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Tag: Puritans

6/22/1637 Puritan Theophilus Eaton founds the New Haven Colony

4/24/1638 500 Puritan settlers arrive at the New Haven Colony

10/21/1640 Puritans settle Southold, Long Island

1/1/1641 29 Puritan families leave Wethersfield to settle Stamford

11/13/1643 John Carman and Robert Fordham negotiate sale for 64,000 acres of land on Long Island, to become Hempstead

11/16/1644 Director General William Kieft issues a patent granting John Carman and settlers rights and title for Hempstead

4/1/1644 John Carman crosses the Long Island Sound with the first thirty-plus families from Stamford to settle Hempstead