Question: why did the connecticut river valley not play an important role like new york’s hudson river valley

title: Hudson Valley
text: In 1598 some Dutch employed by the Greenland Company wintered in the Bay . Eleven years later , the Dutch East India Company financed English navigator Henry Hudson in his attempt to search for the Northwest Passage . During this attempt , Henry Hudson decided to sail his ship up the river that would later be named after him . As he continued up the river , its width expanded , into Haverstraw Bay , leading him to believe he had successfully reached the Northwest Passage . He docked his ship on the western shore of Haverstraw Bay and claimed the territory as the first Dutch settlement in North America . He also proceeded upstream as far as present - day Troy before concluding that no such strait existed there . Dutch