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In this Order they subscribed their Names, with their own Hands, which we have to shew, and they inscribed or directed this Letter-To our worthy Friends, the Governor and Assistants of the Plantations of New-Haven, in New-England. Whereby you may clearly see, that the Right Hon. the Earl of Warwick, and the Lord Viscount Say and Seal (lately one of his Majesty's that now is, King Charles the Second, his Most Honourable Privy Council, as also the Right Honourable Earl of Manchester still is) had no Purpose after New-Haven Colony, situated by the Sea Side, was settled to be a distinct Government, that it should be put under the Patent for Connecticut, whereof they had only framed a Copy, before any House was erected by the Sea Side, from the Fort to the Dutch: which yet was not signed and sealed by the last King for a Patent, nor had you any Patent till your Agent, Mr. Winthrop, procured it about two Years since.

9. That in the Year 1650, when the Commissioners for the four united Colonies of New-England met at Hartford, the now Dutch Governor being then and there present, Mr. Eaton, the then Governor of New-Haven Colony, complained of the Dutch Governor's encroaching upon our Colony of New-Haven. by taking under his Jurisdiction a Township beyond Stamford, called Greenwich, all the Commissioners (as well for Connecticat, as for the other Colonies) concluded that Greenwich, and four Miles beyond it, belongs to New-Haven Jurisdiction, whereunto the Dutch Governor then yielded, and restored it to New-Haven Colony.—Thus were our Bounds Westward settled by Consent of all.

10. That when the Honourable Governor of Connecticut, John Winthrop, Esq; had consented to undertake a Voyage for England, to procure a Patent for Connecticut, in the Year 1661, a Friend warned him by Letter not to have his Hand in so unrighteous an Act, as so far to extend the Line of their Patent, that the Colony of New-Haven should be involved within it. For Answer thereunto, he was pleased to certify that Friend in two Letters, which he wrote from two several Places before his Departure, that no such Thing was intended. but rather the contrary; and that the Magistrates had agreed and expressed, in the Presence of some Ministers, that if their Line should reach us (which they knew not, the Copy being in England) yet New-Haven Colony should be at full Liberty to join with them or not. This Agreement, so attested, made us secure, who else could have procured a Patent for ourselves, wherein our own known Bounds, according to Purchase, without doing any Wrong to Connecticut in their just Bounds and Limits, would have been expressed.

11. That notwithstanding all the Premises, in the Year 1662, when you had received your Patent, under his Majesty's Hand and Seal, contrary to your Promise and solemn Confederation? and to common Equity, at your first General Assembly (which yet could not be called general without us, if we were under your Patent, seeing none of us were called thereunto) you agreed among yourselves, to treat with New-Haven Colony about Union by your Commissioners, chosen for that End. Within two or three Days after that Assembly was dissolved, but before the ending of that Session, you made an unrighteous Breach in our Colony, by taking under your Patent some of ours from Stamford and from Guilford, and from Southold, contrary to your Engagements to New-Haven Colony, and without our Consent or Knowledge. This being thus done, some sent from you to treat with us shewed some of ours your Patent, which being read, they declared to yours, that NewHaven Colony is not at all mentioned in your Patent, and gave you some Reasons why they believed, that the King did not intend to put this Colony under Connecticut, without our Desire or Knowledge; and they added, that you took a preposterous Course in first dismembering this Colony, and after that treating with it about Union; which is as if one Man, purposing to treat with another about Union, first cut off from him an Arm, and a Leg, and an Ear, then to treat with him about Union. The Rev. Mr. Stone also, the Teacher of the Church at Hartford, was one of the Committee, who being asked what he thought of this Action, answered, that he would not justify it.

12. After that Conference, our Committee sent, by Order of the General Court, by two of our Magistrates, and two of our Elders, &c. & Writing, containing sundry other Reasons for our not joining with you, who also, finding that you persisted in your own Will and Way, declared to you our own Resolution to appeal to his Majesty, to explain his true Intendment and Meaning in your Patent, whether it was to subject this Colony under it or not? being perswaded, as we still are, that it neither was nor is his Royal Will and Pleasure to confound this Colony with yours, which would destroy the so long continued, and so strongly settled, Distinction of the four united Colonies of New-England, without our Desire or Knowledge.

13. That accordingly we forthwith sent our Appeal to be humbly presented to his Majesty, by some Friends in London; yet, out of our dear and tender Respect to Mr. Winthrop's Peace and Honour, some of us advised those Friends, to communicate our Papers first to the Honourable Mr. Winthrop himself, to the End that we might find out some effectual

Expedient, to put a good End to this uncomfortable Difference between you and us, also to prevent our humble Address to his Majesty. Accordingly it was done, and Mr. Winthrop stopped the Proceeding of our Appeal, by undertaking to our Friends, that, -&c.

N. B. The rest is wanting, either from some Leaves being tore or lost out of the Book, or from the whole being never entered.

New-Haven Colony then proceed to vote to apply to England for a Patent themselves, and laid a Rate to bear the Expence-and vote to appoint an Agent to solicit the Matter.

No. 21.

