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Connecticut, USA

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Connecticut (Listeni /kəˈnɛtɪkət/) is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, the state of New York to the west, and by the Long Island Sound to the south.



Named for the Connecticut River, the major U.S. river that approximately bisects the state, Connecticut's capital city is Hartford. The Knowledge Corridor surrounding Hartford and Springfield, Massachusetts, the latter of which lies only 5 miles north of the Connecticut state line, constitute New England's second most populous metropolitan region (with approximately 1.8 million residents and 110,000 university students.) Southwestern Connecticut is considered part of the New York metropolitan area; three of Connecticut's eight counties are in the New York City combined statistical area, commonly called the Tri-State area. Connecticut's center of population is in Cheshire, New Haven County.



Connecticut is the 29th most populous state, with 3.5 million residents, and is ranked 48th in size by area, making it the 4th most densely populated state. Called the Constitution State, Nutmeg State, and "The Land of Steady Habits", Connecticut was influential in the development of the federal government of the United States.



Connecticut's first European settlers were Dutch and established a small, short-lived settlement in present-day Hartford at the confluence of the Park and Connecticut rivers, called Huys de Goede Hoop. Initially, half of Connecticut was a part of the Dutch colony, New Netherland, which included much of the land between the Connecticut and Delaware rivers.



The first major settlements were established in the 1630s by the English. Thomas Hooker led a band of followers overland from the Massachusetts Bay Colony and founded what would become the Connecticut Colony; other settlers from Massachusetts founded the Saybrook Colony and the New Haven Colony. Both the Connecticut and New Haven Colonies established documents of Fundamental Orders, considered the first constitutions in North America. In 1662, the three colonies were merged under a royal charter, making Connecticut a crown colony. This colony was one of the Thirteen Colonies that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution.



The Connecticut River, Thames River, and ports along the Long Island Sound have given the state a strong maritime tradition, which continues today. Connecticut's other traditional industry is financial services; for example, insurance companies in Hartford and hedge funds in Fairfield county. As of the 2010 Census, Connecticut features the highest per capita income, Human Development Index (0.962), and median household income in the United States. Although Connecticut is a wealthy state by most measures, the income gap between its urban and suburban areas is striking, with several of Connecticut's cities ranking among the nation's poorest and most dangerous.



History



The name of the state is an Anglicized version of the Algonquian word "quinatucquet", meaning "upon the long river". The Connecticut region was inhabited by the Mohegan tribe prior to European colonization. The first European explorer in Connecticut was the Dutch explorer Adriaen Block. After he explored this region in 1614, Dutch fur traders sailed up the Connecticut River (then known by the Dutch as Versche Rivier—" Fresh River") and built a fort at Dutch Point in what is present-day Hartford, which they called "House of Hope" (Dutch: Huis van Hoop).



John Winthrop, then of Massachusetts, received permission to create a new colony at Old Saybrook at the mouth of the Connecticut River in 1635. This was the first of three distinct colonies that later would be combined to make up Connecticut. Saybrook Colony was a direct challenge to Dutch claims. The colony was not more than a small outpost and never matured. In 1644, the Saybrook Colony merged itself into the Connecticut Colony.



The first English settlers came in 1633 and settled at Windsor, and then at Wethersfield the following year. However, the main body of settlers came in one large group in 1636. The settlers were Puritans from Massachusetts, led by Thomas Hooker. Hooker had been prominent in England and was a professor of theology at Cambridge. He was also an important political writer and made a significant contribution to Constitutional theory. He broke with the political leadership in Massachusetts, and, just as Roger Williams created a new polity in Rhode Island, Hooker and his cohort did the same and established the Connecticut Colony at Hartford in 1636. This was the second of the three colonies.



The third colony was founded in March 1638. New Haven Colony (originally known as the Quinnipiack Colony) was established by John Davenport, Theophilus Eaton, and others at New Haven. The New Haven Colony had its own constitution, "The Fundamental Agreement of the New Haven Colony", which was signed on June 4, 1639.



Because the Dutch were outnumbered by the flood of English settlers from Massachusetts, they left their fort in 1654.



Neither the establishment of the Connecticut Colony or the Quinnipiack Colony was carried out with the sanction of the English Crown, and they were independent political entities. They naturally were presumptively English, but in a legal sense, they were only secessionist outposts of Massachusetts Bay. In 1662, Winthrop took advantage of this void in political affairs and obtained in England the charter by which the colonies of Connecticut and Quinnipiack were united. Although Winthrop's charter favored the Connecticut colony, New Haven remained a seat of government with Hartford until after the American Revolution.



