<P> Major John Mason was the military leader of the early colony . He was the commander in the Pequot War, a magistrate, and the founder of Windsor, Saybrook, and Norwich . He was also Deputy Governor under Winthrop . Roger Ludlow was an Oxford - educated lawyer and former Deputy Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony . He petitioned the General Court for rights to settle the area, and he led the March Commission in settling disputes over land rights . He is credited as drafting the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1650) in collaboration with Hooker, Winthrop, and others . He was also the first Deputy Governor of Connecticut . </P> <P> William Leete of Guilford served as governor of New Haven Colony before its merger into Connecticut, and he also served as governor of Connecticut following Winthrop's death in 1675 . He is the only man to serve as governor of both New Haven and Connecticut . Robert Treat of Milford served as governor of the colony, both prior to and after its inclusion in the Dominion of New England under Sir Edmund Andros . His father Richard Treat was one of the original patentees of the colony . Roger Wolcott was a weaver, statesman, and politician from Windsor, and he served as governor from 1751 to 1754 . Oliver Wolcott was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and also of the Articles of Confederation, as a representative of Connecticut and the nineteenth governor . He was a major general for the Connecticut Militia in the Revolutionary War serving under George Washington . </P> <P> The original colonies along the Connecticut River and in New Haven were established by separatist Puritans who were connected with the Massachusetts and Plymouth colonies . They held Calvinist religious beliefs similar to the English Puritans, but they maintained that their congregations needed to be separated from the English state church . They had emigrated to New England during the Great Migration . </P> <P> The economy began with subsistence farming in the 17th century and developed with greater diversity and an increased focus on production for distant markets, especially the British colonies in the Caribbean . The American Revolution cut off imports from Britain and stimulated a manufacturing sector that made heavy use of the entrepreneurship and mechanical skills of the people . In the second half of the 18th century, difficulties arose from the shortage of good farmland, periodic money problems, and downward price pressures in the export market . In agriculture, there was a shift from grain to animal products . The colonial government attempted to promote various commodities as export items from time to time, such as hemp, potash, and lumber, in order to bolster its economy and improve its balance of trade with Great Britain . </P>

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