Did connecticut become a royal colony?
Nope. See last paragraph. The Connecticut region was inhabited by the Mohegan tribe prior to European colonization. The first European explorer in Connecticut was the Dutch explorer Adriaen Block. After he explored this region in 1614, Dutch fur traders sailed up the Connecticut River (then known by the Dutch as Versche Rivier – ” Fresh River”) and built a fort at Dutch Point near present-day Hartford, which they called “House of Hope” (Dutch: Huis van Hoop). John Winthrop, then of Massachusetts, received permission to create a new colony at Old Saybrook at the mouth of the Connecticut River in 1635. This was the first of three distinct colonies that later would be combined to make up Connecticut. Saybrook Colony was a direct challenge to Dutch claims. The colony was not more than a small outpost and never matured. In 1644, the Saybrook Colony merged itself into the Connecticut Colony. The first English settlers came in 1633 and settled at Windsor and then Wethersfield in 1634. However
