New Haven Colony
nounAmerican History.
a settlement founded in 1638 by John Davenport and Theophilus Eaton at Quinnipiac (now New Haven, Conn.).
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The New Haven Colony was founded in 1638 by wealthy church members from abroad.
Comic History of the United States | Bill NyeThe New Haven Colony was poor, unprotected, and divided against itself.
The Fathers of New England | Charles M. AndrewsThe towns, left loose and at large, joined Connecticut voluntarily and separately, and the New Haven Colony ceased to exist.
The Fathers of New England | Charles M. AndrewsOther towns were settled, and in 1639 the group took the name of the New Haven Colony.
The Greater Republic | Charles MorrisThe original design of the founders of the New Haven Colony was to establish a college.
Colleges in America | John Marshall Barker
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