. A brief history of the United States . ll freemen the rightto vote. This was the first instance in history of a ivrittenconstitution framed hy the 2)eo2)le. 3. The Sayhrook Colonywas at first governed by the proprietors, but was after-ward sold to the Connecticut colony. This reduced the threecolonies to two. A Royal Charter was obtained (1662) which unitedboth these colonies and guaranteed to all the rights uponwhich the Connecticutcolonists had agreed. Thiswas a precious document,since it gave them almostindependence, and wasthe most favorable yetgranted to any years aft
. A brief history of the United States . ll freemen the rightto vote. This was the first instance in history of a ivrittenconstitution framed hy the 2)eo2)le. 3. The Sayhrook Colonywas at first governed by the proprietors, but was after-ward sold to the Connecticut colony. This reduced the threecolonies to two. A Royal Charter was obtained (1662) which unitedboth these colonies and guaranteed to all the rights uponwhich the Connecticutcolonists had agreed. Thiswas a precious document,since it gave them almostindependence, and wasthe most favorable yetgranted to any years after,Governor Andros march- • _ J. T> i i 1 THE CHARTER OAX. mg from Boston over the route where the pious Hooker had led his little flock fiftyyears before, came glittering with scarlet and lace intothe assembly at Hartford, and demanded the charter. A pro-tracted debate ensued. The people crowded around to take alast look at this guarantee of their liberties, when suddenlythe hghts were extinguished. On being relighted, the charter. 64 EPOCH II. [1687. was gone. William Wadsworth had seized it, escaped throughthe crowd and hidden it in the hollow of a tree, famous everafter as the Charter Oak. However, Andros pronounced thecharter government at an end. Finis was written at theclose of the minutes of their last meeting. When the gov-ernor was so summarily deposed in Boston the people broughtthe charter from its hiding-place, the general court reassem-bled, and the finis disappeared.* RHODE ISLAND. Settlement.—Eoger Williamsf settled Providence Planta-tion in 1636, the year in which Hooker came to exiles from Massachusetts followed, | among them thecelebrated Mrs. Hutchinson. A party of these purchased §the island of Aquiday and established the Ehode Island Plan-tation. Roger Williams stamped upon these colonies his * Another attempt to iofringe upon charter rights occurred in 1693. GovernorFletcher ordered the militia placed under his own command. Having c
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