Connecticut as a colony and as a state; or, One of the original thirteen; . CONNECTICUT AS A STATE form such a constitution of civil government as will secureto the freemen of Connecticut equal rights and a continuanceof those numerous privileges which have so long distin-guished the people of the State. The new political party, whose battle cry was Tolerationand Reform, when its age is taken into consideration, pre-sented an array of leaders unprecedented in the history of theState. Prominent among these was Pierrepont Edwards, thevenerable founder of the party. He was the youngest sonof the
Connecticut as a colony and as a state; or, One of the original thirteen; . CONNECTICUT AS A STATE form such a constitution of civil government as will secureto the freemen of Connecticut equal rights and a continuanceof those numerous privileges which have so long distin-guished the people of the State. The new political party, whose battle cry was Tolerationand Reform, when its age is taken into consideration, pre-sented an array of leaders unprecedented in the history of theState. Prominent among these was Pierrepont Edwards, thevenerable founder of the party. He was the youngest sonof the Rev. Jonathan Edwards, and possessed a fund of legallore. He was appointed by President Jefferson as UnitedStates Judge for Connecticut, and early identified himselfwith the organization of Freemasonry in the State. He waschosen the first Grand Master of that order. Among theother recognized leaders were Alexander Wolcott of Middle-town, the founder and father of the Jefferson school of poli-tics in the State, the Baptist divine Rev. Asabel Morse ofSuffield, the sometime
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