Connecticut begun.%--In the same year that Roger Williams began his settlement at Providence, several hundred people from the towns near Boston went off and settled in the Connecticut valley.

For a long time past there had been growing up in Massachusetts a strong feeling that the law that none but church members should vote or hold office was oppressive.

This feeling became so strong that in 1635 some hardy pioneers from Dorchester pushed through the wilderness and settled at Windsor.

A party from Watertown went further and settled Wethersfield.
These were small movements.

But in 1636 the Newtown congregation, led by its pastor, Thomas Hooker, walked to the Connecticut valley and founded Hartford.