Founding of the Connecticut Colony
When was the colony of Connecticut founded? The Connecticut Colony was founded in 1636 by Thomas Hooker and other colonists, at Hartford.
The Naming of the Connecticut Colony
Word taken from a Native Indian phrase meaning “river whose water is driven by tides or winds.”
Information and Facts with the Connecticut Colony Fact File
The first settlement by Europeans in Connecticut was made on the site of the present Hartford in 1633, by a party of Dutch from New Netherlands. In the same year a trading post was established on the Connecticut river, near Windsor, by members of the Plymouth Colony, and John Oldham (1600-1636) of Massachusetts explored the valley and his reports led to the founding of the colony by Thomas Hooker in 1636.