Early Connecticut Timeline

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Early Connecticut Timeline

All information on this page is from the town/colony pages on Wikipedia, except as noted below. Population estimates only include European settlers. Town locations are shown on the map to the right.

"The title by which the people of Connecticut held the country was founded on the old patent granted by Robert, Earl of Warwick, in 1631, to Lord Say and Seal, Lord Brooke, Sir Richard Saltonstall, and others associated under the name of the Plymouth Company. In 1630 the Plymouth Council made a grant of Connecticut to the Earl of Warwick, their president. This was confirmed by King Charles in 1631, and on the 19th of March, in the same year, the Earl conveyed his title to the Plymouth Company, as before stated. (Dwight)

A charter was granted by Charles II to Connecticut in 1662. Previous to this time the two colonies of Connecticut and New Haven had continued separate, but under this charter they were united and the charter was accepted April 20, 1665" (Gannett)

• 1614 Adriaen Block explores the "Fresh River" (contrasted with the Hudson River which is salty), now known as the Connecticut River (Indian name Quonehtacut). (Carpenter)
• 1633 Windsor. William Holmes, of the Plymouth Colony, establishes a trading post where the Farmington River meets the Connecticut River. It is arguably the first English settlement in Connecticut and ultimately becomes the town of Windsor.
• 1634 Wethersfield (Just south of Hartford) Founded in 1634 by a Puritan settlement party of "10 Men" including John Oldham, Robert Seeley, Thomas Topping and Nathaniel Foote, Wethersfield is arguably the oldest town in Connecticut
• 1635 Saybrook Colony, established in late 1635 at the mouth of the Connecticut River in present-day Old Saybrook by John Winthrop
• 1636 Windsor: Rev. John Warham and half the church of Dorchester, Massachusetts removed to Windsor. (Pope)
• 1636 Hartford (Just south of Windsor, on the Connecticut River) Thomas Hooker and a group of 100 settlers from Massachusetts founded Hartford.
• 1636 The Colony of Connecticut is formed when the towns of Hartford, Windsor, and Wethersfield join together.
• 1637 New Haven [Quinnepiac] (Just west of Branford, not settled) 1637-1638 Established by John Davenport, Theophilus Eaton, and a group of fellow Puritans. For a list of settlers see Dana Page 45. - 1664 joined Connecticut Colony
• 1639 Fairfield (East of Norwalk, next to Westport, not settled)
  • "In 1639 Roger Ludlow and his associates started a plantation at Unqua, thus founding the colonial town of Fairfield" (Jennings: Page 6)
  • It was given the name Fairfield in 1645. The First Congregational Church in Fairfield was organized in 1650. (Bailey)
  • The town of Fairfield originally included the present towns of Easton, Redding, Weston, and Westport. Unfortunately, some of its early records were destroyed in 1779, during a raid by the British during the Revolutionary War. (Rockwell)
• 1639 Guilford settled (Just east of Branford, not settled) First settled by Europeans in 1639. (Elliott) Also see: Col. Mass. Hist. Soc.
• 1639 Milford (Just southwest of New Haven, on the coast. Just west of the Housatonic River, where it meets Long Island Sound). Milford, Orange and West Haven was purchased on Feb. 1, 1639
• 1639 Plainfield Incorporated
• 1639 Stratford was founded by Puritan leader Rev. Adam Blakeman, William Beardsley. (Early Settlers of Stratford)
• 1639 Windsor, Hartford and Wethersfield agreed to govern themselves according to a written constitution, thus formulating the first constitutional republic in the world, and which later became the basis upon which was constructed the constitution of the United States of America. (Loomis)
• 1640 Stamford settled (Between Greenwich and Norwalk) The deed to Stamford was signed on July 1, 1640 under New Haven jurisdiction. Named April 1642. The First Congregation Church was organized May 1641. (Records Congregational Church)