Winthrop was very politically astute and secured the charter from the newly restored Charles II, who granted the most liberal political terms.



Historically important colonial settlements included:



Windsor (1633)



Wethersfield (1634)



Saybrook (1635)



Hartford (1636)



New Haven (1638)



Fairfield (1639)



Guilford (1639)



Milford (1639)



Stratford (1639)



Farmington (1640)



Stamford (1641)



New London (1646)



Its first constitution, the "Fundamental Orders", was adopted on January 14, 1639, while its current constitution, the third for Connecticut, was adopted in 1965. Connecticut is the fifth of the original 13 states. The original constitutions influenced the US Constitution as one of the leading authors was Roger Sherman of New Haven.



The western boundaries of Connecticut have been subject to change over time. According to the Hartford Treaty with the Dutch, signed on September 19, 1650, but never ratified by the British, the western boundary of Connecticut ran north from Greenwich Bay for a distance of 20 miles "provided the said line come not within 10 miles (16 km) 6 km of Hudson River. This agreement was observed by both sides until war erupted between England and The Netherlands in 1652. No other limits were found. Conflict over uncertain colonial limits continued until the Duke of York captured New Netherland in 1664." On the other hand, Connecticut's original Charter in 1662 granted it all the land to the "South Sea", i.e. the Pacific Ocean. Most colonial royal grants were for long east-west strips. Connecticut took its grant seriously, and established a ninth county between the Susquehanna and Delaware Rivers, named Westmoreland County. This resulted in the brief Pennamite Wars with Pennsylvania.



Connecticut's lands also extended across northern Ohio, called the Western Reserve lands. The Western Reserve section was settled largely by people from Connecticut, and they brought Connecticut place names to Ohio. Agreements with Pennsylvania and New York extinguished the land claims by Connecticut within its neighbors, and the Western Reserve lands were relinquished to the federal government, which brought the state to its present boundaries.

