Our first century . Portsmouthand other exiles for consciences sake joined her fromtime to time in that and neighboring settlements. Aftera time these settlements, made in behalf of liberty, andsympathizing with each other in all their ideas, were unitedinto a single colony which afterwards became the state ofRhode Island. Territorially Rhode Island is the smallest state in theunion. Historically it is scarcely too much to say thatin one respect at least it is the greatest, inasmuch as it ^first s:ave birth to the thought of absolute political and ,religious liberty as a human right, and inasm
Our first century . Portsmouthand other exiles for consciences sake joined her fromtime to time in that and neighboring settlements. Aftera time these settlements, made in behalf of liberty, andsympathizing with each other in all their ideas, were unitedinto a single colony which afterwards became the state ofRhode Island. Territorially Rhode Island is the smallest state in theunion. Historically it is scarcely too much to say thatin one respect at least it is the greatest, inasmuch as it ^first s:ave birth to the thought of absolute political and ,religious liberty as a human right, and inasmuch as/within its dominions, first of all places on earth, the ideaof such liberty was enacted into law. CHAPTER IX THE CONFEDERATION OF THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES THE fertility of the Connecticut River country con-tinued to tempt immigrants and in spite of theDutch claims, a company of Puritans from Eng-land, after tarrying awhile in Boston, established a colonythirty miles west of the Connecticut River, at the point. New Amsterdam in Stuyvesants time. where the city of New Haven now stands, in immigrants were even more intolerant in religiousand political behefs than were those of Plymouth orMassachusetts Bay. About a quarter of a century laterthis colony, and the settlements surrounding it, were96 NEW ENGLAND CONFEDERATION 97 united with the other colonies in that region and werecalled Connecticut. The Dutch in New Amsterdam still claimed the regionwest of the Connecticut River and by way of supportingtheir claim they bought lands there from the PequotIndians. The Pequots seem to have had no good titleto these lands. They had acquired them by force, driv^ing away another tribe which had previously owned theregion. The English settlers, therefore, disputed thevalidity of the Dutch title thus obtained from the Pe^quots. They induced the Indians whom the Pequots haddriven away to come back again and they supported themin their resumed possession of the lands by buildin
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