Thomas Hooker - Hartford, CT
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A memorial bronze plaque honoring the founder of the Colony of Connecticut and the City of Hartford, Thomas Hooker, is located on the south side of the west wall of the First Church of Christ in Hartford, CT.
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Location: Connecticut, United States
Date Posted: 04/03/2019
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On the brick wall on the west wall of the First Church of Christ facing the Ancient Burying Ground a bronze plaque is inscribed:
THOMAS HOOKER
1586 - 1647
A LEADER OF THE FOUND-
ERS IN THIS COMMON-
WEALTH. A PREACHER
OF PERSUASIVE POWER
A STATESMAN WHO
BASED ALL CIVIL AU-
THORITY ON THE FREE
CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE.
Tablet is placed near
the site of his burial by
The Connecticut Society
of the Colonial Dames
of America. A.D. 1915
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Thomas Hooker was born on July 5, 1586 in Leicestershire, England. He was persecuted for his theological and social views and immigrated to Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1629.
He was a leader of universal Christian suffrage, a view that was out of favor in Puritan Massachusetts. He and Rev. Samuel Stone led a group of about 100 followers to the Connecticut River Valley and in 1636 founded the present day City of Hartford.
Hooker is considered to be the Father of Connecticut. He inspired the "Fundamental Orders of Connecticut", thought to be the world's first written democratic constitution that established a representative government.