• 1640 Greenwich (Southern and western most town) purchased and settled on 18 Jul 1640 by Capt. Daniel Patrick, Robert Feaks, Elizabeth Feaks, etc. (Mead)
• 1640 Connecticut population est. 2,000 (Century of Population Growth)
• 1643 New Haven combined with Milford and Guilford and named New Haven Colony. (Wikipedia: New Haven Colony)
• 1644 Saybrook Colony merge into Colony of Connecticut
• 1644 Branford (Just east of New Haven) Settled in 1644
• 1645 Fairfield was given the name Fairfield (although it was settled in 1639)
• 1645 Farmington (Just west of Hartford) Incorporated
• 1646 New London settled (Just west of where the Thames River meets Long Island Sound) John Winthrop, Jr. founded the first English settlement here in 1646.
• 1648 The Bankside Farmers settled in the area south of Fairfield, now called Green's Farm, in Westport. (Jennings: Page 8)
• 1649 Norwalk (Just east of Stamford) settled in 1649, incorporated September 1651
• 1649 Stonington, arrivals in 1649, became part of Connecticut 1662
• 1649 Stratfield parish was formed in 1694 from parts of Stratford and Fairfield and was later incorporated as the town of Bridgeport.
• 1650 Connecticut population est. 6,000 (Century of Population Growth)
• 1651 Norwalk Incorporated
• 1653 Middletown (Just south of Wethersfield) September 11, 1651, the General Court of Connecticut established the town of "Mattabesett". November 1653, renamed Middletown.
• 1658 Stonington Incorporated
• 1659 Norwich (North of New London, on the Thames River) founded as Mohegan in 1659, and changed it's name to Norwich in 1662. (VR Norwich) See Map of Home Lots, 1660.
• 1659 Milford settled
• 1660 Connecticut population est. 8,000 (Century of Population Growth)
• 1662 Charles II conferred a charter upon the Connecticut Colony, granting it all the territory of the New Haven Colony. All but New Haven, Branford, and Milford accepted. (History of Milford)
• 1664 Simsbury (northeast of Hartford), settled about 1664
• 1665, May 11, New Haven Colony joins Connecticut Colony, which included 19 towns. (Dana & Gannett & History of Milford)
• 1665 Lyme (On the eastern bank of the Connecticut River, where it meets Long Island Sound) set off from Saybrook, February 13, 1665.
• 1666 Fairfield County, Hartford County, New Haven County, and New London County were established by an act of the Connecticut General Court in Hartford.
• 1667 Wallingford (Just north of New Haven, not on map) created October 10, 1667. On May 12, 1670 ...about 126 people settled in the Town in temporary housing ...by the year 1675, 40 houses stretched along the street. (Wallingford, Connecticut: Town History)
• 1667 Killingworth named (Between Guilford and Saybrook)
• 1668 Haddam (Just south of Middletown, on the Connecticut River) Incorporated in October 1668 as Hadham
• 1670 Connecticut population est. 10,000 (Century of Population Growth)
• 1670 Simsbury named
• 1670 Wallingford named
• 1674 Woodbury named
• 1675 Derby named
• 1679 Enfield first settled
• 1683 Enfield incorporated as part of Massachusetts
• 1685 Danbury. See Barber about settlement date. See Founders of Danbury for the eight families that made up the original settlement. Named in 1787
• 1686 Waterbury named
• 1687 New Britain area settled, but not named (Wikipedia)
• 1687 Preston named
• 1690 Woodstock incorporated. The first settlement was in April 1686, and it was then known as "New Roxbury" or "Quatosett". (VR of Woodstock)
• 1690 Glastonbury - Taken from Wethersfield
• 1692 Windham Incorporated
• 1699 Colchester named
• 1700 Lebanon Incorporated
• 1702 Mansfield - Taken from Windham
• 1703 Canterbury - Taken from Plainfield
• 1704 Groton - Taken from New London
• 1704 At Stratford, the first Episcopal Church was established in Connecticut, under Rev. Mr. George Muirson, of Rye. (Mead)
• 1705 Groton (Wikipedia)
• 1708 Durham Incorporated (Wikipedia)
• 1708 Newtown Incorporated. (Hawley)
  • The original land purchase from the Indians was in 1705. (Jacobus)
  • See "The Newtown charter", May 13, 1708. (Boyle)
  • Most of the founders were from Stratford. (Sterling)
