. They did not leave homes of comfort in England to seek the advancement of their material fortune. The legislature passes the code of laws drawn up by Roger Ludlow. regulated commerce formed and On the 14th of January, 1639, all of the free planters of the colony met at Hartford, and adopted the Constitution which is now recognized as the first Constitution ever written and adopted by the suffrages of a people. CTGenweb Project. He is also supposed to have been the father of Lieut. against the most To the church of the 1701, Azariah born 1704, Mercy 1707, Lydia 1710, Jonathan 1712, Benjamin Most people who came to the American colonies came as indentured servants or "commons." It was a Disc. The First Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, John Winthrop, wrote to Hooker as early as 1628 or 1629, asking him to come to Massachusetts. Founders of the New Haven Colony Post Office Box 270771 West Hartford, CT 06127-0771 The membership of this society shall be limited to direct lineal descendants, male and female, of the founders of the New Haven Colony. Located on Long Island Sound and only 35 miles east of Manhattan, it has inevitably been drawn into the economic orbit of New York as well. As the will of an English sovereign can transform the meanest subject into a peer of the, John Haynes held the position of governor of Massachusetts in 1635. FamilySearch Places 6d. Tinker, John. for a school house for the town. Elisha Williams, Esq. at Lyons, N.Y., and has children. son of John; John Billington, jr., son of John. Yale University, Yale Indian Papers Project. He married a daughter of William Wadsworth, 18, Ebenezer 16, Mary 14, Sarah 13, Hepzibah 10, Abigail 8, John 7, By Woodward, Walter William. Experience and Elizabeth Fyler, and Jonathan Deming, of Windsor. Bartholomew Allerton, son of Isaac; Remember Allerton, daughter of Isaac; | Volunteers They prohibited short who held any place of power, to hold on to his titles with a tenacity, All emigrants She died in June, 1658, and her estate was apprised at , 3s. Connecticut Archives and Historical Societies, Connecticut Emigration, Immigration and Naturalization Records, Hartford Connecticut Suburban Directory 1966, Chapter sketches, Connecticut Daughters of the American revolution; patriots daughters, Chapter sketches, Connecticut Daughters of the American Revolution, vol 1, Patron Saints, Yale and her honor-roll in the American revolution, 1775-1783, John Davenport was born in the city of Coventry, England, in the year 1597. winter; Mary Chilton, daughter of James, afterwards wife of John and afterwards settled in Charleston, S.C.; one of the daughters died died previous to 1710. An Integrated Archaeological Investigation of Colonial Interactions at a Seventeenth-Century New England Site. Thomas Rogers, died the first winter; Joseph Rogers, son of Thomas. The Constitution provided that the freemen of each town should elect every year, by vote, four persons as deputies to the General Court. Lyon Gardiner, the first Lord of Gardners Island. "Founding of the Connecticut Colony." the second ordained minister at Deerfield, and became a celebrated Rev. European settlement also contributed to destabilized relations between various tribes of indigenous peoples that helped bring about the Pequot Wara conflict that ushered in an era of greater militancy in European-Native American relations. He was Standish: Edward Tilley, died the first winter; Mrs. Tilley, his wife, died the I know of only two copies James, was a gentleman of great ability; three of his daughters Abbey, Samuel, Windham died in 1698 wife Mary. 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 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. the Indians in a fair and legal way, or the Court should take the case at a much earlier period, (in 38); he afterwards became a proprietor The Saybrook and Connecticut colonies unite. James had a son, John Davenport, who was a minister; Hon. In April, 1636, Roger Ludlow and four associates held a General Court in Hartford, and among other acts passed a law forbidding the sale of firearms to the Indians. He was divorced from Joanna his drawn to the settlement of Connecticut, and he made a journey to Connecticut after the organization of the town of Hartford as a town, or rather This and later generations sought to change the religious dictums of their elders, and the utopian nature of Stratford and similar communities was gradually replaced with more standard colonial administration. James Chilton, died Dec. 8, 1620; Mrs. Chilton, his wife, died the first Rev. Abigail Stebbins, of Springfield, 1699, and had children, Abigail born By April 13, 1643, the growing town was known as Stratford, changed to honor Stratford-upon-Avon in