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This blue commemorative plaque records: Thomas Hooker 1586-1647. Curate of St Mary's Church, Chelmsford and Town Lecturer 1626-1629. Founder of the State of Connecticut 1636. "Father of American Democracy" Recorded plaque organisation: Chelmsford City Council.
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Thomas Hooker was an English Puritan minister who emigrated to Massachusetts and later founded the colony of Hartford, which became the state of Connecticut, advocating for democratic principles that influenced early American governance.
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