• 1708 Hebron Incorporated
• 1708 Killingly Incorporated
• 1708 Voluntown named
• 1709 Ridgefield Incorporated (Wikipedia)
• 1710 Ashford - Named Oct 1710
• 1711 Coventry named
• 1711 West Farms, Fairfield was made a distinct Society and Parish, May 1711 (Dempsey)
• 1711 Newtown Incorporated
• 1712 "New Milford Plantation" became a town. On October 17, 1711, twelve families (including a total about 70 people) petitioned the Connecticut General Assembly to create the town, together with the associated privilege of levying a tax to support a minister.(Wikipedia)
• 1713 Pomfret named
• 1715 Tolland named
• 1719 Litchfield Incorporated
• 1719 Stafford settled
• 1720 Bolton Incorporated
• 1720 Willington Incorporated
• 1731 Canaan Parish formed from 23 square miles of Stamford and Norwalk (Louer)
• 1731 "Oblong" - A narrow strip of land transferred from Connecticut to New York in 1731. (Connecticut Ancestry: Vol. 51, Page 44 & Vol. 47, Page 169)
• 1734 East Haddam - Taken from Haddam
• 1734 Union Incorporated
• 1737 Harwinton Incorporated
• 1737 Amity. The Ecclesiastical Society of Amity was formed. (Incorporated 1739. Included Bethan until 1763.) Taken from northwestern part of New Haven and Northeastern part of Milford. (Tracy)
• 1738 New Hartford Incorporated
• 1739 Goshen Incorporated
• 1739 Kent Incorporated
• 1739 Sharon Incorporated
• 1740 New Fairfield (Wikipedia)
• 1740 Cornwall Incorporated
• 1740 Torrington Incorporated
• 1741 Salisbury Incorporated
• 1749 Enfield - Taken from Massachusetts
• 1749 Somers - Taken from Massachusetts
• 1749 Suffield - Taken from Massachusetts (Huxley)
• 1749 Woodstock - Taken from Massachusetts. Originally settled 1686 as New Roxbury. Named changed to Woodstock in 1690. (Wikipedia: Woodstock,_Connecticut)
• 1754 Parish of Newbury incorporated. (Johnson)
• 1754 New Britain Society/Parish named (MacLachlan)
• 1757 Norfield Parish established in the Town of Fairfield. The location of the Norfield Congregational Church, sometimes called the "Weston Church". (Rockwell: Page 94)
• 1758 Norfolk Incorporated
• 1759 The General Assembly established Bethel as a "Distinct Ecclesiastical Society" in Oct 1759. (Jessup 1997)
• 1761 Hartland Incorporated
• 1765 Berlin (Wikipedia)
• 1767 Redding (Wikipedia)
• 1767 Chatham - Taken from Middletown
• 1767 Redding - Taken from Fairfield
• 1768 East Windsor - Taken from Windsor
• 1771 Winchester Incorporated
• 1778 Danbury deeds and vital records burned in the British Raid.
• 1779 Southington - Taken from Farmington
• 1779 Washington - Taken from Woodbury, Litchfield, Kent, and New Milford
• 1780 Cheshire - Taken from Wallingford
• 1780 Watertown - Taken from Waterbury
• 1783 East Hartford - Taken from Hartford
• 1784 Woodbridge. Incorporated as a town Jan 1784. Previously named Amity and renamed "Woodbridge", the name of its first pastor, Benjamin Woodbridge, who died the following year, 4 Dec 1785. (Tracy)
• 1785 Berlin - Taken from Farmington, Wethersfield, and Middletown
• 1785 Bristol - Taken from Farmington
• 1785 East Haven - Taken from New Haven
• 1785 Thompson - Taken from Killingly
• 1786 Bozrah - Taken from Norwich
• 1786 Brooklyn - Taken from Pomfret and Canterbury
• 1786 Ellington - Taken from East Windsor
• 1786 Franklin - Taken from Norwich
• 1786 Granby - Taken from Simsbury
• 1786 Hamden - Taken from New Haven
• 1786 Hampton - Taken from Windham, Pomfret, Brooklyn, Canterbury, and Mansfield
• 1786 Lisbon - Taken from Norwich
• 1786 Montville - Taken from New London
• 1786 North Haven - Taken from New Haven
• 1786 Warren - Taken from Kent
• 1787 Bethlehem Incorporated
• 1787 Southbury - Taken from Woodbury
• 1787 Weston - Taken from Fairfield.
  • The Norfield Parish, in Fairfield, became the Town of Weston. (Rockwell: Page 94)
• 1788 Brookfield, taken from parts Danbury, New Milford, and Newtown. (Johnson)
• 1789 Huntington incorporated - Taken from Stratford. Rev. Jedediah Mills was the first minister. The settlement was begun about 70 previous to its incorporation. (Mead: Page 218)
