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New Haven Colony

American  

noun

American History.
  1. a settlement founded in 1638 by John Davenport and Theophilus Eaton at Quinnipiac (now New Haven, Conn.).


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On Feb. 14, 1642, a planter of New Haven Colony named John Wakeman informed the magistrates that a sow he had recently purchased had given birth to a “prodigious monster.”

From Slate • Sep. 17, 2015

In 1643 the four towns joined in a sort of union and took the name New Haven Colony.

From A Brief History of the United States by McMaster, John Bach

But the New Haven Colony was unlike Connecticut in one important respect.

From Once Upon a Time in Connecticut by Newton, Caroline Clifford

The New Haven Colony Historical Society has for its officers Simeon E. Baldwin president, ex-Governor English vice president, Thomas R. Trowbridge, Jr., secretary, Robert Peck treasurer, and a board of twenty-five directors.

From The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1886 Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 3, March, 1886 by Various

A much better book, being the best special history of the New Haven Colony.

From The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut by Greene, Maria Louise

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