The founding of New England

by James Truslow Adams

[783]. Ibid., p. 369. Cf. A. Johnston, Connecticut (Boston, 1887), pp. 17 ff.

[784]. Cal. State Pap., Col., 1661-68, pp. 87 f. (April 23, 1662).

[785]. New Haven Records, vols. I, pp. 149, 211, and II, p. 519. The early references to the real and phantom ships are gathered in Atwater, New Haven, pp. 537 ff.

[786]. New Haven Records, vol. II, p. 404; cf. pp. 429 ff.

[787]. For the events connected with the transfer, vide New Haven Records, vol. II, pp. 513 ff.; Acts United Colonies, vol. II, pp. 308 ff., 318, 324 f.; Conn. Col. Records, vol. II, pp. 407, 415, 437, 586 ff.

[788]. R. I. Records, vol. I, pp. 485 ff., 489 ff.

[789]. Ibid., vol. II, pp. 4 ff.; Cal. State Pap., Col., 1661-68, pp. 148 ff.

[790]. For the theory that these exceptionally liberal charters were granted as part of a policy to alienate the southern colonies from Massachusetts, vide Kaye, Colonial Administration under Clarendon, pp. 75 ff. His arguments for placing the important paper, 706, in Cal. State Pap., Col., 1661-68 under date 1666-67, instead of 1664, seem conclusive.

[791]. Agreement in R. I. Records, vol. I, p. 518; Cal. State Pap., Col., 1661-68, pp. 148 ff.

[792]. R. I. Records, vol. II, pp. 18 ff.