The Restoration of the Stuart monarchy in the kingdoms of England,Scotland,and Ireland took place in 1660 when King Charles II returned from exile in continental Europe. The preceding period of the Protectorate and the civil wars came to be known as the Interregnum (1649–1660).
Edward Whalley was an English military leader during the English Civil War and was one of the regicides who signed the death warrant of King Charles I of England.
Major-General William Goffe,probably born between 1613 and 1618,died c. 1679/1680,was an English Parliamentarian soldier who served with the New Model Army during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. A religious radical nicknamed “Praying William”by contemporaries,he approved the Execution of Charles I in January 1649,and later escaped prosecution as a regicide by fleeing to New England.
Theophilus Eaton was a wealthy New England Puritan merchant,diplomat and financier,who took part in organizing and financing the Great Puritan Migration to America. He was a founder of Massachusetts Bay Colony,and a founder and eventual governor of New Haven Colony. He also cofounded Boston,Massachusetts,Greenwich,Connecticut and Eaton's Neck in New York.
The New Haven Colony was a small English colony in Connecticut from 1638 to 1664,with outposts in New York,New Jersey,Pennsylvania,and Delaware.
The Connecticut Colony or Colony of Connecticut,originally known as the Connecticut River Colony or simply the River Colony,was an English colony in New England which later became Connecticut. It was organized on March 3,1636 as a settlement for a Puritan congregation,and the English permanently gained control of the region in 1637 after struggles with the Dutch. The colony was later the scene of a bloody war between the colonists and Pequots known as the Pequot War. Connecticut Colony played a significant role in the establishment of self-government in the New World with its refusal to surrender local authority to the Dominion of New England,an event known as the Charter Oak incident which occurred at Jeremy Adams' inn and tavern.
John Endecott,regarded as one of the Fathers of New England,was the longest-serving governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony,which became the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He served a total of 16 years,including most of the last 15 years of his life. When not serving as governor,he was involved in other elected and appointed positions from 1628 to 1665 except for the single year of 1634.
John Dixwell,alias James Davids,was an English lawyer,republican politician and regicide. Born in Warwickshire,during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms he held various administrative positions in Kent on behalf of Parliament,and approved the Execution of Charles I in January 1649. Under the Commonwealth,he served as Governor of Dover Castle,and was a member of the English Council of State.
The Blue Laws of the Colony of Connecticut are an invented set of harsh statutes governing conduct in the Puritan colony,listed in a history of Connecticut that was published in 1781 in London by the Reverend Samuel Peters,an Anglican who had been forced to leave America. Peters' book popularized the term "blue laws",referring to laws restricting activities on Sunday.
John Winthrop the Younger was an early governor of the Connecticut Colony,and he played a large role in the merger of several separate settlements into the unified colony.
Edward Hopkins was an English colonist and politician and 2nd Governor of the Connecticut Colony. Active on both sides of the Atlantic,he was a founder of the New Haven and Connecticut colonies,serving seven one-year terms as Governor of Connecticut. He returned to England in the 1650s,where he was politically active in the administration of Oliver Cromwell as a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty and member of Parliament. He remained in England despite being elected Governor of Connecticut in 1655,and died in London in 1657.
The Angel of Hadley is the central character in a possibly apocryphal tale combining the execution of Charles I in England,King Philip's War and Hadley,Massachusetts. According to the tale Colonel William Goffe,who was wanted for his role in the regicide,was hiding in Hadley when it was attacked by Indians in 1675 or 1676. Goffe,by then an aging figure,is said to have come out of his hiding to lead the local residents in the successful defense of their community against the attack.
John Russell was a Puritan minister in Hadley,Massachusetts,during King Philip's War. As such,he is part of the Angel of Hadley legend.
Thomas Welles is the only person 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 to 1649 served as the colony's secretary. In this capacity,he transcribed the Fundamental Orders into the official colony records on 14 January 1638,OS,. He was the magistrate during the first witch trials,the Hartford or Connecticut Witch Trials.
William Leete was Governor of the Colony of New Haven from 1661 to 1665 and Governor of the Colony of Connecticut from 1676 to 1683.
Danyell "Daniel" Gookin was a Munster colonist,settler of Virginia and Massachusetts,and a writer on the subject of American Indians.
The Restoration of the monarchy began in 1660 when the English,Scottish and Irish monarchies were all restored under Charles II after the republic that followed the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. The term Restoration may apply both to the actual event by which the monarchy was restored,and to the period immediately following the event.
The phrase "Goffe and Whalley" or "Whalley and Goffe" refers to two men who fled in 1660 to Massachusetts Bay Colony and ultimately New Haven after their involvement in the 1649 regicide of King Charles I of England:
Captain Thomas Yale was a British military officer,merchant and magistrate. He was a puritan who emigrated from London to the New England Colonies aboard the Hector in 1637,and cofounded,with his stepfather,Governor Theophilus Eaton,the colony of New Haven. He was also a deputy to the Connecticut General Assembly and fought in King Philip's War.
