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Thomas Hooker

Thomas Hooker
Thomas Hooker, an English clergyman who fled to Holland in 1630 to escape punishment for his Puritan sermons, emigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1633. In 1636 Hooker led a migration from New Towne (now Cambridge), Massachusetts, to Hartford, Connecticut, and became the leader of the settlement.
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American Literature: Prose; Hooker, Thomas; Connecticut
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