John Haynes

John Haynes (* May 1, 1594 in Essex, † January 1653 or 1654 in Hartford, Connecticut ) was a colonial magistrate. He served as a British colonial governor in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and eight terms in the Connecticut Colony.

John Haynes was born in Essex, England, which was considered a stronghold of the Puritan movement. The son of John Haynes and Mary Michel arrived in England, however, to wealth and land ownership, this left everything to emigrate in July 1633 in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He settled initially in Newtown down and as a prominent member of the colony was chosen him in 1635 to the post of governor. During his tenure, he banished the theologian Roger Williams - a decision that he would later regret.

Due to increasing religious disputes and food shortages in the colony, he left Massachusetts with his family and broke with Thomas Hooker on to found a colony in an area that should be known as Connecticut. Once in the years 1638/39, the " Fundamental Orders " were ratified the colony, Haynes was the first elected governor of the Colony of Connecticut. In the population Haynes was obviously popular, as it remained for the rest of his life either governor or his deputy. He eventually died in January 1653 or 1654 in Hartford.

As his greatest achievement was his work on the construction of the New England States Federal "New England Confederation ". He was married to Mary Thornton and had with her six children together. Several years after her death he married Mabel Harlakenden, by whom he had five more children. One of the children of John Haynes was the later General Hezekiah Haynes, who served as a soldier in the army of Oliver Cromwell.