Saybrook Colony

A map of the Connecticut, New Haven, and Saybrook colonies.

Saybrook Colony British colony 1635–1644 → Capital Old Saybrook Language(s) English Government Constitutional monarchy History  - Established 1635  - merged with Connecticut Colony 1644 Currency Pound sterling

The Saybrook Colony was established in late 1635 at the mouth of the Connecticut River in what is today Old Saybrook, Connecticut, and environs. John Winthrop, the Younger, son of the Governor of Massachusetts, was designated Governor by the group that claimed possession of the land via a deed of conveyance from Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick. Winthrop was aided by Colonel George Fenwick and Captain Lion Gardiner. As the principals of the group who had planned to settle the colony were supporters of Oliver Cromwell and remained in England during the English Civil War, the colony struggled and by 1644, Fenwick agreed to merge the colony with the more vibrant Connecticut Colony a few miles up river.

See also

• Lower Connecticut River Valley — Connecticut planning region covering the area

Further reading

• Ward, Harry M. The United Colonies of New England, 1643-90 (Vantage Press, 1961).
• Andrews, Charles McLean. The Colonial Period of American History (Vol. II) - The Beginnings of Connecticut 1632-1662 (Tercentenary Commission Publication Vol. XXXII 1934).

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