| Year |
Europe |
Massachusetts |
Connecticut |
| 1620 |
|
Separatist pilgrims arrive on the Mayflower and establish Plymouth
Colony |
|
| 1630 |
Puritan clergyman, Rev. Thomas Hooker,
lecturer to the Church of St. Mary, Chelmsford, Essex, flees England for
Holland |
Massachusetts Bay Colony settled by a group of about 1000
Anglican Puritans under the leadership of John Winthrop, later Governor
of Colony; some settle at New Towne, across the Charles River from Boston
(later,
ca. 1648 in Connecticut, Thomas Lyon married a granddaughter of Gov. Winthrop) |
|
| 1632 |
|
First Church of Christ (Centre Congregational) was
organized in New Towne; called themselves "Hooker's Company" in expectation
of the arrival of Thomas Hooker |
|
| 1633 |
Puritan clergyman, John Davenport, Vicar of St. Stephens,
London, flees England to found English Church in Amsterdam |
Rev. Thomas Hooker arrives in Massachusetts
and assumes leadership of the church in New Towne |
the Dutch establish a fort at the upper navigable limit
of the Connecticut River, in/near what would later become Hartford |
| 1633-35 |
|
|
disgruntled Puritans from the Massachusetts Bay Colony commence settlement
of the Connecticut River Valley |
| 1635 |
|
|
60 settlers came from New Towne, MA, established
a town that would later become Hartford |
| 1635-38 |
|
|
disgruntled Puritans from the Massachusetts Bay Colony commence settlement
on southwestern coastal strip, including what later became New Haven |
| 1636 |
|
Harvard College established at New Towne |
under the leadership of Thomas Hooker and Samuel
Stone, most of the congregation of the First Church of Christ of New
Towne, MA, moved to the settlement that would, in 1637, be named Hartford,
for the birthplace of Samuel Stone (Hertford, England) |
| 1637 |
|
disgruntled Puritans, John Davenport and Thophilus
Eaton, leave Amsterdam and arrive in Boston |
|
| 1638 |
|
New Towne is renamed Cambridge |
New Haven is founded (originally as Quinnipiac) by
Puritans led by John Davenport and Theophilus Eaton; renamed
possibly for Newhaven, Sussex, England, though I suspect the name was intended
literally, as in "a new haven," because neither Davenport nor Eaton was
from Sussex |
| 1639 |
|
|
Guilford is founded (originally as Menunketuck); renamed presumably
for Guildford, Surrey, England |
| 1639 |
|
|
Milford is founded on land purchased from the Paugusset
Indians; presumably named for Milford, Surrey, England
(Henry Lyon is granted three acres) |
| 1640 |
|
first book published in North America: the Bay Psalm Book |
|
| 1643 |
|
|
New Haven Colony formed by joining of New Haven, Milford, Guilford,
and other communities |
| 1644 |
|
|
Branford is founded, its name a corruption of Brentford, Middlesex
[now Greater London], England |
| |
|
second edition of the Bay Psalm Book
(Richard Lyon assists editor, Henry Dunster, Pres. of
Harvard) |
|
| 1649 |
Charles I is beheaded outside Whitehall Palace, London |
|
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