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	Connecticut's Heritage Gateway
		Thomas Hooker, Congregational clergyman and the founder of Connecticut, was graduated in 1608 from Emmanuel College, Cambridge, which had the reputation of being a Puritan college.
		Hooker was rector of St. George's Church, Exeter, Surrey, from 1620 to 1626 and was lecturer at the Church of St. Mary, Chelmsford, Essex, from 1626 to 1629.
		Thomas Hooker was an eminent theologian, scholar, and preacher and is deservedly ranked as one of the founders of Connecticut.
	www.ctheritage.org /encyclopedia/ctto1763/hooker.htm (506 words)

	About Sarah Whitman Hooker
		Hooker, born in West Hartford, February 27, 1747, was the daughter of Deacon John and Abigail Pantry Whitman, and was a descendant of William Pantry, one of the founders of Hartford.
		At the age of 22 she married Thomas Hart Hooker of Farmington, who was fourth in direct line of descent from the Rev. Thomas Hooker, the first settled clergyman in Hartford, and a framer of the Connecticut Constitution, on which the Constitution of the United States was modeled.
		Hooker somewhat less than a year, and when they were removed, as an expression of their appreciation of her kindness they presented her with a ring that is now in the possession of her descendants.
	www.west-hartford.com /Profile/HistoricInfo/SarahWhitmanHooker2.htm (721 words)

	Rev. Thomas Hooker
		The Hooker family seems to have been one of some note, as the parish register and the records of the court of administration speak of the father and brother respectively as "Mr.
		Hooker was first, called to preach at Esher in Surrey, a small place 16 miles, from Westminster Bridge, with, a scanty living of 40 pounds a year.
		Hooker, was carried in a litter because of her infirmity.
	history.rays-place.com /ct/thomas-hooker.htm (2026 words)

	The Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut - 1636 Hartford, Connecticut
		Thomas Hooker was born in July of 1586 in Marfield, Leicestershire, England.
		Thomas Shepard, one of the prosecutors of the case when it came to trial, probably came the closest to summing up the issue when he stated that Mistress Hutchinson "never had any trew Grace in her hart.
		Hooker's reputation remained strong even in England and in the summer of 162 letters arrived at Boston invit-ing Thomas Hooker, John Davenport, and John Cotton to represent New England at the Westminster Assembly of Divines.
	www.colonialwarsct.org /1636.htm (2627 words)

	Thomas Hooker - Britannia Biographies
		Thomas Hooker was born of Puritan parents in the county of Leicestershire in 1586.
		Thomas Hooker, like Cotton, wanted to build a godly community, but he believed all the men should have a voice and a vote.
		Thomas never forgot the true source of his salvation and his success in ministry.
	www.britannia.com /bios/hooker.html (508 words)

	Banner of Truth Trust General Articles
		Hooker's 'storm of soul', says Mather, 'had helped him unto a most experimental acquaintance with the truths of the gospel', and from the first 'he entertained a special inclination to those principles of divinity which concerned the application of redemption'.
		Hooker's appointment in Essex was as lecturer and curate at St Mary's in Chelmsford.
		Hooker's four years in Essex, when he was in his mid-forties, were to have a formative influence in the spiritual history of that county.
	www.banneroftruth.org /pages/articles/article_detail.php?233 (4536 words)

	George Thomas' Report of Missionary Ridge (Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign)
		General Hooker was instructed that in making this demonstration, if he discovered the position and strength of the enemy would justify him in attempting to carry the point of the mountain, to do so.
		Hooker's advance encountered the enemy posted in the pass through Taylor's Ridge, who, after an obstinate resistance of an hour, were driven from the pass with considerable loss in killed, wounded, and prisoners.
		On the 28th, General Hooker was ordered by General Grant to remain at Ringgold until the 30th, and so employ his troops as to cover the movements of General Sherman, who had received orders to march his force to the relief of Burnside by way of Cleveland and Loudon.
	www.swcivilwar.com /ThomasReportMissionaryRidge.html (2682 words)

	Hooker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Evelyn Hooker, Dr. (1907–1996), American psychologist who showed in the 1950s that gay people cannot be distinguished from straight ones by their mental state or capacity
		Hooker (rugby), a position in rugby union or rugby league
		Hooker Glacier, a glacier close to the slopes of Mount Cook in the Southern Alps of New Zealand
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hooker (217 words)

	Hooker, Thomas - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		HOOKER, THOMAS [Hooker, Thomas] 1586-1647, Puritan clergyman in the American colonies, chief founder of Hartford, Conn., b.
		In 1633, Hooker immigrated to Massachusetts, where he was pastor at Newtown (now Cambridge).
		Hooker was one of the drafters of the Fundamental Orders (1639), under which Connecticut was long governed and which represent his political views.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/h/hooker-t1.asp (318 words)

