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Thomas Hooker (1586–1647)
Hooker, Thomas. An English nonconformist clergyman; born at Markfield, Leicestershire, in 1586; died at Hartford, CT, July 7, 1647. He came to America in 1633; in 1636 removed from Newtown (Cambridge, MA) to Hartford, and founded that colony, becoming minister of the First Church there. He won eminence as a theological writer and a preacher, and has a permanent historical importance for his instrumentality in drawing up the first written constitution in America—that of the Hartford Colony. His chief work is ‘A Survey of the Summe of Church Discipline,’ in collaboration with John Cotton.