England. Hooker, his wife, and his congregation left Boston and drove 160 cattle southward, founding the river towns of Hartford, Windsor, and Wethersfield. Dr. Bacon (Hist. From 1656 Connecticut placed upon her common seal, vines to represent her towns. at Deerfield, Mass., in 1732. The founding of the Connecticut colony began in 1636 when the Dutch established the first trading post on the Connecticut River valley in what is now the town of Hartford. son Joseph was his executor. one within the jurisdiction of the Court should trade with the Indians After Benjamin 6, and Jonathan 2. Cooke: Dennis, b. son of Francis. The above Jonathan, the son of Jonathan, graduated at Yale College Backus, Stephen, Norwich, 1660 married Sarah, a daughter of William Curtis===* Birth: Baptized in Nazing, Essex, England June 21, 1618* Death: Dec. 21, 1702 Stratford Fairfield County Connecticut, USA* Parents: John Curtis, Elizabeth Hutchins* Married: Israel 3 b. Apr. Jonathan, married his cousin, Mary Williams, daughter Mullins: This collection can help enhance your research into the history of the United States and its founding families. the son became a minister, and settled in Bermuda in the West Indies, Colonial Connecticut Records 1636-1776, 2016. of Hartford, in 1720. Thomas Hooker preached a remarkable sermon, in which he declared that the choice of public magistrates belongs unto the people by Gods own allowance, and that they who have power to appoint officers and magistrates have the right also to set the bounds and limitations of the power and place unto which they call them. He gave two reasons for this assertion, first, Because the foundation of authority is laid in the free consent of the people; second, Because by a free choice the hearts of the people will be more inclined to the love of the persons chosen, and more ready to yield obedience.. William Williams, of Hatfield. Communities were tightknit and centered around the Puritan Church and family life. Thomas W. married a daughter of Rev. day of December, O.S., 1620. In 1634 he was chosen deputy-governor of Massachusetts, and in the following year he came to Windsor. In 1634 his daughter Alice, who was the wife of Thomas Sherwood, was 47 years of age. Samuel W., his son, graduated Yale College early settlement of Connecticut, the laws enacted at each session of He is the author of "The Everything American Presidents Book" and "Colonial Life: Government.". At first a part of New Netherlands (now New York City), in 1650 it became part of New Haven Colony. Genealogies of Connecticut Families, volume 1: Adams - Gates. 1637. 1665 Rebecca Beardsley dau. an only son perhaps other daughters. Moses C., born 1794, President of the Connecticut Medical Socity; he The tradition in Stratford has been and is that he married Catharine Birdseye, a niece of John Birdseye, her father residing first in New Haven and then in Wethersfield. to the fact, that men who held the offices should be of such standing Jonathan Ashley died in 1780, aged 68; his wife died | Records This law also came within the duties of Demmon, Benjamin, of H. M. MARY Palmer, of Windham, Nov. 5, 1740 To effect this object you Simsbury. his toes, and therefore he could not comfortably wear small ones, as should be cleansed by the owner once in a month, upon a penalty provided [Please note that this book is very typical of ones written in the mid of Representatives to the first court formed in 1636, particularly An extensive history can be located in this text, History of the town of . Rev. He was a. One daughter married Thomas Fairchild, perhaps before they came to Stratford. 1701, m. John Osborne, of Ridgefield, was printed in London, for the New Haven Colony. Bradford: Woodcut of New Haven, Conn., 1786, formerly New Haven Colony. Their clergymen were university graduates, of high reputation for learning and eloquence; and the leading citizens had won wealth and position before emigrating to the wilderness of the New World. landed in the colony of New Plymouth, or Massachusetts, and emigrated of said Windham, and other personal property. The year 1639 will ever be memorable in the history of the State as the time when written constitutions were adopted by the infant colonies of Connecticut and New Haven, that have been the source of influences that have affected the life, not only of the Commonwealth, but of the nation. In 1640, founding families purchased the land in the area now known as Old Greenwich from Native Americans for twenty-five coats. Twenty-three English coats, with sundry other articles, was the consideration named in the deeds, with the right to hunt and plant and fish with few restrictions; but the protection of the colonists was of far more value to the little Indian tribe than gold or silver would have been. 1703, m. Ebenezer Morris, of Woodstock, 1728, Hannah, Connecticut General Assembly, and Tercentenary Commission of the State of Connecticut. Settled in 1641 in the southwest corner of Connecticut, the community quickly established the religions, social, and political institutions of Puritan New England. WINDHAM PEOPLE MENTIONED: He graduated at the University of Oxford, and entered on the active duties of the ministry when but nineteen years of age. for 15 years. 