Here are the 163 men and women listed in the Book of Distribution of Land as being those who settled in Hartford, Connecticut

Hartford, Connecticut

Hartford is the capital of the U.S. state of Connecticut. The seat of Hartford County until Connecticut disbanded county government in 1960, it is the second most populous city on New England's largest river, the Connecticut River. As of the 2010 Census, Hartford's population was 124,775, making...

 before February 1640. Their names are on a monument in Hartford's Ancient Burying Ground

First Church of Christ and the Ancient Burying Ground

First Church of Christ and the Ancient Burying Ground is a historic church and cemetery at 60 Gold Street in Hartford, Connecticut...

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There are later settlers who lived in Hartford in the 17th century, but are not considered Founders of Hartford.

Adams, Jeremy

Allyn, Matthew

Andrews, Francis

Arnold, John

Bacon, Andrew

Barnard, John

Barnes, Thomas

Bartlett, Robert

Baysey, John

Beals, Thomas

Bearding, Nathaniel

Betts, Mary

Bidwell, John

Billing, Richard

Birchard, Thomas

Blachford, Peter

Blatchley, Thomas

Bliss, Thomas, Sr

Bliss, Thomas, Jr

Blumfield, William

Bridgeman, James

Bronson, John

Bull, Thomas

Thomas Bull (Hartford)

Thomas Bull , also known as Captain Thomas Bull, was an early settler in the Connecticut Colony who is counted as one of the founders of Hartford, Connecticut....

Bunce, Thomas

Burr, Benjamin

Butler, Richard

Butler, William

Chaplin, Clement

Chester, Mrs Dorothy

Church, Richard

Clarke, John

Cole, James

Cornwell, William

Crow, John

Cullick, John

Davis, Philip

Davy, Fulke

Day, Robert

Desborough, Nicholas

Easton, Joseph

Edwards, William

Elmer, Edward

Ely, Nathaniel

Ensign, James

Field, Zachary

Fisher, Thomas

Friend, John

Gardner, Samuel

Garrett, Daniel

Jennings, John

Gibbons, William

Goodman, Richard

Goodwin, Ozias

Goodwin, William

Grant, Seth

Graves, George

Greene, Bartholomew

Greenhill, Samuel

Gridley, Thomas

Hale, Samuel

Hale, Thomas

Hall, John

Hart, Stephen

Hayden, William

Haynes, John

Higginson, Rev John

Hills, William

Holloway, John

Holton, William

Hooker, Reverend Thomas

Thomas Hooker

Thomas Hooker was a prominent Puritan colonial leader, who founded the Colony of Connecticut after dissenting with Puritan leaders in Massachusetts...

 

Hopkins, Edward

Hopkins, John

Hosmer, Thomas

Hubbard, George

Hungerford, Thomas

Hyde, William

Ince, Jonathan

Judd, Thomas

Keeler, Ralph

Kellogg, Nathaniel

Kelsey, William

Lay, Edward

Lewis, William, Sr

Lord, Richard

Lord, Thomas

Lord, Thomas, Jr

Lyman, Richard

Marsh, John

Marvin, Matthew

Marvin, Reinold

Maynard, John

Moody, John

Morris, John

Munn, Benjamin

Munson, Thomas

Mygatt, Joseph

Olcott, Thomas

Olmstead, John

Pantry, William

Parker, William

William Parker (early settler)

William Parker was an early Puritan settler in the Connecticut Colony and one of the founders of Hartford. He arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the summer of 1635 after sailing from London on May 21, 1635 aboard the ship Mathew. He settled in Newtowne, the community that is now Cambridge,...

 

Peck, Paul

Phillips, William

Pierce, John

Porter, Thomas

Post, Stephen

Pratt, John

Pratt, William

Purchase, John

Richards, Nathaniel

Richards, Thomas

Risley, Richard

Richard Risley

Richard Risley was an early Puritan settler in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and one of the founders of Hartford, Connecticut. Risley sailed from England on July 15, 1633, in the ship Griffen with Thomas Hooker, William Stone, John Cotton, and John Haynes...

 

Roote, Thomas

Rusco, William

Sable, John

Scott, Thomas

Selden, Thomas

Seymour, Richard

Skinner, John 

Smith, Giles

Spencer, Thomas

Spencer, William

Stanley, John

Stanley, Thomas

Stanley, Timothy

Stanton, Thomas

Thomas Stanton

Thomas Stanton was a trader and an accomplished Indian interpreter and negotiator in the colony of Connecticut. One of the original settlers of Hartford, he was also one of four founders of Stonington, Connecticut, along with William Chesebrough, Thomas Miner, and Walter Palmer.He first appears...

 

Stebbins, Edward

Steele, George

Steele, John

Stone, Rev Samuel

Talcott, John

Upson, Thomas

Wade, Robert

Wadsworth, William

William Wadsworth (patriarch)

William Wadsworth was an early pioneer of New England, a founder of Hartford, Connecticut and the patriarch of numerous and prominent Wadsworth descendants of North America, including the poet Ezra Pound.-Origins:William’s exact origins have challenged descendants and researchers over the centuries...

 

Wakley, Henry

Wakeman, Samuel

Ward, Nathaniel

Warner, Andrew

Warner, John

Watts, Richard

Webb, Richard

Webster, John

Welles, Thomas

Thomas Welles

Thomas Welles is the only man in Connecticut's history to hold all four top offices: governor, deputy governor, treasurer, and secretary. In 1639, he was elected as the first treasurer of the Colony of Connecticut, and from 1640–1649 served as the colony's secretary...

 

Westley, William

Westwood, William

White, John

Whitehead, Samuel

Whiting, William

Wilcox, John

Wolterton, Gregory

Woodford, Thomas

Wyllys, George

George Wyllys

George Wyllys or Wyllis served for a year as one of the early governors of the Connecticut Colony.Born at the manor of Fenny Compton in Warwickshire, England, to Richard and Hester Willis, part of an old, wealthy family. His first cousins Thomas and Richard, were baronets of Fen Ditton,...

Proof of descendancy from any of these people permits admission in the Society of the Descendants of Hartford, Connecticut, which was started in 1931.

 


Source: www.foundersofhartford.org

External links

• Society of the Descendants of the Founders of Hartford