Statistics for occurrence #1 of “the Revs. Thomas Hooker” in entry hartford of Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History:
...dge, Mass., reached the vicinity of the present city in 1635, and in the following year a considerable number of members of the church at Cambridge (then Newtown) settled here under the leadership of the Revs. Thomas Hooker and Samuel Stone.
The new settlement was first named Newtown, which was changed to its present name in honor of Stone's birthplace in England in 1637.
On Jan. 14, 1639, at a gathering of the peop...
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