Birth

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	Last Name, Given Name(s)	Birth		Person ID	Tree
1	Williams, Chloe	9 Oct 1788	Connecticut, USA	I222898	Geneagraphie
2	Willat, Irvin	18 Nov 1890	Connecticut, USA	I673716	Nederlandse voorouders
3	Wilcox, Orson	1820	Connecticut, USA	I400658	Geneagraphie
4	Wilcox, Lucy E.	1811	Connecticut, USA	I400654	Geneagraphie
5	Wilcox, Laura Sophia	1818	Connecticut, USA	I400657	Geneagraphie
6	Wilcox, Julius E. A.	1813	Connecticut, USA	I400655	Geneagraphie
7	Wilcox, Julia Melissa	1816	Connecticut, USA	I400656	Geneagraphie
8	Wilcox, John E.	1809	Connecticut, USA	I400653	Geneagraphie
9	Wilcox, Delia A.P.	1825	Connecticut, USA	I400659	Geneagraphie
10	Whitney, Martha	19 Oct 1766	Connecticut, USA	I223076	Geneagraphie
11	Whitney, James		Connecticut, USA	I221781	Geneagraphie
12	Whitney, Charlotte	21 May 1784	Connecticut, USA	I221779	Geneagraphie
13	Wells, Anah	23 Aug 1759	Connecticut, USA	I222731	Geneagraphie
14	Weed, Samuel	12 May 1805	Connecticut, USA	I401448	Geneagraphie
15	Weed, Henry Jesse	18 Jan 1807	Connecticut, USA	I401450	Geneagraphie
16	Weatherhead, William Henry	25 Jul 1830	Connecticut, USA	I249762	Geneagraphie
17	Weatherhead, Jennie E.	Abt 1857	Connecticut, USA	I250650	Geneagraphie
18	Truman, Lucy Anne	13 Sep 1804	Connecticut, USA	I111002	Geneagraphie
19	Thorp, Archibald	1775	Connecticut, USA	I52157	Geneagraphie
20	Stanton, John	Abt 1682	Connecticut, USA	I192446	Geneagraphie
21	Stanley, Ruth	1 Jul 1696	Connecticut, USA	I110735	Geneagraphie
22	Stanley, Abigail	24 Feb 1695	Connecticut, USA	I110645	Geneagraphie
23	Sperry, Sara Ann	24 Apr 1790	Connecticut, USA	I253469	Geneagraphie
24	Smith, Mary	Abt 1728	Connecticut, USA	I143306	Geneagraphie
25	Smith, Lura	Abt 1794	Connecticut, USA	I277961	Geneagraphie
26	Skinner, Roger Sherman	1794	Connecticut, USA	I376291	Geneagraphie
27	Sheehan, Arthur	25 Apr 1924	Connecticut, USA	I589736	Nederlandse voorouders
28	Satterlee, Rebecca	1 Mar 1724	Connecticut, USA	I199972	Geneagraphie
29	Rossiter, Susanna	13 Jun 1697	Connecticut, USA	I192688	Geneagraphie
30	Riggs, Miles	20 Dec 1777	Connecticut, USA	I220456	Geneagraphie
31	Resseguie, Susan	18 Apr 1796	Connecticut, USA	I223414	Geneagraphie
32	Reed, Isaac C.	1822	Connecticut, USA	I333058	Geneagraphie
33	Recor, Samuel	1801	Connecticut, USA	I401738	Geneagraphie
34	Recor, John	25 Jul 1791	Connecticut, USA	I401737	Geneagraphie
35	Prichard, Jared	15 May 1760	Connecticut, USA	I111926	Geneagraphie
36	Parke, Robert	Abt 1635	Connecticut, USA	I195798	Geneagraphie
37	Parke, Marthe	Abt 1632	Connecticut, USA	I195770	Geneagraphie
38	Palmer, Rebecca		Connecticut, USA	I193300	Geneagraphie
39	Paine, Lois	10 Jul 1737	Connecticut, USA	I385058	Geneagraphie
40	Olmstead, Hephzibah	1726	Connecticut, USA	I221969	Geneagraphie
41	Morgan, Elizabeth	1737	Connecticut, USA	I311965	Geneagraphie
42	Mitchell, Medad	18 Aug 1751	Connecticut, USA	I311626	Geneagraphie
43	Minor, William	1692	Connecticut, USA	I312125	Geneagraphie
44	Minor, Thomas	1696	Connecticut, USA	I312127	Geneagraphie
45	Minor, Sylvester	1714	Connecticut, USA	I312136	Geneagraphie
46	Minor, Susanna	1707	Connecticut, USA	I312131	Geneagraphie
47	Minor, Sarah	1708	Connecticut, USA	I312132	Geneagraphie
48	Minor, Samuel	1712	Connecticut, USA	I312135	Geneagraphie
49	Minor, Joseph	1711	Connecticut, USA	I312134	Geneagraphie
50	Minor, Elihu	1716	Connecticut, USA	I312137	Geneagraphie

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Christening

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	Last Name, Given Name(s)	Christening		Person ID	Tree
1	Hotchkiss, Sarah	16 May 1675	Connecticut, USA	I204458	Geneagraphie
2	Alexander, Dorothy		Connecticut, USA	I160524	Geneagraphie

