Saybrook Colony
The Saybrook Colony was in the latter part of the year in 1635 at the mouth of the Connecticut River , in the area which today Old Saybrook , Connecticut forms and its surroundings, was founded. John Winthrop, Jr. , son of the governor of Massachusetts , was the governor-designate of the group that got the land by deed of deed from the 2nd Earl of Warwick . Winthrop was assisted by Col. George Fenwick and Captain Lion Gardiner. Since the leaders of the group planning to colonize the colony were supporters of Oliver Cromwell , they stayed in England during the Civil War . At the same time, the colony was struggling for survival until 1644, so Fenwick agreed to merge the colony with the more dynamic Colony of Connecticut a few miles up the river.
literature
- Harry M. Ward: The United Colonies of New England, 1643-1690 . Vantage Press, New York 1961.
- Charles McLean Andrews: The Colonial Period of American History (= Tercentenary Commission Publication . Vol. XXXII). Vol. II: The Beginnings of Connecticut 1632-1662. Yale University Press, New Haven 1934.