Definition of thomas hooker in English English dictionary
born probably July 7, 1586, Markfield, Leicestershire, Eng. died July 7, 1647, Hartford, Conn. Anglo-American colonial clergyman. He held pastorates in England (1620-30), where he was attacked for Puritan leanings. He fled to Holland before emigrating to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1633. As pastor of a company of Puritans, he moved them to Connecticut to settle Hartford in 1636. He helped frame the Fundamental Orders (1639), which later formed the basis of the Connecticut constitution