Main Founder

Main Founder of this Colony

The person that is often considered the founders of the Connecticut Colony is Puritan minister Thomas Hooker. When the colony first started, the governor could not serve consecutive terms. Therefore, for the next twenty years, John Hayes and Edward Hopkins served in that position for the next twenty years. Then, George Wylllys, Thomas Welles, and John Webster also shared the governor position between the 1640’s and 1650’s. However, it all started with Thomas Hooker. Hooker was a great speaker, sometimes known as the father of

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Connecticut, was towering figure in the early development of colonial New England. He was one of the first great Christian preachers of his time. As a child, Hooker was born in either Marefield or Birstall, Leicestershire to then entering Queen’s college-Cambridge-a s a scholarship student. After lecturing at many churches, he then settled in Newtown, Boston and became a pastor at the First Parish Church. However, voting was limited in Boston, so Hooker and Samuel Stone then led a group of 100 people and founded a settlement named Hartford. Three years later after Thomas and the hundred others founded Hartford, Hartford and two other settlements founded the great Connecticut Colony.