1. Roger Ludlow was an English lawyer, magistrate, military officer, and colonist.
17 Facts About Roger Ludlow
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Roger Ludlow was active in the founding of the Colony of Connecticut, and helped draft laws for it and the nearby Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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Roger Ludlow was appointed a magistrate administering justice in Dublin, where he is believed to have died.
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Roger Ludlow matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford in 1609 or 1610, and was admitted to the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple in 1612.
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In 1635 Roger Ludlow joined with other Puritans and Congregationalists who were dissatisfied with the rate of Anglican reforms, and sought to establish an ecclesiastical society subject to their own rules and regulations.
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Roger Ludlow was a magistrate in 1637 and 1638, and was then named as the first Deputy Governor of Connecticut.
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Roger Ludlow was chosen as a magistrate in 1640, and every year from that date until he left the colony in 1654, except in 1642 and 1648, when he was again chosen Deputy Governor.
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In 1643 Roger Ludlow was one of the representatives from Connecticut in the negotiations which led to the confederation of the colonies.
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Roger Ludlow then chose to take leave from Hartford and Windsor and obtained a charter from the General Court to begin a settlement at "Pequannocke".
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Roger Ludlow left with a group of like-minded settlers from Windsor, Watertown, and Concord to purchase property along the coast of Long Island Sound west of the New Haven Colony.
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Roger Ludlow settled his family in the new town, but returned to Hartford in the fall of 1639.
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Early in 1640, Roger Ludlow purchased land from the Siwanoy Sachem Mahackemo located still further west in an area that would become Norwalk, Connecticut.
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Roger Ludlow contracted with fourteen men for the original planting of Norwalk.
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Roger Ludlow first sailed to Virginia Colony to visit his brother George who had settled there.
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Roger Ludlow served on the commission from 1654 to 1658.
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Roger Ludlow was appointed to the post of Master in Chancery in Ireland.
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Roger Ludlow was a resident and member of St Michan's Church in Dublin.