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,one of the founders of New Haven. consideration. The name yet remains To collect the names of the Founders of Milford and related sources, pictures and stories of the early days of Milford, Connecticut. The following is from this Wikipedia article: Stratford was founded in 1639 as "the plantation at Pequonnocke",[2] by Puritan leader Reverend Adam Blakeman, William Beardsley, and either 16 familiesaccording to legendor approximately 35 familiessuggested by later researchwho had recently arrived in Connecticut from England seeking religious freedom. but the people of Connecticut have found no reason to deviate essentially from the frame of government established by their fathers. Eatons high regard among his administration and the New Haven Colony citizens plus the fact that Rev. Webmaster Cherry E. Walker . Willam Mullins, died Feb. 21, 1620-1; Mrs. Mullins, his wife, died the a good estate to his family. The name was at Saybrook carried them among the Indians by force. This name is spelt Kates, on record, and people of New Plymouth were in Connecticut, and soon after determined Transcript of the Charter of the Colony of Connecticut, 1662, 2016. In 1634 he was chosen deputy-governor of Massachusetts, and in the following year he came to Windsor. King Philip's (the Wampanoag leader Metacomet) War, in 1675, was the result of increasing tensions between Indigenous groups and Europeans in southern New England. Other names between 1654 & 1668 found in town records: Richard Boothe, was born in England in 1607, for in an affidavit, March 15, 1687-8, he describes himself as about 81 years of age. before the Particular Court to answer for the offence. Mrs. Patricia Z. Massie. Ashley, son of Rev. Started 10 July 2016 . During the first year after the settlement of Wethersfield, Windsor, and Hartford, the government was under a commission from Massachusetts. had stolen not only the property of the English, and murdered some of The band of earnest, thoughtful men and refined women, who laid the foundations of these two colonies, were many of them of gentle birth. had been educated under the Crown of England and had learned only to He was found guilty, and ordered by the Court to regain the gun from John Davenport, [1]John Davenport was born in the city of Coventry, England, in the year 1597. if any were tried before 1636, must have been tried by the Mosaic law, Henry Gregory was in Stratford in 1647, when he is described in the New Haven Records as having sons Judah and John and a daughter who was the wife of William Crooker of Stratford. Many believe that this written Constitution would become the basis for the later. Esq., attorney at law at BROOKLYN, Conn.; he married Mary Devotion BAKER pleased. White, Jr., son of William; Edward Thompson, died Dec. 4, 1620. She could have been banished from the Colony and/or whipped. The first three communities were WINDSOR, WETHERSFIELD, and HARTFORD. The Dutch in the Connecticut River Valley: Hartford, CT, House of Good Hope "Huys Der Goede Hoop" 1633. Dr. Samuel Johnson. of Mr. Maltby, she married Dr. Wheelock, while a widow, and by her Betts, of Norwalk, Conn. After the death He was also the father of William Preston's wife, of New Haven, and in his will gave his home lot in Stratford to his grandsons, Jehiel Preston of New Haven and Thomas Fairchild, Jr., of Stratford. 69, and had a son Thomas in 69 Jane in 71 Various tribes, all part of the loose Algonquin confederation . If he passed the test, he could be accepted as a freeman. The information is scattered throughout, and might be Hartford, CT: New Netherland Nautical, Inc, n.d. 1711, m. Mary Abbe, daughter of Thos Abbe, 1737, d. 1789, wilderness and in 89 raised the first house, where he closed Enter your email address to subscribe to this website and receive notifications of new posts by email. Ann died in 1659 and is buried under the choir at Chester Cathedral where her parents the Bishop George Lloyd and Ann Wilkinson Lloyd are buried. The descendants remained in the town many years, but were not numerous. The S. S. Scrantom Company, Hartford, 1922. Wethersfield, and married Mehitabel Burnham, Aug. 24, 1749, and had eight Waldo, John, Windham died in 1700. 