. Connecticut of to-day : its chief business centres. Illustrated. 1890. 130 NEW HAVEN. ment was instituted and installed. A nieetiny; was called on June 4tli, in that vear, in Franeis Newmans barn,to consult about settling civil government according to God, and about nominating persons that might be foundof all fittest for the foundation work of a The meeting resolved unanimously upon this Fundamental Agreement: that church members only shallbe burgesses, and they only shall choose among themselves magistrates and officers to have the power of trans- Nh:W HAVHN. i:Jl acting all jmbli
. Connecticut of to-day : its chief business centres. Illustrated. 1890. 130 NEW HAVEN. ment was instituted and installed. A nieetiny; was called on June 4tli, in that vear, in Franeis Newmans barn,to consult about settling civil government according to God, and about nominating persons that might be foundof all fittest for the foundation work of a The meeting resolved unanimously upon this Fundamental Agreement: that church members only shallbe burgesses, and they only shall choose among themselves magistrates and officers to have the power of trans- Nh:W HAVHN. i:Jl acting all jmblic, civil affairs of the plantation, of making and repealing laws, dividing inheritances, deciding ofdifferences that may arise, and doing all things and business of like nature. The meeting also made choice oftwelve men to select from among themselves, or from others whom they should publicly nominate as candidatesfor that trust, the seven founders of the Church and the State. Those seven, by this act of founding thechurch, became free burgesses of the coninionwealth, the nucleus of the civil organization, and thev had tochoose other free burgesses out of like estate of church fellowship. The seven chosen were: ThoophilusEaton, John Davenport, Robert Newman, Mathew Gilbert, Theo. Fugill, John Pundorson, and Jeremy Dixon,who, on the 25tli of October
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