52 6 Charles I. Naval Expeditions , &c. of the English, Book III
1626. him to the Northward, among the Fi-shermen, to make good His Proclama-tion to prohibit any such Fishing, uponthe Coasts of England and Scotland, byall foreign Nations who would not ack-nowledge His Majesty’s Prerogative onthose Seas.
The IDutch , H ' s Lordship failing, therefore tofishing Bajses the Northward, where the Dutch Bui-attacked by ses were fishing on our Coasts, required
Northurn^ t ^ em t0 desist, which they not readilyberland." doing, he fired at them, took and funksome, and dispersed the rest; whereup-on the Dutch sollicited the Admiral, tomediate with the King, that they mighthave Leave to go on with their Fishingthis Summer, for which they wouldpay to His Majesty thirty ThousandThe Dutch Pounds; And they accordingly did so
^kutefor Fish- anc * their Inclination to have a
itig. Grant from the King to do the like for
the future, upon paying a yearly Tri-bute.
sent to New England on Account of se- 163d. , 4 n ,
veral Persons of Quality, who had i Tai fi
bought of the Lord Say, and the LordBrook, some Lands on the River which 1
runs thro’ Conneblicut-Coionj. Mr. Fen- I
wick seated himself at the Mouth of the :
River-, And built the Town called Say- j
brook. The Lords Say and Brook’s Ti- ^
tie to that Territory was by a Grant * 1 fitte
from the Earl of tKarwick, to whom I
the King had given it. The Connebli-cut-Colonj thinking, that by purchasingthis Ground, their Right to the Landthey had seized without any Grantwould be the stronger, bought it ofMr. Fenwick , by Consent of the Pro-prietors; That Gentleman having butbegun his Plantation, and finding suffi-cient Encouragement to finish it. Withthis Shadow of a Constitution, they con-tinued ’till after the Restoration, andthen they procured a Charter from theCrown.
The first Settlement of the Connecticut-Colony,/« New England.
The first Settlement of the Colony atNewhaven.
Rr E»u> - In the proceeding Chapter, I tookAmerica’ *** Notice, that the vast Success of the Co-Vol. I p. 37. lony of Majfachufef s Bay had encour-aged great Numbers of People to go o-ver thither, insomuch that many of themwere forced to remove to other Parts ofthe Country.
The first who broke up from Majfa-chu/et-Colonj was Mr. Thomas Hooker ,Colony. KUt Minister of Cambridge, who seated him-self in a Place on Conneblicut River,where he built the Town of Hertford,in the County from thence call’d by theHertford f ame Name. From TVater-town, they
a pLcesTuilt. went and settled on the Place where' now IVeathers -Field stands, as they didfrom Roxbury to Springfield. This newSettlement had a Sort of Commission forwhat they did,from that of Maffachuset ;But finding they had extended their Dis-coveries, far beyond the Limits of thatColony, they set up an IndependantGovernment of their own, founding iton a League or Agreement among them-selves, became a Body Politick, madenecessary Laws and Orders, chose pro-per Officers to execute them, and Ed-ward Hopkins, Esq; to be their firstGovernour, which Office he, withJohn Haynes Esq; enjoyed alternately,for many Years.
This Settlement was scarce well fix-ed, before George Fenwick , Esq; was
Two Years after the Settling the Co-Newhavefl'lony at Conneblicut, Mr. Theophilus Ea- C°l° n y-ton, and Mr. Davenport, Minister, hear-ing of another Bay to the South-West ofConneblicut, purchased of the Proprie-tors all the Land which lay betweenthem and Hudson *s River, which dividesthe Southern Parts of New England fromNew York ; And removed thither inthe Year 1637. where they seated pfff n f b Nthemselves in a pleasant Bay; and builtNewhaven, which gave Name to the Co-lony, as also Gulls ord Milford, Stam-ford, and Brains ord. Tho’ they had aRight to the Lands by Purchase, theyhad none to a particular Government ;
Yet they formed themselves, by mutu-al Agreement, into a Body Politick, andchose Mr. Eaton for their Governour.
From 1636. to 1639. waS chieflytaken up with the King’s Dissensions The Kfjwith the Scots-, He, on his Side, en-deavouring to force Episcopacy upon C °them, and they exerting themselves asstrenuously in theDefence of their Kirk-,
But this Year, His Majesty, findingnothing was to be done by fair Means,resolved upon a War to reduce theScots to his Obedience: And from thisTime we may properly Date the Be-ginning of this unhappy Monarch’sTroubles.
For