Adriaen Block explored land around the Connecticut river in 1614
The first Native American inhabitants of Connecticut were members of Algonkian tribes. Adriaen Block, a Dutch explorer, was the first European in that area. The first European settlement was a British colony.
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The first European to explore Connecticut was Dutch trader Adriaen Block, who explored from New Amsterdam (New York) up the Hudson River and also up the Connecticut River. The first European settlement in Connecticut was a trading post built by Block just to the north of where modern-day Hartford is located.Block Island (in the Long Island Sound) and Adriaen's Landing (a riverfront development area in Hartford) are named for him.
The First Settlers Were The French And European
They wanted to settle into the colony connecticut because they wanted a new life and practice religion.
Thomas Hooker
John Batman is regarded as the founder of Melbourne, and therefore the first European to settle there.
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I think that the Puritans were the first to settle in Massachusetts
The Vikings where the firts to settle in Canada
The first Native American inhabitants of Connecticut were members of Algonkian tribes. Adriaen Block, a Dutch explorer, was the first European in that area. The first European settlement was a British colony.
France
Connecticut was one of the original 13 colonies. So (besides Native Americans) we were the first to settle here.
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The Viking adventurers.
The first European to discover the area now called Connecticut was Dutch trader Adriaen Block, who explored from New Amsterdam (New York) up the Connecticut River. He founded the first European settlement in Connecticut, a trading post just north of where modern-day Hartford is located.Thomas Hooker did not discover Connecticut, but he was the first European to establish a permanent settlement there, founding the town of Hartford in 1636.