Thomas Hooker
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Thomas Hooker was a prominent English colonial leader and Congregational minister, who founded the Connecticut Colony after dissenting with Puritan leaders in Massachusetts. He was known as an outstan
Hooker's Company reach the Connecticut, publishers: Estes & Lauriat, 1879
Cuckoos Farm, Little Baddow, Essex, Hooker's home around 1629
Hooker and Company Journeying through the Wilderness from Plymouth to Hartford, in 1636, Frederic Edwin Church, 1846
Hooker's statue by Frances Laughlin Wadsworth
The Fundamental Orders were adopted by the Connecticut Colony council on January 24 1639. The Fundamental Orders describe the structure and powers of the government set up by the Connecticut River tow
Thomas Hooker
…one of the first settlers and founders of both the city of Hartford and the state of Connecticut. He has been cited by many as the inspiration for the "Fundamental Orders of Connecticut", which some have described as the world's first written democratic constitution establishing a representative government. Thomas Hooker was likely…
King James II, who approved of the Charter of 1662.
John Winthrop, the Connecticut governor who ran for multiple terms.
The Constitution of the United States, often said to have been inspired by the Fundamental Orders