Thomas Hooker
1586–1647 · Congregational (New England) · Hartford, Connecticut
Thomas Hooker (1586–1647), silenced in Essex and driven first to Holland and then to Massachusetts, led his congregation overland in 1636 to found Hartford and the colony of Connecticut. His searching preaching on conversion and the preparation of the heart, of which The Activity of Faith is a specimen, made him one of the most influential Puritan pastors of New England.