Thomas Holcombe - Constitution of the Connecticut Colony - 1639

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See Thomas Holcombe (1609-1657). In 2023, the text below was moved here from his profile.

Constitution of the Connecticut Colony - 1639 (?)

"He was a Representative from Windsor and Hartford in the Convention that framed the now famous Constitution of the Connecticut Colony."^[1]

Robert Charles Anderson does not include a reference to Thomas Holcombe being a representative to the 1639 convention that wrote the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut. This might be because there does not seem to be any documentation of the proceeding or a list of the participants.

"Although Windsor was located in Connecticut, it and the other new settlements on the river were under the political and legal jurisdiction of the Massachusetts Bay Colony... On January 14, 1639, a general meeting was held at Hartford; at which time, a separate constitution was written and adopted, the first constitution in America." (Note: it seems that Saybrook, at the mouth of the river, was not under the jurisdiction of the Massachusetts Bay Colony).

The full text of the document can be found at: The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, Wikipedia, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.