Governor Winthrop's Letter to Connecticut, before-mentioned. GENTLEMEN,

I am informed by some Gentlemen who are authorized to seek Remedy here, That since you had the late Patent, there bath been injury done to the Government of New-Haven, and in particular at Guilford and Stamford, in admitting of several of the Inhabitants there unto Freedom with you, and appointing Officers, which hath caused Divisions in the said Towns, which may prove of dangerous Consequence, if not timely prevented, tho' I do hope the Rise of it is from Misunderstanding, and not in Design of Prejudice to that Colony, for whom I gave Assurance to their Friends, that their Rights and Interests should not be disquieted or prejudiced by the Patent, but if both Governments would, with unanimous Agreement, unite in one, their Friends judged it for Advantage to both; and further I must let you know, that Testimony here doth affirm, that I gave Assurance before Authority, that it was not intended to meddle with any Town or Plantation that was settled under any other Government, had it been any otherwise intended or declared, it had been injurious in taking out the Patent, not to have inserted a proportionable Number of their Names in it.-Now upon the Whole, having had serious Conference with their Friends, authorized by them, and with others. who are Friends to both, to prevent a tedious and Chargeable Trial, and uncertain Event here, I promised them, to give you speedily this Representation, how far you are engaged, if any Injury have been done, by admitting of Freemen, or appointing Officers, or any other unjust intermeddling with New-Haven Colony, in one Kind or other, without the Approbation of the Government, that it be forthwith recalled, and that for the

Future, there will be no imposing in any Kind upon them, nor admitting of any Members without mutual Consent, but that all Things be acted as loving neighbouring Colonies, as before such Patent granted, and unto this I judge you are obliged, I having engaged to their Agents here, that this will be by you performed, and they have thereupon forborne to give you or me any Trouble; but they do not Doubt, but upon future Con sideration, there may be such a right Understanding between both Governments, that an Union and friendly Joining may be established, to the Satisfaction of all, which at my Arrival I shall also endeavour (God willing) to promote; not having more at present in this Case, I rest,

Your humble Servant,

JOHN WINTHROP.

Subscription. For Major John Mason, Deputy-Governor of Connecticut Colony, and the rest of the Court there, at Hartford.

N. B. Mr. Winthrop was the Governor of Connecticut Colony, at the Time of writing this Letter, and soon after returned from England, and was with the Commissioners, at the Time of their settling the Rounds of Connecticut.

August 11, 1664.

Upon Advice being received from Hartford, as coming from Boston, that certain Commissioners were appointed by the Crown to visit the New-England Colonies, and it being represented to New-Haven, that they would fare hardly without having any Charter, they agreed that Hartford should demand them, as being within their Charter, and that thereupon they. New-Haven Colony, should be silent, making no Opposition while the Bounds were settling. —And thereupon the same were settled at Maroneck River, as before-mentioned, and which included them. They then wrote to Hartford the following Letter.

No. 22.

A Letter from New-Haven Colony to Connecticut, as followeth. HONOURED GENTLEMEN,

We have been silent hitherto, as to the making any Grievance known unto the King's Commissioners, notwithstanding what may be with us of such Nature, from the several Transactions that have been amongst us, are desirous so to continue the managing of these Affairs in Ways consistent with

the ancient Confederation of the United Colonies, choosing rather to suffer, than to begin any Motion hazardful to NewEngland Settlements in Pursuance whereof (according to our Promise to your Gentlemen, sent lately to demand our Submission, tho' in a divided if not dividing Way, within our Towns, severally seeking to bring us under the Government of yourselves already settled, wherein we have had no Hand to settle the same, and before we had cleared to our Conviction the certain Limits of your Charter, which may justly increase the Scruple of too much Haste in that and former Actings upon us) the Generality of our undivided People have orderly met this 13th of Tenth Month (64) and by the Vote endorsed, have prepared for this Answer to be given of our Submission, which being done by us, then for the Accommodations of Matters betwixt us in an amicable Way, by a Committee impowered to issue with you on their Behalf, and in the Behalf of all concerned, according to Instructions given to the said Committee. We never did, nor even do intend, to damnify your moral Rights or just Privileges, consistent with our like honest Enjoyments, and we would hope that you have no further Step towards us, not to violate our Government Interest, but to accommodate us with that we shall desire, and the Patent bear, as hath been often said you would do; and surely you have the more Reason to be full with us herein, seeing that your Success for Patent Bounds with those Gentlemen now obtained, seems to be Debtor unto our Silence before them, when as you thus by single Application and Audience issued that Matter, you thus performing to Satisfaction, we may still rest silent, and according to Profession, by a studious and cordial Endeavour with us to advance the Interest of Christ in this Wilderness and by the Lord's Blessing thereupon, Love and Union between us may be greatly confirmed, and all our Comforts enlarged, which is the earnest Prayer of, Gentlemen,

Your loving Friends and Neighbours the Committee, appointed by the Freemen and Inhabitants of New-Haven Colony, now assembled,

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We have received yours, dated the 14th of this Instant, signed by James Bishop, &c. wherein you are pleased to mention

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