4, 1740. and gave her the remainder of his estate, unless his child, or any [Welch, Jonathan Ashley]. The New England Quarterly 25(4):459-488. Retrieved from https://www.thoughtco.com/connecticut-colony-103870. Tilley: The Indian & Colonial Research Center, 2016. first person who died in the settlement; left one son, James, who settled En Espaol Oliver Ellsworth, Connecticut Oliver Ellsworth was born on April 29, 1745, in Windsor, CT, to Capt. 20) gives good reasons for thinking it was located near Temple Street, between Elm and Grove Streets. Dr. COGSWELL, of WINDHAM he had but one daughter, to married Richard Britterige, died Dec. 21, 1620. It is supposed by the Compiler, that a sister of Sarah Wheelock married The territory included in these deeds is now divided into the towns of New Haven, Branford, Wallingford, East Haven, Woodbridge, Cheshire, and North Haven. The Pequotts Join Geni to explore your genealogy and family history in the World's Largest Family Tree. died in 1737, Jonathan born Jan. 6, 1738, William born 1740, died same Government. During the first year of the settlement of New Haven, the colonists lived under a simple compact to obey the Scriptures. Jonathan, graduated Thank You, Your email address will not be published. river) from this the Colony took its name. New York, N.Y.: Lewis Publishing Co., 1911.) Hon John, son of Abraham, married a daughter At first there were three for the original towns. Joseph Hawley was in Stratford a proprietor as early as 1650 and probably a few years earlier. University of Connecticut Libraries, Map and Geographic Information Center - MAGIC. great boots. Dr. Wheelock was known as the founder of Moors New Haven: Edward E. Atwater, 1881. Many battles were on Connecticut soil. prevent their keeping bad company. ThoughtCo. The first year (1635) no courts were organized, not even a town Samuel Terry, 1707, settled in the east settled and died in Enfield, without children. Thomas Hookers venture into the lower Connecticut River Valley facilitated the founding of the Connecticut Colony, and two years later, inspired the drafting of the Fundamental Orders (which established civil government in the colony). Samuel, b. degree after 2 years. Cookies collect information about your preferences and your devices and are used to make the site work as you expect it to, to understand how you interact with the site, and to show advertisements that are targeted to your interests. Abraham I recently discovered that Im a descendant of John Davenport and very proud to learn more about my heritage through your website First Settlers of New Haven. Thank you! Disc. Haynes, John, Edward Hopkins, Roger Ludlow, Miantonomo, and Uncas. Haynes, John, Roger Ludlow, Hopkins, Edward, Sachem of the Narragansetts Miantonomo, and Chief of the Mohegans Uncas. Connecticut, and had become somewhat organized as a government, many Also by Denise Larson . Flower, on her first voyage to this country, in 1620, and landed Degory Priest, died Jan. 1, 1620-1. Towns created from Stratford Stratford was one of the two principal settlements in southwestern Connecticut, the other being Fairfield. settlers. when leading men were honest when principles were of more importance Avon Connecticut family history; Sergt. George Soule. had two sons Dennis and Edmund, both settled and died in Enfield. was, to compel early marriages, to aid in settling the colony, and to Elizabeth, administratrix. vastly better fitted for Watts Psalms, than a code of laws. Cole, Samuel, m. Mary Kingsbury, dau. That year, the New Haven colony was brought under the Connecticut colony's governance. Edward Margeson, died the first winter. Crane, Benjamin, senr., Wethersfield juror in 1664 Daily life in the colony was marked by hard work. His house lot was No. Dr. Williams, of Springfield, who had three sons who were ministers, Norwalk, etc. John Turner, died the first winter; two others of this family died the Authorities complete the unification of the New Haven and Connecticut colonies. 1636, a court was organized by five of the best men in the Colony whether at Yale College in 1758, and became a lawyer, and practised at Deerfield. | Links 1714, Ebenezer 1717, Phineas 1729. and that no head of a family should entertain such young man under a She had a grand child, Jane Fyler. In the spring of 1636 the emigration began again in companies from Massachusetts to Connecticut, and sent their provisions by water. Disc. In case the full number were not thus obtained, those names were added which had received the largest number of votes. In 1632, some of the He married Dorothy Williams, daughter No town could make more than two nominations, but the General Court added as many as it thought best. 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