MAGISTRATES.

[From a deficiency in the records of New Haven, no list of Magistrates for the years 1644-1652 can be made out. In 1646, Thomas Gregson, Richard Malbon, William Fowler, John Astwood, Samuel Desbrough, and Andrew Ward were elected. (N. H. Rec., I. 275.) Thurston Rayner was a Magistrate in 1644 (Ibid., 135); Richard Malbon, in 1645 (Ibid., 257); and John Astwood and Samuel Desbrough, in 1649 (Ibid., 467). Beginning with 1653, the series was as follows:-}

[Robert Treat was re-elected in 1664, but did not take the oath of office; nor did John Wakeman nor John Nash, elected respectively in 1661 and 1664; nor William Gibbard, on his first election, in 1661.]

Randall Holden, 1647, 1653-1655, 1657, Edward Smith, 1654.