Death

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	Last Name, Given Name(s)	Death		Person ID	Tree
1	Wilmot, Sarah	1731	Connecticut, USA	I204529	Geneagraphie
2	Williams, Judith	1692	Connecticut, USA	I187075	Geneagraphie
3	Willett, Mary	16 Oct 1843	Connecticut, USA	I874289	Geneagraphie
4	Wheeler, Maria	Aft 1654	Connecticut, USA	I138419	Geneagraphie
5	Wakeman, Anna	Abt 1699	Connecticut, USA	I131669	Geneagraphie
6	Trumbull, Hester	14 May 1747	Connecticut, USA	I397778	Geneagraphie
7	Staples, Sophia	3 Apr 1818	Connecticut, USA	I376060	Geneagraphie
8	Stanley, Hannah	1 Nov 1703	Connecticut, USA	I102882	Geneagraphie
9	Smith, John	30 Oct 1690	Connecticut, USA	I141257	Geneagraphie
10	Smith, Johanna	1671-1676	Connecticut, USA	I141261	Geneagraphie
11	Smith, Elizabeth	Aft 3 Apr 1741	Connecticut, USA	I219674	Geneagraphie
12	Smith, Elizabeth	6 Oct 1703	Connecticut, USA	I141260	Geneagraphie
13	Smith, Eleazer	1706	Connecticut, USA	I137516	Geneagraphie
14	Smith, Ebenezer		Connecticut, USA	I142448	Geneagraphie
15	Skinner, Ann	18 Jun 1695	Connecticut, USA	I593994	Geneagraphie
16	Sherwood, Thomasin		Connecticut, USA	I123785	Geneagraphie
17	Schermerhorn, Abraham Maus	22 Aug 1855	Connecticut, USA	I286488	Nederlandse voorouders
18	Satterlee, William	Bef 12 Sep 1733	Connecticut, USA	I198796	Geneagraphie
19	Satterlee, Rebecca	29 Mar 1806	Connecticut, USA	I199972	Geneagraphie
20	Russ, Josiah	1745	Connecticut, USA	I166414	Geneagraphie
21	Redgrave, Lynn	02 May 2010	Connecticut, USA	I669041	Nederlandse voorouders
22	Recor, John	11 Mar 1860	Connecticut, USA	I401737	Geneagraphie
23	Pratt, Sarah	8 Dec 1725	Connecticut, USA	I140657	Geneagraphie
24	Powell, Elizabeth	10 Jun 1706	Connecticut, USA	I139765	Geneagraphie
25	Porter, Mary	3 Feb 1789	Connecticut, USA	I397804	Geneagraphie
26	Newman, Paul Leonard	26 Sep 2008	Connecticut, USA	I674635	Nederlandse voorouders
27	Newman, Elizabeth	Aft 1645	Connecticut, USA	I345581	Geneagraphie
28	Moulthrop, Elizabeth		Connecticut, USA	I361303	Geneagraphie
29	Mead, Samuel		Connecticut, USA	I258164	Geneagraphie
30	Mead, Esther		Connecticut, USA	I287972	Geneagraphie
31	Mack, Sibyl	14 Nov 1830	Connecticut, USA	I397807	Geneagraphie
32	Mack, Josiah	16 Jan 1827	Connecticut, USA	I397810	Geneagraphie
33	Mack, Henry	15 Feb 1833	Connecticut, USA	I397811	Geneagraphie
34	Mack, Aaron	28 May 1812	Connecticut, USA	I397812	Geneagraphie
35	Ludlow, Sarah 60 Col.	1665	Connecticut, USA	I428035	Geneagraphie
36	Loomis, Benjamin	1726	Connecticut, USA	I123176	Geneagraphie
37	Lincoln, Lidiah	1734	Connecticut, USA	I874493	Geneagraphie
38	Lay, James (Jeams)	Abt 1683	Connecticut, USA	I172815	Geneagraphie
39	Langdon, Joseph		Connecticut, USA	I217264	Geneagraphie
40	Knowles, Thomas	1648	Connecticut, USA	I345580	Geneagraphie
41	Knowles, Eleazer	31 Jan 1731	Connecticut, USA	I345578	Geneagraphie
42	Keith, Eartha Mae	25 Dec 2008	Connecticut, USA	I685285	Nederlandse voorouders
43	Jordan, Mary	26 Mar 1683	Connecticut, USA	I467831	Geneagraphie
44	Hutchinson, Ezra	21 Sep 1807	Connecticut, USA	I401832	Geneagraphie
45	Hovick, Ellen Evangeline	28 Mar 2010	Connecticut, USA	I671297	Nederlandse voorouders
46	Hills, Joseph	8 Nov 1713	Connecticut, USA	I103013	Geneagraphie
47	Hepburn, Katherine Houghton	29 Jun 2003	Connecticut, USA	I673748	Nederlandse voorouders
48	Graham, Dr. Andrew	15 Jun 1785	Connecticut, USA	I346422	Geneagraphie
49	Goodwin, Elizabeth	1673	Connecticut, USA	I48215	Geneagraphie
50	Gerard, Elizabeth	Aft 1719	Connecticut, USA	I593917	Geneagraphie

