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| b. Connecticut and Rhode Island |
| 1631 |
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| The earl of Warwick, to whom the Council for New England had granted much of the Connecticut River Valley, transferred his rights to William Fiennes, Lord Saye and Sele. | 1 |
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| 1633 |
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| The Dutch, who had explored the coast, erected a fort on the river near the present Hartford. | 2 |
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| 1635 |
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| Rev. John Davenport and Theophilus Eaton founded a theocratic colony at New Haven. | 3 |
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| 1636, June |
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| ROGER WILLIAMS SETTLED AT PROVIDENCE, where he organized a government democratic in character, with separation of church and state. | 4 |
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| 1638 |
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| Anne Hutchinson held weekly prayer meetings in her home, attacked members of the clergy for underestimating the role of faith in salvation, and stressed the importance of direct communication with God. Considerations of gender and theology impelled officials to banish her from the colony. She took refuge on the island of Aquidneck, later called Rhode Island, where she and a small group of associates founded the settlement of Portsmouth. The following year another settlement was made at Newport. | 5 |
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| 1639 |
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| Hartford, Windsor, and Wethersfield drew up Fundamental Orders, which provided that the governor and assistants, with four representatives from each town, should constitute the general court. These three settlements were commonly referred to as Connecticut. | 6 |
| Meanwhile, Roger Williams had arrived at Boston, from England (1631). After spending some time at Salem, he repaired to Plymouth, where he concluded that the land rightfully belonged to the Indians and that the king had no right to grant it. He returned to Salem, where he argued that the Church and the state should be separated. He denied the right of the magistrate to control the churches and objected to enforced oaths, since they obliged wicked men to perform a religious act, thereby destroying the freedom of the soul. In Oct. 1635 he was banished from Salem. | 7 |
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