they sailed up the river and built a fort near present day Hartford.first English settlers arrived in Connecticut conn vein 1633 under the leadership of Reverend Thomas Hooker. They were Puritans from the Massachusetts Bay Colony Agriculture played a major role in the early growth of is conneticut one of the only thirteen colonies that would form the United States of America. farming was one of the hardest things for crops like wheat because of the poor soil but corn, pumpkins, rye, squash and beans were raised and many more things that they grew.
