A group of individuals led by Thomas Hooker left the Massachusetts Bay Colony due to dissatisfaction with harsh rules and settled in the Connecticut River Valley. In 1639, three settlements joined to form a unified government creating a document called the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, the first written constitution in America. King Charles II officially united Connecticut as a single colony in 1662.
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The NWMP didn't settle - they were a police force in the north west of Canada. They were sent out west to protect settlers and First Nations.and poo
Mostly from England they really could have came from anywhere
Well for one, they were going to the new world to escape the Roman Catholic Church and make their own church.
The first American settlers arrived in San Juan in 1859.
John Batman is regarded as the founder of Melbourne, and therefore the first European to settle there.