History of Connecticut CIVIL AND ECCLESIASTICAL From the Emigration of its First Planters, from England, V.2. District of Connecticut, ss. BE it remembered, that on the twenty-second day of June, in the 42d year of the Independence of the United States of America, Maltby, Goldsmith & Co. and Samuel Wadsworth, of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit: "A complete "History of Connecticut, civil and ecclesiastical, from the emigration of its first planters, "from England, in the year 1630, to the year 1764; and to the close of the Indian wars. "In two volumes. By Benjamin Trumbull, D. D. With an Appendix, containing the "original Patent of New-England, never before published in America "-in conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned." R. I. INGERSOLL, Clerk of the District of Connecticut. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. State of the Churches, continued from Book 1. Chapter XIX, 1; attempts for the reformation of manners, 1; act of Assembly, and report of the General Association relative to the subject, 1, 2; resolutions of the General Assembly in consequence of said report, 3; state of the College, 5; divisions concerning the place in which it should be established, 6; donations made for its encouragement, 10; a college house is erected at New-Haven, 10; books removed from Saybrook to the library in that place, 13; opposition to their removal, 13; loss sustained, 14; Mr. Cutler is appointed Rector, 14; but soon embracing Episcopacy, is dismissed from office, 15; the students are instructed by the trustees, 17; Mr. Elisha Williams chosen Rector, 18; encouragement for schools and the general diffusion of knowledge, 18. CHAPTER II. The discovery and opening of mines, 21; laws and encouragement in behalf of the miners, and of those who were engaged in carrying on the business of mining, 22-7. CHAPTER III. The importance and benefits of a stable currency, 27; attention of the Legislature to this subject, 27; the manner of the emission of bills of credit, 28; of the payment of the public debt, 28; and of provision for the defence of the colony and his majesty's service, 29; answer to their Lordships' letters, 30; depreciation of the currency, 31. CHAPTER IV. The colony in fear of losing their Charter, 31; measures adopted to prevent it, 31; Mr. Winthrop complains of the colony, 33; in an appeal to his Majesty in Council, in a case between him and Thomas Linchmere, Esq., he obtained a sentence by which a certain law of the colony, entitled an act for the settlement of intestate estates, was rendered null V and void, 33; the colony declared that they will not surrender their charter, and pray for the continuance of the act relative to intestate estates, 34. CHAPTER V. War with the Eastern Indians, 36; attempts to quiet them by treaty, 36; the attack and plunder of Canso, 38; a treaty with them is promised, but prevented by the measures of the House, 39; letter of the Indians to the Governor, 39; death of Toxus, 39; a new Sachem, and change of affairs, 39; attempt on Norridgewock, 41; the Indians avenge the insult, captivate a number of the English, and burn Brunswick, 42; war is proclaimed against them, 42; Governors Shute and Burnet apply to Connecticut for assistance in the war, 45; the enemy surprise Canso and other harbors, and take a number of fishing vessels, 43; Elliot's and Robinson's success in attacking them, 43; remarkable deliverance of the captives. 44; attack on Arowsick island, 44; Westbrook and Harman's expedition, 46; attempts of the English to engage the six nations in a war against the Eastern Indians, 45; they send delegates to Boston, 47; Coleby's action with the enemy, 47; attack on Scarborough, Falmouth, and other places, 46; resolutions of the Legislature of Connecticut relative to the war, 48; men killed in various places, 49; Captain Winslow and his men killed: shallops and schooner taken, 50; English take and destroy Norridgewock, 51; numbers of men surprised and killed in various places, 53; application is made again to Connecticut for assistance, 53; the reasons why the Legislature would not join in offensive war, 53; Captain Lovell's fight, 54; peace is made, 55; observations, 56. CHAPTER VI. the Grants and settlements of the lands in the colony which had not been granted and settled before the year 1713; principally in the counties of Windham and Litchfield, 56; a more particular account of the settlement of the towns of Lebanon and New-Milford, than has been given in the first volume of this history, 56; set. 342342 tlement of the towns of Ashford, Tol- land, Bolton, Stafford and Litchfield, 59; county of Windham formed, 64; Somers and Willington settled, 64; incorpora- tion of East-Haddam, 65; extraordinary noises formerly heard in that town, 65: settlement and incorporation of Union, 67; controversy between the government and the towns of Hartford and Windsor, relative to the lands within the county of Litchfield, 68; the disorders and troubles occasioned by it in the colony, 70; agree- ment between the government and the said towns, 72; the lands in controversy divided into townships and measured, 74; orders for the sale of those of them be- longing to the colony, by auction, at dif- ferent times and places, 76; the money arising from the sale to constitute a per- manent fund for the benefit of schools in the colony, 75; New-Fairfield settled and incorporated, 67; description of the new Separation at Guilford, 85; Rev. Mr. Ruggles ordained at Guilford, against a large minority in opposition to him, 86; the minority separate from the church and society, 87; the legislature interpose, and attempt a reconciliation, 93; the minority persist in their separation, and qualify themselves for a distinct ecclesias- tical society, by conforming to the act of William and Mary, 92; resolutions of the consociation of the county of New-Haven respecting them, 97; they refuse to com- ply with said resolutions, 96; in conse- quence of it, forty-six church members were suspended from the communion, by Mr. Ruggles and the first church in Guil- ford, from whom they had separated, 96; acts of the General Assembly, and coun- cils, concerning them, 93-102; great pains taken, and repeated attempts made, for many years, to unite the parties, but expedition against the Spanish settle- ments in the West-Indies, 220; regiments raised in the colonies, 221; his majesty's requisition of the colony, 220; measures adopted in compliance with it, 220; Porto Bello attacked, taken, and plundered, 221; unsuccessful expedition against Carthagena and Cuba, 221; the French declare war against England, 223; Canso taken by the French, 223; expedition against Cape Breton, 223; it surrenders to Admiral Warren and General Pep- perell, 232; sickness among the Provin- cials who kept garrison there, 234; the effects of its capture on the French court, 236; the Duke D'Anville's armament, 237; alarm in New-England, 238; his The reception of the towns of Wood- stock, Suffield, Enfield and Somers, under the jurisdiction of Connecticut, 246; and the grant of the same privileges to the societies and churches in those towns which the ecclesiastical societies and the churches in this colony enjoyed, 248; the opposition made to it by the A Spanish ship arrives at New-London, in distress, 249; the cargo is unladen, and stored in that port, 249; when it was called for by the supercargo, a great proportion of it could not be found, 249; Don Joseph Miguel, the supercargo, re- fuses to sail without the whole of his cargo, 249; petitions the assembly, 249; the resolution of the legislature respect- General state of the churches in Con- necticut and New-England, 103; revivals of religion in some few places, before the great and general revival in 1737 and 1738, and especially in 1740 and 1741, 103; some of the principal instruments of it, 123; great opposition to it by magistrates and ministers, 127; laws enacted against it. 127; disorders attending it, 132; separ- ations from the churches soon after, 157: spirit and character of those who separated from the ministers and churches at that time, 135; happy effects of the work in general, 193. Spanish and French war, 219; the The history of the College continued from Chapter I., 251; its state under the tions made to it while he presided, 251; he resigns, 252; the Rev. Thomas Clap chosen president, 252; a new charter granted, 255; a new college, or Connecti- cut hall, built, 261; Professor of Divinity settled, 272; labors and donations, 272; enemies of the college write against it. 274; petition the assembly to take it out of the hands of the corporation, appoint visitors, &c., 274; the president appears and pleads the cause of the college before the assembly, 275; chapel is built, 280; an account of donations is interspersed, Difficulties arise at Milford, on the |