False. Roger Williams founded the colony of Rhode Island, not Connecticut. Connecticut was founded by Thomas Hooker and a group of Puritans in 1636. Williams established Rhode Island as a refuge for those seeking religious freedom.
Rhode Island
Rodger Williams was the founder of colonial Rhode Island. Source:My Social Studies Teacher gave us notes about this.
Rodger Williams left Massachusetts and founded a New Colony that eventually would become Rhode Island. The Colony was originally called the Colony of Providence Plantation.
Massachusetts
The Colony of Connecticut was originally founded as River Colony by Thomas Hooker and John Haynes in 1636.
Anne Hutchinson, and Rodger Williams
John Winthrop was the person that founded the Connecticut Colony in the New World. John Winthrop was the son of the man who founded Massachusetts Bay Colony.
The Connecticut colony was founded because Thomas Hooker didnt agree with the rules of Massachusetts so he founded a new colony.
The Conneticut Colony was founded c. 1635 but officially 1636.
He was forced out
by people working
Thomas Hooker