Conneticut

Niantic, Nipmuc, and wappinger Indians. The Connecticut River gave the

area its name, a Mohican word meaning “the long river”.

European settlement began in 1633 when Dutch fur merchants from

hew Netherlands placed a trading post at modern Hartford. English Puritans

founded towns at Windsor and wethersfeild in of that year. In 1637, rev.

Thomas Hooker brought his Puritan congregation form Cambridge,

Massachusetts, to settle at Hartford, which the Dutch had abandoned.

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II Connecticut, Fundamental Connecticut, Tensions Pequot, Connecticut River, Piquot’s Indian, Hartford Windsor, English Puritans, Connecticut Connecticut’s, Thomas Hooker, Hartford Dutch, windsor wethersfeild,