New Haven Colony

noun

, American History.

1. 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.

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The New Haven colony was poor, unprotected, and divided against itself.

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The towns, left loose and at large, joined Connecticut voluntarily and separately, and the New Haven colony ceased to exist.

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Other towns were settled, and in 1639 the group took the name of the New Haven colony.

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The original design of the founders of the New Haven Colony was to establish a college.

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