	Biographical Sketch of Thomas Hooker
		Thomas Shepard, one of the prosecutors of the case when it came to trial, probably came the closest to summing up the issue when he stated that Mistress Hutchinson "never had any trew Grace in her hart."9 Hooker was not present for the trial, having returned to Hartford at the end of the three-week inquiry.
		Hooker declined to attend although he apparently tried to have an influence on the assembly by the publication of two books and a catechism in London in 1645.
		Thomas Hooker died a victim of an epidemic sickness on July 7, 1647.
	www.intoutreach.org /biog.html (2008 words)

	Faith & Freedom
		Hooker and Winthrop were good friends, which is why Winthrop was so bitterly disappointed when Hooker petitioned the General Court to allow his congregation to move to Connecticut.
		Thomas Hooker is considered by many to have played the role of John the Baptist for Thomas Jefferson in the sense that he laid the foundation for American republican democracy.
		Hooker was convinced, however, that more sinners would be saved in a forgiving society than under the more regimented Massachusetts Bay, and certainly more than in England under the watchful eye of Archbishop Laud, where outward appearance (rather than genuine conversion) determined whether one was an Anglican in good standing.
	www.leaderu.com /orgs/cdf/ff/chap07.html (3995 words)

	Thomas Hooker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		HOOKER, Thomas, clergyman, born in Mark= field, Leicestershire, England, in 1586; died in Hartford, Connecticut, 7 July, 1647.
		Hooker's influence was very great, and whenever he preached in Boston he attracted large audiences.
		He was identified with all the important political and religious movements of the colony, and was one of the moderators of the first New England synod that was held in Cambridge in the case of Mrs.
	www.famousamericans.net /thomashooker (565 words)

	Lessons from Thomas Hooker about the frailty of humanity and the importance of a worldview
		Historians consider Thomas Hooker to be the Father of the Connecticut Constitution.
		To Hooker, the stability of society was directly dependant on the vitality and leadership of the church.
		Thomas Hooker and later founding fathers understood that because we are blessed with freedom, we must not squander what we have been given.
	www.renewamerica.us /columns/voigt/050905 (1306 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Hooker, Thomas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Thomas Hooker Whatever you're looking for you can get it on eBay.
		Hooker, Thomas HOOKER, THOMAS [Hooker, Thomas] 1586-1647, Puritan clergyman in the American colonies, chief founder of Hartford, Conn., b.
		Educated at Cambridge, he was influenced by Thomas Hooker, became a staunch Puritan, and emigrated from England.
	www.encyclopedia.com /articles/06033.html (655 words)

	Thomas Hooker: Beholding the Majesty of God
		While Hooker studied for his B.A. in 1608, he saw the sparks which formerly 'did fly abroad into all corners of the kingdom' under Perkins' ministry, continue to fly under three preachers, who like Perkins, were all Fellows at Christ's College — Thomas Taylor, Paul Baynes and William Ames.
		Whether Hooker was visiting his home-county of Leicestershire, or preaching in Rogers' pulpit at Dedham — addressing a people rich in spiritual privileges — or evangelizing in Chelmsford, he flattered no one.
		Once on a fast day in Chelmsford, when the judges in their circuit were present in a vast congregation, Hooker alluded plainly in his prayer to the marriage of Charles I to the Catholic Henrietta Maria, beseeching God to lay his Word upon the heart of the King — 'an abomination is committed.
	www.puritansermons.com /banner/murray5.htm (4579 words)

	John Thomas "Thomas" Hooker
		John Thomas Hooker, son of J.B. and Margaret Hooker, was born December 20, 1861, in Sullivan County, near what was known as the North Hooker School.
		John T. Hooker, when a number of their relatives met at their home in the city, bringing with them well filled baskets.
		Hinda Hooker and daughter, Evelyn, of Lineville, Iowa; Mrs.
	www.djhooker.com /19.htm (761 words)

	Thomas Hooker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thomas Hooker (July 5, 1586 – July 7, 1647) was a prominent Puritan religious and colonial leader remembered as one of the founders of the Colony of Connecticut.
		Hooker's Company reach the Connecticut, publishers: Estes and Lauriat, 1879
		Born at Marefield, Leicestershire, England, he fled first to Holland and then to New England in 1633 on the ship Griffin to escape the persecution of Archbishop William Laud for non-conformity.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Hooker (202 words)

	Thomas Hooker
		Thomas Hooker was born into a Puritan family in Leicestershire County, England.
		Hooker eventually ran into trouble with religious authorities over theological matters and was forced to flee to Holland.
		Hooker lost favor in the Bay Colony and relocated to Connecticut in 1636, where he was instrumental in the development of Hartford.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h544.html (276 words)

	Hooker Family Bible
		The handwriting for the birth entries for Henry and Ann Covert, John and Hyram Hooker appear to be the same.
		Thomas Hooker and Mary E. Miller was married on Thursday the 8th of June 1882.
		Alice Ann the daughter of Thomas Hooker & Mary E. was born the 16th of April 1883.
	patriot.net /~cpbarnes/Hooker.htm (561 words)

