HARTFORD, CONN.
\hˈɑːtfəd], \hˈɑːtfəd], \h_ˈɑː_t_f_ə_d]\
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Was settled in 1635 by emigrants from eastern Massachusetts, under the lead of Thomas Hooker. The Constitution for the colony, the first framed in America, was written here in 1639. It became the capital of the colony. In 1687 Sir E. Andros demanded the charter from the assembly in session in the city, but it was concealed, it is said, in the "Charter Oak." Trinity College was founded in Hartford in 1823.
By John Franklin Jameson
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