The settlement of Plymouth, in 1620, has already been mentioned.

In 1635, Mr.Hooker and Mr.Stone, two ministers, went on foot from Massachusetts to Connecticut, through the pathless woods, taking their whole congregation along with them.

They founded the town of Hartford.

In 1638, Mr.Davenport, a very celebrated minister, went, with other people, and began a plantation at New Haven.

In the same year, some persons who had been persecuted in Massachusetts, went to the Isle of Rhodes, since called Rhode Island, and settled there.