Connecticut Colony

Connecticut Colony
1636–1776
Map of the Connecticut, New Haven, and Saybrook colonies
Status	Colony of England (1636–1707) Colony of Great Britain (1707–1776)
Capital	Hartford (1636–1776) New Haven (joint capital with Hartford, 1701–76)
Common languages	English, Mohegan-Pequot, and Quiripi
Religion	Congregationalism (official)[1]
Government	Self-governing colony
Governor
• 1639-1640	John Haynes (first)
• 1769-1776	Jonathan Trumbull (last)
Legislature	General Court
History
• Established	March 3, 1636
• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut adopted	January 14, 1639
• Royal Charter granted	October 9, 1662
• Part of the Dominion of New England	1686-89
• Independence	July 4, 1776 1776
Currency	Connecticut pound
Preceded by Succeeded by Saybrook Colony New Haven Colony Connecticut
Today part of	United States  ∟ Connecticut

The Connecticut Colony, originally known as the Connecticut River Colony, was an English colony in New England which later became the state of Connecticut. It was organized on March 3, 1636, as a settlement for a Puritan congregation of settlers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony led by Thomas Hooker. The English would secure their control of the region in the Pequot War. Over the course of the colony's history it would absorb the neighboring New Haven and Saybrook colonies. The colony was part of the briefly-lived Dominion of New England. The colony's founding document, the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut has been called the first written constitution of a democratic government, earning Connecticut the nickname "The Constitution State."^[2]