What is Connecticut Colony?
{{Infobox former country |conventional_long_name = Colony of Connecticut |common_name = Connecticut |status = Colony |empire = United Kingdom |government_type = Constitutional monarchy |event_start = |date_start = 3 March |year_start = 1636 |event_end = [[United States Declaration of Independence|Independence]] |year_end = 1776 |date_end = |p1 = Saybrook Colony |p2 = New Haven Colony |s1 = Connecticut |flag_s1 = Flag of Connecticut.svg |image_flag = |image_coat = |image_map = Ctcolony.png |image_map_caption = A map of the Connecticut, New Haven, and Saybrook colonies. |capital = Before 1701: [[Hartford, Connecticut|Hartford]], 1701-1776: Joint Capitals: Hartford (May Legislative session) and [[New Haven]] (October Legislative session) |common_languages = English |currency = Pound sterling |representative1 = |year_representative1 = |representative2 = |year_representative2 = |title_representative = |deputy1 = |year_deputy1 = |deputy2 = |year_deputy2 = |title_deputy = |legislature = Fundamental Orders of Connecticut }} The '''Connecticut Colony''' was an [[England|English]] [[colony]] in [[British America]]. The Connecticut Colony or '''Colony of Connecticut''', was formed in what would become the [[US state]] of [[Connecticut]]. It was first called the River Colony and was organized on March 3, 1636. It was a place for [[Puritan]] [[noblemen]]. The English took control of the colony from the [[Dutch Empire|Dutch]] by the late 1630s. The colony became a [[war zone]] between the English and [[American Indian]]s, known as the [[Pequot War]]. This war helped established the self-[[government]] in the [[New World]]. There were two other English colonies in