[673] Reference may here be made to a valuable note on the alleged incident, as related by Dr. Benjamin Trumbull in 1797, which has for so many years invested “The Charter Oak” with so much interest. See Palfrey, iii. 542-544. Vol. iii. of the Colonial Records contains a valuable official correspondence relating to this period, and also the “Laws enacted by Governor Andros and his Council,” for the colony, in 1687.
[674] The first volume (1860) has reprints of Gershom Bulkeley’s The People’s Right to Election ... argued, etc., 1869, following a rare tract of Mr. Brinley on Their Majesties’ Colony of Connecticut in New England Vindicated, 1694. A second volume of Collections was issued in 1870.
[675] [The first, in 1865, contained a history of the colony, by Henry White; an essay on its civil government, by Leonard Bacon; and others on the currency of the colony, etc. In the second is a valuable sketch of the life and writings of Davenport, by F. B. Dexter, and some notes on Goffe and Whalley from the same source. The third includes J. R. Trowbridge, Jr., on “The Ancient Maritime Interests of New Haven;” Dr. Henry Bronson on “The early Government of Connecticut and the Constitution of 1639;” and F. B. Dexter on “The Early Relations between New Netherland and New England.”—Ed.]
[676] It has a map of New Haven in 1641.
[677] [There is no considerable Connecticut bibliography of local history; and F. B. Perkins’s Check-List of American Local History must be chiefly depended on; but the Brinley Catalogue, nos. 2,001-2,340, is very rich in this department. So also is Sabin’s Dictionary, iv. 395, etc., for official and anonymous publications. There are various miscellaneous references in Poole’s Index, p. 292. E. H. Gillett has a long paper on “Civil Liberty in Connecticut” in the Historical Magazine, July, 1868. Mr. R. R. Hinman’s Early Puritan Settlers of Connecticut was first issued in 1846-48 (366 pages), and reissued (884 pages) in 1852-56. Cf. N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1870, p. 84. Savage’s Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, however, is the chief source of genealogical information for the earliest comers.—Ed.]
[678] The official name of this State since 1663 is “Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.” The Island of “Aquedneck,” its Indian name, spelled in various ways, was so called till 1644, when the Court ordered that henceforth it be “called the Isle of Rhodes, or Rhode Island.” It is said that Block, the Dutch navigator, in 1614, gave the island the name of “Roodt Eylandt,” from the prevalence of red clay in some portions of its shores. There are traditions connecting the name with Verrazano and the Isle of Rhodes in Asia Minor, which require no further mention. See Arnold’s Rhode Island, i. 70; Rhode Island Colonial Records, i. 127; Verrazano in 2 N. Y. Hist. Coll., i. 46; Brodhead’s New York, i. 57, 58; Amer. Antiq. Soc. Proc., i. 367; J. G. Kohl, in Magazine of American History, February, 1883.
[679] In 1838 it was republished as vol. iv. of Rhode Island Historical Society’s Collections, edited by Professor Romeo Elton, with notes, and a memoir of the author, and reissued in Boston in 1843; cf. Carter-Brown Catalogue, iii. 600.
[680] It was reprinted in 2 Mass. Hist. Coll., ix. 166-203. It is called “inaccurate” by Bancroft.
[681] Cited by S. G. Arnold, History of Rhode Island, i. 124.
[682] Bartlett’s Bibliography of Rhode Island, p. 204.