New Haven Colony

noun

, American History.

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

Example Sentences

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

Though many aspects of the criminal justice system in New Haven Colony differed from the courtrooms of Superior Court today, the cases in Blue’s book share the same sensationalism as some of the cases over which Blue has presided New Haven.

From Washington Times

“We have to pinch ourselves that this really happened and that it happened here in New Haven,” veteran Superior Court Judge Jon C. Blue said about the little-known case, which he chronicles in his first published book, “The Case of the Piglet’s Paternity: Trials from the New Haven Colony, 1639-1663.”

From Washington Times

The first settlers came from the New Haven Colony in 1640; but the Dutch, on account of the exploration of Long Island Sound by Adrian Blok in 1614, laid claim to Greenwich, and as New Haven did nothing to assist the settlers, they consented to union with New Netherland in 1642.

From Project Gutenberg

By a treaty of 1650, which fixed the boundary between New Netherland and the New Haven Colony, the Dutch relinquished their claim to Greenwich, but the inhabitants of the town refused to submit to the New Haven Colony until October 1656.

From Project Gutenberg