Leaders

==The most important leader of the Connecticut colony is Thomas Hooker == ==( July 5, 1586 – July 7, 1647. ) He was born into a Puritan family in Leicestershire County, England and was educated at Cambridge. After educated, he became a talented preacher. He acquired a position in Chelmsford, a town noted for its taverns and boisterous citizens, but Hooker's preaching was credited for bringing order. However, he ran into trouble and was forced to flee to Holland. == ==He, along with his followers, went to Boston in 1632, in the same ship which bore the other noted divine, Joseph Cotton. Cotton became one of Massachusetts' leading clergymen, and Hooker at the adjoining village of Newtown, now Cambridge. Again, he ran into trouble, and in 1636, he and his followers migrated on foot to the Connecticut Valley. Other congregations from Dorchester and Watertown soon followed and found the town. Within a year, eight hundred people had found their way into the valley. In 1638, Hooker aided in the adoption of the first written constitution, the Fundamental Orders. However, the colony had not had a governer until John Haynes, who used to be a governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, was elected in 1639. ==

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