Block, representing the Dutch, sails up the Connecticut River. Plymouth Colony sends William Holmes to found a trading post at Windsor. Massachusetts to found Hartford. School authorized by General Assembly. Anne s War bypasses Connecticut.
Platform permits churches to join regional consociations.
Courant, the oldest American newspaper in continuous existence to the present, launched at Hartford by Thomas Green. Thomas Fitch who refused to reject the Stamp Act defeated by William Pitkin. Deane, Eliphatet Dyer, and Roger Sherman represent Connecticut at First Continental Congress.