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Burial

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	Last Name, Given Name(s)	Burial		Person ID	Tree
1	Wheeler, Maria		Connecticut, USA	I138419	Geneagraphie
2	Tracy, Christopher		Connecticut, USA	I138085	Geneagraphie
3	Tough, Frances		Connecticut, USA	I141287	Geneagraphie
4	Smith, John		Connecticut, USA	I141257	Geneagraphie
5	Smith, Johanna		Connecticut, USA	I141261	Geneagraphie
6	Smith, Ellen		Connecticut, USA	I141258	Geneagraphie
7	Smith, Elizabeth		Connecticut, USA	I141260	Geneagraphie
8	Smith, Eleazer		Connecticut, USA	I137516	Geneagraphie
9	Smith, Ebenezer		Connecticut, USA	I142448	Geneagraphie
10	Smith, Anna		Connecticut, USA	I137510	Geneagraphie
11	Peck, Joseph		Connecticut, USA	I140670	Geneagraphie
12	Mead, Esther		Connecticut, USA	I287972	Geneagraphie
13	Griswold, Hannah	1687	Connecticut, USA	I141195	Geneagraphie
14	Butler, Esther		Connecticut, USA	I123552	Geneagraphie
15	Bunnell, Martha Elizabeth	Abt 6 Sep 1849	Connecticut, USA	I204106	Geneagraphie
16	Baker, Nicholas	Nov 1632	Connecticut, USA	I278266	Geneagraphie
17	Alvord, Saul	Sep 1793	Connecticut, USA	I278024	Geneagraphie

Prominent People

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	Last Name, Given Name(s)	Prominent People		Person ID	Tree
1	Wolcott, Oliver Jr.	1795	Connecticut, USA	I363984	Geneagraphie

Marriage

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	Family	Marriage		Family ID	Tree
1	Winans / Palmer	Abt 1708	Connecticut, USA	F45056	Geneagraphie
2	Williams / Satterlee	14 May 1758	Connecticut, USA	F81966	Geneagraphie
3	Williams / Avery	18 Jan 1804	Connecticut, USA	F81958	Geneagraphie
4	Welles / Deming	1645	Connecticut, USA	F53342	Geneagraphie
5	Washbourne / Stiles	1660	Connecticut, USA	F87829	Geneagraphie
6	Washbourne /	Bef 1629	Connecticut, USA	F87827	Geneagraphie
7	Smith / Loomis	20 Nov 1691	Connecticut, USA	F50271	Geneagraphie
8	Skinner / Deforest	27 Sep 1817	Connecticut, USA	F149470	Geneagraphie
9	Sherman / Morgan	9 Feb 1842	Connecticut, USA	F149416	Geneagraphie
10	Rexford / Cooke	1710	Connecticut, USA	F153195	Geneagraphie
11	Mosher / Alvord		Connecticut, USA	F136646	Geneagraphie
12	Mack / Porter	9 Jul 1789	Connecticut, USA	F158846	Geneagraphie
13	Mack / Porter	12 Oct 1747	Connecticut, USA	F158844	Geneagraphie
14	Loomis / Fitch	6 Jan 1702	Connecticut, USA	F50272	Geneagraphie
15	Knowles / Elizabeth	Between 1726 and 1727	Connecticut, USA	F136692	Geneagraphie
16	Johnson / Hine	19 Feb 1719	Connecticut, USA	F105819	Geneagraphie
17	Hull / Coe	1 Jan 1746	Connecticut, USA	F53383	Geneagraphie
18	Hulet / Lewis	1786-1787	Connecticut, USA	F56285	Geneagraphie
19	Hine / Coe	15 Feb 1776	Connecticut, USA	F105856	Geneagraphie
20	Gunn / Day	17 Nov 1658	Connecticut, USA	F105760	Geneagraphie
21	Gunn / Baldwin	Abt 1636	Connecticut, USA	F105752	Geneagraphie
22	Dickinson / Beardsley	8 Jan 1668	Connecticut, USA	F20189	Geneagraphie
23	Crary / Gallup	31 Dec 1677	Connecticut, USA	F75964	Geneagraphie
24	Colt / Skinner	Abt 1660	Connecticut, USA	F257305	Geneagraphie
25	Chapman / Doane	31 Aug 1794	Connecticut, USA	F53432	Geneagraphie
26	Buell / Gillett	30 Jun 1698	Connecticut, USA	F50319	Geneagraphie
27	Blount / Clark	13 Nov 1729	Connecticut, USA	F257214	Geneagraphie
28	Bailey / Gerard	1687	Connecticut, USA	F257265	Geneagraphie
29	Austin / Lathrop	5 Jun 1783	Connecticut, USA	F158643	Geneagraphie
30	Alsop / Preston		Connecticut, USA	F84579	Geneagraphie
31	Allen / Nancy?	1779	Connecticut, USA	F80342	Geneagraphie