Founder

One hundred settlers, led by the Minister Thomas Hooker, set up a new colony in Connecticut. These new settlers rejected the autocratic rule of the Puritans in Massachusetts.

Reason for begin Founded - Thomas Hooker had come to Massachusetts colony built on puritan principles, because he was not allowed to practice his religion faith in his Native England, but he was disturbed by the lack of democracy he left colony of Connecticut to find better religious

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