#149 The End of New Haven Colony
The History of the Americans
Jack Henneman
4.9 • 632 Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
This is the story of the New Haven Colony from 1643 until is absorption by Connecticut in 1664. We look at the colony’s economic, military, and geopolitical successes and disasters, and the famous story of the “Ghost Ship,” perhaps the most widely witnessed supernatural event in early English North America. Finally, confronted with the restoration of the Stuarts in England, the Puritan colonies of New England, the greatest supporters of Oliver Cromwell and the Commonwealth, struggle to establish their legitimacy under the monarchy. Connecticut Colony secures a charter from Charles II, and through a series of power plays absorbs New Haven Colony and puts an end to its theocratic government of the Elect.
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Selected references for this episode
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Edward Elias Atwater, History of the Colony of New Haven Until its Absorption Into Connecticut
First Anglo-Dutch War (Wikipedia)
The United Colonies of New England I: The New England Confederation Begins (1643-1652) (Apple podcasts link)
The United Colonies of New England II: Confederation or Absorption (1644-1690) (Apple podcasts link)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the History of the Americans podcast episode 149. |
| 0:11.7 | I'm your host, Jack Heneman, and I'm recording this episode on April 22nd, 2024, in Austin, Texas. |
| 0:20.6 | We are telling the history of the lands now encompassed by the United |
| 0:23.9 | States from the beginning without intentional presentism. I'm going to be in downtown Houston for the |
| 0:32.2 | afternoon and evening of Friday, May 17th, and would be delighted to meet up with listeners, whether or not longstanding |
| 0:39.8 | and attentive while my wife hangs out with fellow head shrinkers. |
| 0:45.0 | My thought is to get together roughly four in the afternoon, maybe to seven, someplace that |
| 0:49.7 | serves good beer, central Houston. |
| 0:52.4 | If you think you would show up, send me a note at the History of the Americans at gmail.com |
| 0:58.0 | through the contact page for the website or by direct message on Twitter. |
| 1:04.1 | And if we get some reasonable critical mass, my over under is probably four or five, |
| 1:08.9 | we'll find a place and set it up. |
| 1:11.5 | The other bit of news is that I'm making a chronological timeline of essentially all the dates |
| 1:17.7 | that I mentioned in the podcast, with links back to the relevant episodes. |
| 1:22.7 | It's a work in progress, now roughly through the Coronado and Soto Entratas in the 1540s. |
| 1:30.0 | And you can find it by clicking on the timeline link at the top of the home page of the website, |
| 1:36.0 | The History of theAmericans.com. Check it out. And admire my webbuilding skills. Did it myself. |
| 1:46.6 | In the last episode, we looked at the founding of New Haven Colony and its spin-off colonies, |
| 1:53.2 | which took us to the early 1640s. It would behoove you to listen to that episode before |
| 1:59.1 | this one, but if you simply must jump in here, |
| 2:03.2 | these were the main point. |
| 2:05.8 | One, Deophilus Eaton and John Davenport, chums going back to their school days, desire to |
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