Puritans – Freeport History Timeline ../../../index.html A research project focused on the combination of different open source technologies as a way to preserve and present historical data Thu, 21 Jan 2021 01:16:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.8 Puritan Theophilus Eaton founds the New Haven Colony ../../../puritan-theophilus-eaton-founds-the-new-haven-colony/ ../../../puritan-theophilus-eaton-founds-the-new-haven-colony/#respond Sun, 16 Mar 2014 20:54:14 +0000 http://freeporthistory.com/?p=2864 c Summer 1637

– Home to the Quinnipiac

– Presently New Haven, Connecticut 

– A handful of settlers stay over the winter while others go back to Massachusetts Bay Colony and return with 500 the following spring

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Haven_Colony

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Haven

]]> ../../../puritan-theophilus-eaton-founds-the-new-haven-colony/feed/ 0 500 Puritan settlers arrive at the New Haven Colony ../../../500-puritan-settlers-arrive-at-the-new-haven-colony/ ../../../500-puritan-settlers-arrive-at-the-new-haven-colony/#respond Sun, 16 Mar 2014 23:18:42 +0000 http://freeporthistory.com/?p=2868 – Theophilus Eaton and Reverend John Davenport’s company includes settlers from Hertfordshire, England and their Reverend Peter Prudden

– A self-governing commonwealth, founded by Puritans, New Haven is an independent colony not supported by a Royal charter or legal title from England

]]> ../../../500-puritan-settlers-arrive-at-the-new-haven-colony/feed/ 0 Puritans settle Southold, Long Island ../../../puritans-settle-southold-long-island/ ../../../puritans-settle-southold-long-island/#respond Sun, 09 Feb 2014 21:49:52 +0000 http://freeporthistory.com/?p=2292 English families originating from the New Haven Colony in Connecticut under the leadership of Reverend John Youngs with Peter Hallock

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southold,_New_York

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Youngs

https://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/history-and-heritage/digital-exhibitions/a-tour-of-new-netherland/long-island/eastern-long-island/

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]]> ../../../29-puritan-families-leave-wethersfield-to-settle-stamford/feed/ 0 John Carman and Robert Fordham negotiate sale for 64,000 acres of land on Long Island, to become Hempstead ../../../john-carman-and-robert-fordham-purchase-20000-acreas-of-land-on-long-island-to-become-hempstead-from-the-native-americans-of-masapeaque-mericock-and-rockaway/ ../../../john-carman-and-robert-fordham-purchase-20000-acreas-of-land-on-long-island-to-become-hempstead-from-the-native-americans-of-masapeaque-mericock-and-rockaway/#respond Tue, 24 Jul 2012 21:45:19 +0000 http://freeporthistory.com/?p=496
1943 depiction commemorating Hempstead’s 300th anniversary

– With tribal representation of the Reuckowacky (Rekowake), the Merockes (Mericock), Matinecock (Matinecock), and Massapequas (Marsapeague)

– Presently Hempstead and North Hempstead

1644
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Documents Relative to the History of the Early Colonial Settlements Principally on Long Island
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– The English colonists swear an oath of allegiance to the Dutch Republic, and are contractually bound to increase their number to 100 families by 1649

– They are permitted to have their own church and minister, law enforcement, and court

https://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/history-and-heritage/digital-exhibitions/a-tour-of-new-netherland/long-island/heemstede/

]]> ../../../john-carman-files-patent-for-hempstead-purchase-with-new-amsterdam/feed/ 0 John Carman crosses the Long Island Sound with the first thirty-plus families from Stamford to settle Hempstead ../../../john-carman-crosses-the-long-island-sound-with-the-first-thirty-plus-families-from-stamford-connecticut-to-settle-hempstead/ ../../../john-carman-crosses-the-long-island-sound-with-the-first-thirty-plus-families-from-stamford-connecticut-to-settle-hempstead/#respond Tue, 24 Jul 2012 21:47:24 +0000 http://freeporthistory.com/?p=499 c Spring 1644

(conflict: 17 families by certain accounts)

– the first English settlement in what is presently Nassau County

– prominent families Denton, Raynor, Pettit, Wood, Smith, Thompson and Hicks are included

– Stamford, Connecticut 

– Hempstead, North Hempstead

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