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- The father of Connecticut was Thomas Hooker, who had been driven from his native land by the persecuting Laud. He had arrived at Boston, in 1632, in the same ship which bore the other noted divine, Joseph Cotton. Cotton became the Puritan pastor at Boston, and Hooker at the adjoining village of Newtown, now Cambridge.
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13 Colonies: Connecticut Colony Connecticut was originally settled by Dutch fur traders in 1614. They sailed up the Connecticut River and built a fort near present-day Hartford. The first English settlers arrived in Connecticut in 1633 under the leadership of Reverend Thomas Hooker. They were Puritans from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. After their arrival, several colonies were established including the Colony of Connecticut, Old Saybrooke, Windsor, Hartford, and New Haven.
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Connecticut 1 Connecticut and Rhode Island were the only two states that failed to ratify the 18th Amendment, which prohibited the manufacture, sale or transportation of alcohol. 2  The USS Nautilus, the world’s first nuclear submarine, was constructed in Groton, Connecticut, between 1952 and 1954.
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- New England, region, northeastern United States, including the states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. 1  The region was named by Captain John Smith, who explored its shores in 1614 for some London merchants.
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Colony Of Connecticut This, and the adjoining towns, soon after settled, were distinguished by the name of Colony of New Haven. Among the founders of this colony, which was the fourth in New England, was Mr. John Davenport, for some time a distinguished minister in London.
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- Search: for. Charles Goodyear. The American inventor Charles Goodyear was born at New Haven, Connecticut, on the 29th of December 1800, the son of Amasa Goodyear, an inventor (especially of farming implements) and a pioneer in the manufacture of hardware in America.
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- Connecticut (/kəˈnɛtɨkət/ , kə-NET-i-kət) is the southernmost state in the region of the United States known as New England. Connecticut is also often grouped along with New York and New Jersey as the Tri-State area.onnecticut is known as the Constitution State.. While the origin of this title is uncertain, the nickname may either refer to the Fundamental Orders of 1638–39 or possibly the Great Compromise (Connecticut Compromise) of the 1787 Constitutional convention.
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Colony Of Connecticut Colony Of Connecticut. A Brief History. Robert, Earl of Warwick, was the first proprietary of the territory, under a grant in 1630 from the Plymouth Council. It was next held by Lords Say and Seal, and Lord Brooke, and others, to whom the Earl transferred it to 1631.
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- In 1640 Andrew Ward and Robert Coe, representing a group of settlers from Wethersfield, CT purchased a large tract of land on the banks of the Rippowam River from the New Haven colony. Each man in the group was expected to pay thirty-three pounds of produce as soon as possible.
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RocketSwag.com Lyme disease was first identified by a person called Dr. Allen Steere in 1975 in the US. There was a severe outbreak of rheumatoid arthritis in juveniles in a place called Lyme in Connecticut. After that the doctor decided to investigate it further, and he also observed that the onset of the illness was in summer.nly an infected tick can pass on the disease. Lyme disease was first found in Connecticut because of the high population of the deer in the state. The first case of the disease was from a place called Lyme in Connecticut and that is why it was named Lyme disease. More..
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- what$can$weinfer$about$Connecticut?$ A.)There)was)alot)of)goldthere) B.)There)was)alot)of)furry)animals)there) C.)There)were)alot)of)settlers)there) D.)Itwas)extremelycold) $ 3.)$Where$did$the$first$English$settlers$in$ Connecticut$comefrom?$ A.$England$ B.$Massachusetts$ C.)DutchTerritory$ D.)France$ $ 4.)$How$did$theConnecticut$Colony$grow?$
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Brief History of CT exists and is an alternate of . Computed Tomography (CT) imaging is also known as CAT scanning (Computed Axial Tomography). Tomography is from the Greek word tomos meaning slice or section and graphia meaning describing. CT was invented in 1972 by British engineer Godfrey Hounsfield of EMI Laboratories, England and by South Africa-born physicist Allan Cormack of Tufts University, Massachusetts. Hounsfield and Cormack were later awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their contributions to medicine and science.
