Connecticut's original pre-Columbian inhabitants included the western.
Niantic, Nipmuc, and wappinger Indians. The Connecticut River gave the.
area its name, a Mohican word meaning "the long river".
European settlement began in 1633 when Dutch fur merchants from.
hew Netherlands placed a trading post at modern Hartford. English Puritans.
founded towns at Windsor and wethersfeild in of that year. In 1637, rev.
Thomas Hooker brought his Puritan congregation form Cambridge,.
Massachusetts, to settle at Hartford, which the Dutch had abandoned. .
Therefore founding the colony of Connecticut.
Tensions with the Pequot escalated following the death of nine.
English mariners in 1634. these tensions resulted in Massachusetts sending a.
punitive expedition to punish that tribe in August 1636 two Indian villages.
were burned. Connecticut militia joined with the Piquot's Indian enemies in.
a war that killed probably 40% of the 2,000 Pequot in 1637, compared to.
only 50 out of the 800 militia.
Hartford, Windsor, and wethersfeild agreed on January 24, 1639, to.
govern themselves by the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut. This frame of.
government established a legislature and court system . By 1662 fifteen other.
towns founded in the Connecticut valley had adopted the Fundamental.
Orders, which were never confirmed by a royal charter. Congregationalism.
receive legal protection as the colony's established church. meanwhile.
Connecticut organized itself to the colony of New Haven in 1643. .
After the Stuart dynasty resumed the English throne in 1660, Charles II.
gave Connecticut the right of self-government by a charter dated May 3.
1662. the charter also gave the new government jurisdiction over New.
Haven's towns. Which were then done away with. Connecticut briefly lost.
its rights to self-government when it was placed under the authority of the.
autocratic domain of New England in 1687, but it resumed its charter.
privileges in 1689.
Although the colonies established before the 1700s were formed by people who emigrated from countries of strict Christianity, many colonies developed their own religious beliefs. By the year 1700, there was a scale of religious freedom ranging from high tolerance to low tolerance. Groups of strict,...
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