A general history of Connecticut - Ramapough Lenape Nation

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oh! kindle in no other breafi: the willi
to feek new worlds :-Africa already
mourns, and Europe trembles 1--_
The true ·charaCter of Davenport and
Eaton, the leaders of the firft fetders
of Newhavens may be learnt from the
following faCt :-An Englifll gentleman,
of the name of Grigfon, coming, on his
travels, to Newhaven, about the year
J644, was greatly pleafed with its plea­
{ant fituation; and s after purchafing a
large {ettlement, rent to London for his
wife and family. But before their arrival,
he found that a charming fituation, wich-\
out the bleffing of religious and civil liberty,
would not render him and his family
happy: he refolved, therefore, to
quit the country, and return to England,
as foon as his famil y iliould arrive, and
accordingly advertifed his property for
fale j when lo! agreeable to one of the
Blue Laws, no one would buy, becaufe
he had not, and could not obtain liberty
of