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The Fundamental Agreement of the New Haven Colony was signed on June 4, 1639. The free planters (founders of the New Haven Colony) who assented to the agreement are listed below:
In the corporate colony the executive was organically the agent of the general court and, when the two were harmonious, was actually used as such; while in the province the executive was the rival and the competitor of the lower house.
NewHaven was thus included within that colony—as she also would have been if the validity of the claims of Connecticut under the Warwick patent could have been established.
New Netherland, with the Connecticut River as its eastern boundary, was to be granted to the Duke of York and Dutch rule overthrown.
The Avalon Project : FundamentalAgreement, or Original Constitution of the Colony of NewHaven, June 4, 1639
FundamentalAgreement, or Original Constitution of the Colony of NewHaven, June 4, 1639
But if the offence were private, that mens names might be tendered, so many as were offended were intreated to deal with the offender privately, and if he gave not satisfaction to bring the matter to the twelve, that they might consider of it impartially and in the fear of GOD.
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