. Connecticut of to-day : its chief business centres. Illustrated. 1890. d had iu>connection with any chartered company or comiuercial association in England or elsewhere. They felt at libertyto form for themselves such government as should, in their opinion, be best suited to the ends they had in viewwhen they came to this country. The settlers in New Haven were from Yorkshire, England, and first werelocated in Boston, Mass., for about a year prior to coming to New Haven in April, 1638. The deed of purchaseof land from the Quinnipiac Indians was made out in the names of Theophilns Eaton, J
. Connecticut of to-day : its chief business centres. Illustrated. 1890. d had iu>connection with any chartered company or comiuercial association in England or elsewhere. They felt at libertyto form for themselves such government as should, in their opinion, be best suited to the ends they had in viewwhen they came to this country. The settlers in New Haven were from Yorkshire, England, and first werelocated in Boston, Mass., for about a year prior to coming to New Haven in April, 1638. The deed of purchaseof land from the Quinnipiac Indians was made out in the names of Theophilns Eaton, John Davenport, amiothers, on November 24, 1638. The settlers seem to have entered into some sort of an agreement either beforeleaving England or Boston, as to their political and ecclesiastical government, and this agreement they called the Planters Covenant. Whatever may have been the terms of this covenant, the settlers appear to have beenwell satisfied with it, for they adhered to it tenaciously until the 25th of October, 1639, when a civil govern- N EW HAVE N, 129. 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 church.
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