	THOMAS HOOKER ALES AND LAGERS - HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		HARTFORD, Conn – July 5, 2005 – Thomas Hooker Ales and Lagers, brewed in Hartford and named for the city’s founder, was named among the Top 100 Brewers in the World by worldwide beer enthusiasts.
		Thomas Hooker Ales and Lagers ranked 99th overall among top brewers in the world.
		Hooker was the only Connecticut brewing company in the rankings and joins just five other New England breweries: Smuttynose Brewing Company, Portsmouth, NH (#27); Allagash, Portland, ME (#39); McNeill’s Brewery, Brattleboro, VT (#53); Boston Beer Company (Samuel Adams), Boston, MA (#62); and Magic Hat Brewing Company, South Burlington, VT (#93).
	www.troutbrookbeer.com /whatsnew_ratebeer.html (328 words)

	Life of Mr Thomas Hooker
		Thomas Hooker the renowned pastor of Hartford-Church, and pillar of Connecticut-Colony in New-England, essay'd by Cotton Mather.
		Hooker, but also bound him over in a Bond of Fifty Pound, to appear before the High Commission, which he could not now attend, because of an Ague then upon him.
		Thomas Hooker the renowned pastor of Hartford-Church, and pillar of Connecticut-Colony in New-England / essay'd by Cotton Mather.
	www.jesus.cam.ac.uk /college/history/eliotexhibhooker.html (676 words)

	ThomasShepard.org - The Writings of Thomas Shepard
		He was graduated at Oxford in 1627, ordained in the established church, and in 1630 silenced for non-conformity.
		He was silenced again in 1633, and in October, 1635, sailed for t his country, settled in Boston, and from that time till his death was pastor of the church in Cambridge, succeeding Thomas Hooker.
		His second wife, Joanna, whom he married in 1637, was the daughter of Thomas Hooker.
	www.thomasshepard.org /bio.shtml (396 words)

	Fundamental Orders
		The government, or “combination,” as Hooker called it, confirmed the system that had functioned in the three towns since 1636 and was very like the Massachusetts model.
		The main concern of the Fundamental Orders was the welfare of the community; the individual always had to give way if the needs of the community at large so required.
		Thomas Hooker - Hooker, Thomas, 1586–1647, Puritan clergyman in the American colonies, chief founder of...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/history/A0819884.html (340 words)

	Hartford History: FAQs
		Though this became Hartford, Hooker and his followers were not the first Europeans on the scene.
		From Holland, Hooker and a group of his parishioners made the trying and dangerous voyage across the Atlantic to the Massachusetts Bay Colony, settling in Cambridge, which was then known as Newtown.
		The founders of Hartford, Wethersfield, and Windsor used this sermon and others from Hooker as a basis for their Fundamental Orders, considered by some to be the world's first written constitution.
	www.hartfordhistory.net /faq.html (2224 words)

	Descendants of Thomas HOOKER
		HOOKER was born 1604 in Marfield, Tilton, Leicestershire, England, and died July 07, 1647 in Hartford, CT. He married (1) U
		Children of Thomas HOOKER and Susanna Unknown are:
		Children of Joanna HOOKER and Thomas Shepard are:
	www.rays-place.com /families/hooker-thomas.html (2520 words)

	Thomas Hooker Family Homepage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Thomas Hooker (1586-1647) and Susannah Garbrand (1593-1676) 5.
		Samuel Hooker (1633-1697) and Mary Willetts (1637-1712) 6.
		Nathaniel Hooker (1768-1850) and Abigail Eggleston (____-1826) 10.
	members.aol.com /bigtruffel/r14.html (419 words)

	Thomas Hooker
		He became a fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge and was for three years worked as a Puritan lecturer in Chelmsford.
		Hooker lived in Holland for three years before emigrating to America in 1633.
		Hooker settled in Massachusetts Bay and became a minister in Newtown (Cambridge).
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAhookerT.htm (109 words)

	The Natural Law Tradition in Ethics
		It might be thought that there is nothing that can be done to begin a discussion of natural law theory in ethics other than to stipulate a meaning for ‘natural law theory’ and to proceed from there.
		But there is a better way of proceeding, one that takes as its starting point the central role that the moral theorizing of Thomas Aquinas plays in the natural law tradition.
		Thomas Hobbes, for example, was also a paradigmatic natural law theorist.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/natural-law-ethics (5976 words)

	Thomas Hooker
		Hooker's journey: notes of a naturalist in the Himalayas.(Joseph Dalton Hooker; reprint from Himalayan Journals; Or, Notes of a Naturalist......
		Two Faces of Elizabethan Anglican Theology: Sacraments and Salvation in the Thought of William Perkins and Richard Hooker.
		Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation Between Church and State & Separation of Church and State.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0824121.html (322 words)

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