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page 1People from colonial Connecticut

Jonathan Edwards
Christian preacher, philosopher, and theologian (1703-1758)

John Trumbull
American artist (1756–1843)
Abraham Baldwin
United States politician (1754-1807)
John Fitch
American inventor, clockmaker, entrepreneur and engineer (1743–1798)
David Bushnell
American inventor (1740–1824)
William Samuel Johnson
British-American politician (1727-1819)
Israel Putnam
American Revolutionary War general (1718–1790)
Lyman Beecher
American Presbyterian minister and American Temperance Society co-founder (1775–1863)
Theodore Sedgwick
American politician (1746–1813)
Stephen R. Bradley
American politician (1754-1830)
William Hull
American soldier and politician (1753-1825)
David Brainerd
Missionary in colonial North America
Jonathan Trumbull Jr.
second Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Paymaster, comptroller (1740-1809)
John Ledyard
American explorer and adventurer (1751-1789)
Elijah Paine
United States federal judge (1757-1842)
Samuel Johnson
President of Columbia University (1696-1772)
Nathaniel Chipman
United States federal judge (1752-1843)
Mary Katharine Goddard
American printer and publisher
Jonathan Carver
American explorer (1710-1780)

Nathan Smith
American politician (1770–1835)
Hannah Ocuish
12-year-old Native American sentenced to death and executed in Connecticut in 1786
Elijah Boardman
American politician (1760-1823)

Jeremiah Mason
American politician (1768–1848)
Paul Brigham
American politician
David Wooster
General of the Continental Army
Asher Robbins
American politician (1757-1845)

Ezra Stiles
American theologian, clergyman, Yale President 1727-1795
Jedidiah Morse
American geographer and clergyman (1761-1826)
Aaron Burr Sr.
Father of Aaron Burr and President of the College of New Jersey (1716-1757)
Matthew Lyon
American politician (1749-1822)
Martin Chittenden
American politician (1763-1840)
John Butler
Loyalist who led an irregular militia unit known as Butler's Rangers on the northern frontier in the American Revolutionary War
Daniel Rose
American politician (1772-1833)
Seth Warner
Continental Army officer (1743-1784)
Moses Austin
American businessman (1761-1821)
Eleazar Wheelock
President of Dartmouth College
Jonathan Edwards
American academic
Sassacus
Sassacus is also a genus of jumping spiders.
Samuel Seabury
2nd Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church; 1st Bishop of Connecticut & of Rhode Island
Solomon Spalding
American clergyman and writer
Elisha Perkins
American physician
Samuel Hopkins
American theologian
Manasseh Cutler
American clergyman, politician, botanist and collector (1742-1823)
Winthrop Chandler
American painter (1747-1790)
Asher Benjamin
American architect
Isaac Backus
American theologian, preacher, missionary, writer, and biblical scholar (1724-1806)
Thomas Knowlton
American patriot (1740-1776)
Ezekiel Gilbert
American politician (1756-1841)
Daniel Buck
American politician (1753-1816)
Benjamin Wright
American civil engineer
David Humphreys
American Revolutionary War soldier and politician (1752-1818)
Asahel Nettleton
American theologian (1783-1844)
John Thompson
politician in New York, United States (1749-1823)

James Morris III
American writer
John Treadwell
American politician (1745-1823)
Abraham Pierson
Co-founder of Yale University