• 1789 Canaan Incorporated
• 1794 Sterling - Taken from Voluntown
• 1795 Plymouth - Taken from Watertown
• 1796 Roxbury - Taken from Woodbury
• 1796 Wolcott - Taken from Waterbury and Southington
• 1797 Trumbull - Taken from Stratford
• 1798 Oxford - Taken from Derby and Southbury
• 1799 Colebrook Incorporated
• 1801 New Canaan - Taken from Norwalk and Stamford (Louer)
• 1801 Waterford - Taken from New London
• 1802 Sherman - Taken from New Fairfield
• 1802 Wilton - Taken from Norwalk
• 1803 Marlborough - Taken from Colchester, Glastonbury, and Hebron
• 1804 Columbia - Taken from Lebanon
• 1804 North Milford Ecclesiastical Society was formed in October 1804 from portions of Milford and New Haven, and this area was incorporated as the town of Orange in 1822. (Jessup 2007)
• 1806 Burlington - Taken from Bristol
• 1806 Canton - Taken from Simsbury
• 1806 Meriden - Taken from Wallingford
• 1807 Middlebury - Taken from Waterbury, Woodbury, and Southbury
• 1807 North Stonington - Taken from Stonington
• 1808 Vernon - Taken from Bolton
• 1815 Griswold - Taken from Preston
• 1819 Salem - Taken from Colchester, Lyme, and Montville
• 1820 Darien incorporated - Taken from Stamford. (Walton)
• 1821 Bridgeport - Taken from Stratford
• 1822 Chaplin - Taken from Mansfield and Hampton
• 1822 Orange - Taken from Milford and New Haven. The North Milford Ecclesiastical Society was formed in October 1804 from portions of Milford and New Haven, and this area was incorporated as the town of Orange in 1822. (Jessup 2007)
• 1823 Manchester - Taken from East Hartford
• 1823 Monroe - Taken from Huntington
• 1826 Madison - Taken from Guilford
• 1827 Prospect - Taken from Cheshire and Waterbury
• 1830 Avon - Taken from Farmington
• 1831 North Branford - Taken from Branford
• 1832 Bethany - Taken from Woodbridge
• 1832 Chaplin - Taken from Hampton
• 1835 Bloomfield - Taken from Windsor
• 1835 East Lyme - Taken from Lyme and Waterford
• 1835 Westport - Taken from Fairfield, Norwalk and Weston
• 1836 Chester - Taken from Saybrook
• 1836 Ledyard - Taken from Groton
• 1838 Clinton - Taken from Killingworth
• 1840 Westbrook - Taken from Saybrook
• 1841 Portland - Taken from Chatham
• 1843 Rocky Hill - Taken from Wethersfield
• 1844 Naugatuck - Taken from Waterbury, Bethany, and Oxford
• 1845 Easton - Taken from Weston
• 1845 South Windsor - Taken from East Windsor
• 1847 Eastford - Taken from Ashford
• 1848 Andover - Taken from Hebron and Coventry
• 1850 New Britain incorporated (It separated from Farmington, and then Berlin) (MacLachlan)
• 1850 Seymour - Taken from Derby
• 1851 Cromwell - Taken from Middletown
• 1852 Old Saybrook - Taken from Saybrook
• 1854 Essex - Taken from Old Saybrook
• 1854 West Hartford - Taken from Hartford
• 1854 Windsor Locks - Taken from Windsor
• 1855 Bethel - Taken from Danbury (Wikipedia)
• 1855 Old Lyme - Taken from Lyme
• 1855 Putnam - Taken from Thompson, Pomfret, and Killingly
• 1856 Bridgewater - Taken from New Milford
• 1857 Scotland - Taken from Windham
• 1858 North Canaan - Taken from Canaan
• 1858 East Granby - Taken from Granby and Windsor Locks
• 1859 Morris - Taken from Litchfield
• 1861 Sprague - Taken from Lisbon and Franklin
• 1866 Middlefield - Taken from Middletown
• 1869 Plainville - Taken from Farmington
• 1871 Beacon Falls - Taken from Bethany, Oxford, Seymour and Naugatuck
• 1871 Newington - Taken from Wethersfield
• 1875 Thomaston - Taken from Plymouth
• 1889 Ansonia - Taken from Derby
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Governors of Connecticut from The Union in 1665

• John Winthrop from 1665-1675
• William Leet 1675-1683
• Robert Treat 1683-1698
• Fitz John Winthrop 1698-1707
• Gurdon Saltonstall 1707-1724
• Joseph Talcott 1725-1741
• Jonathan Law 1741-1750
• Roger Wolcott 1751-1754
• Thomas Fitch 1754-1766
• William Pitkin 1766-1769
• Jonathan Trumbull 1769-1784, resigned 1783, died 1785 age 75
• Matthew Griswold 1784-1785
• Samuel Huntington 1785-1796
• Oliver Wolcot 1796-1797
• Jonathan Trumbull 1797

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