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The History of Windsor County Vermont Old Families In 1777 General Jonathan Moulton sold this piece of land to Samuel Burnham with barn frame thereon. It was sold again in 1779 to George Freese, trader, Records of Bradbury Richardson, one of the first settlers, show transactions between the two - labors for goods, July 30, 1781. Hollands New Hampshire, printed in London, England March 1, 1784 shows the store as the only building in this part of town.
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- Connecticut’s agricultural roots date back to the crop gardens planted by indigenous peoples who cultivated such staples as the Three Sisters (maize, beans, and Menu Towns
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Colonial America 1600s and 1700s Thomas hooker. was a puritan minister who was not happy with the way that Puritan leaders ran the massachusetts colony. HE led his congregation through the wilderness to connecticut where he founded the town of Hartford, which later became a colony.
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History of the Connecticut Western Reserve The early history of Northeastern Ohio, known as New Connecticut or the Connecticut Western Reserve, is one of the most interesting histories recorded. The general area was explored and perhaps occupied by the French in the 1600 s and early 1700 s.he English entered the area in battle against the French for control of the western lands in the late 1750 s and early 1760 s. England defeated the French at Fort DuQuesne (Pittsburgh), Quebec, and Niagara and thereby established her right over the lands of the Western Reserve.
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The State of Connecticut Connecticut is a small state to be sure but it has been one of the most vigorously independent and productive since Dutch explorer Adriaen Block discovered the Connecticut River in 1614. Geographically, it is the third smallest state, even though its original charter, granted in 1662, extended the land grant west to the Pacific Ocean.
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Vermont In 1777, Vermont declared itself to be an independent republic. At first it was called New Connecticut, but later in the year the present name was selected. Its constitution, adopted July 8, 1777, provided for universal manhood suffrage, earlier than any of the original 13 colonies.
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- The first Europeans we saw landing on Connecticut shores were Dutch traders (http://www.coldspringschool.com/history/early.html) who sailed up the Connecticut River around the year 1614, and landed near Hartford.
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- The University of Connecticut (UConn), is a land grant public research university in Storrs, Connecticut, United States. The University of Connecticut was founded in 1881 and is a Sea Grant university and a member of the Space Grant Consortium. The university serves more than 30,000 students on its six campuses, including more than 8,000 graduate students in multiple programs.
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Who Discovered Nanotubes? slide 1 of 3. Nanotube Research and Discoveries The true identity of the discoverers of carbon nanotubes, or CNT, is a subject of some controversy. For years, scientists assumed that Sumio Iijima had discovered CNTs in 1991. Sumio Iijima, a Japanese physicist, published a paper describing his discovery.
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- The Museum also has the only public planetarium in the state of Vermont. The Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium is northern New England's premiere museum of natural history. The Museum was founded in 1889 by St. Johnsbury industrialist Franklin Fairbanks.
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- After Columbus’s trip to the Caribbean and. the early Spanish settlement in Florida, several explor-. ers came close to Connecticut including Cabot (UK) in 1497, Verrazano (an Italian working for the French) in 1524, and Gomez (Portuguese working for the. French) in 1525.
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Who Discovered Alaska? We may never really tell who really was the very first person who discovered Alaska. We can only credit Vitus Bering to be the first outsider who discovered Alaska since there were already people who lived in the area when he arrived.
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State Police Identify Deceased Man Found In Old Lyme: Update OLD LYME, CT — A 44-year-old New Britain has been identified by state police as the person who was found deceased along the shore in the area of Hatchett's Point in Old Lyme on Monday afternoon. The body of Juan Colon was discovered at about 3 p.m.
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Seal of Connecticut The first seal of Connecticut was brought from England by Colonel George Fenwick in 1639. It was the seal of the Saybrook Colony and was turned over to the Connecticut Colony at about the time that it purchased the land and fort at Saybrook Point from Colonel Fenwick in 1644.