Here are the 163 men and women listed in the Book of Distribution of Land as being those who settled in Hartford, Connecticut before February 1640. Their names are on a monument in Hartford's Ancient Burying Ground.
There are later settlers who lived in Hartford in the 17th century, but are not considered Founders of Hartford. Proof of descendancy from any of these people permits admission in the Society of the Descendants of Hartford, Connecticut, which was started in 1931.
- Adams, Jeremy
- Allyn, Matthew
- Andrews, Francis
- Arnold, John
- Bacon, Andrew
- Barnard, John
- Barnes, Thomas
- Bartlett, Robert
- Baysey, John
- Beals, Thomas
- Bearding, Nathaniel
- Betts, Mary
- Bidwell, John
- Billing, Richard
- Birchard, Girod
- Blachford, Peter
- Blatchley, Thomas
- Bliss, Thomas, Sr
- Bliss, Thomas, Jr
- Blumfield, William
- Bridgeman, James
- Bronson, John
- Bull, Thomas
- Bunce, Thomas
- Burr, Benjamin
- Butler, Richard
- Butler, William
- Chaplin, Clement
- Chester, Mrs Dorothy
- Church, Richard
- Clarke, John
- Cole, James
- Cornwell, William
- Crow, John
- Cullick, John
- Davis, Philip
- Davy, Fulke
- Day, Robert
- Desborough, Nicholas
- Easton, Joseph
- Edwards, William
- Elmer, Edward
- Ely, Nathaniel
- Ensign, James
- Field, Zachary
- Fisher, Thomas
- Friend, John
- Gardner, Samuel
- Garrett, Daniel
- Jennings, John
- Gibbons, William
- Goodman, Richard
- Goodwin, Ozias
- Goodwin, William
- Grant, Seth
- Graves, George
- Greene, Bartholomew
- Greenhill, Samuel
- Gridley, Thomas
- Hale, Samuel
- Hale, Thomas
- Hall, John
- Hart, Stephen
- Hayden, William
- Haynes, John
- Higginson, Rev John
- Hills, William
- Holloway, John
- Holton, William
- Hooker, Reverend Thomas
- Hopkins, Edward
- Hopkins, John
- Hosmer, Thomas
- Hubbard, George
- Hungerford, Thomas
- Hyde, William
- Ince, Jonathan
- Judd, Thomas
- Keeler, Ralph
- Kellogg, Nathaniel
- Kelsey, William
- Lay, Edward
- Lewis, William, Sr
- Lord, Richard
- Lord, Thomas
- Lord, Thomas, Jr
- Lyman, Richard
- Marsh, John
- Marvin, Matthew
- Marvin, Reinold
- Maynard, John
- Moody, John
- Morris, John
- Munn, Benjamin
- Munson, Thomas
- Mygatt, Joseph
- Olcott, Thomas
- Olmsted, Richard
- Olmstead, John
- Pantry, William
- Parker, William
- Peck, Paul
- Phillips, William
- Pierce, John
- Porter, Thomas
- Post, Stephen
- Pratt, John
- Pratt, William
- Purchase, John
- Richards, Nathaniel
- Richards, Thomas
- Risley, Richard
- Roote, Thomas
- Rusco, William
- Sable, John
- Scott, Thomas
- Selden, Thomas
- Seymour, Richard
- Skinner, John
- Smith, Giles
- Spencer, Thomas
- Spencer, William
- Stanley, John
- Stanley, Thomas
- Stanley, Timothy
- Stanton, Thomas
- Stebbins, Edward
- Steele, George
- Steele, John
- Stocking, George
- Stone, Rev Samuel
- Talcott, John
- Upson, Thomas
- Wade, Robert
- Wadsworth, William
- Wakley, Henry
- Wakeman, Samuel
- Ward, Nathaniel
- Warner, Andrew
- Warner, John
- Watts, Richard
- Webb, Richard
- Webster, John
- Welles, Thomas
- Westley, William
- Westwood, William
- White, John
- Whitehead, Samuel
- Whiting, William
- Wilcox, John
- Wolterton, Gregory
- Woodford, Thomas
- Wyllys, George
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