A general history of Connecticut - Ramapough Lenape Nation

HISTORY OF
College, denominated Yale College, of
which a particular account will be- given
in the courfe of this work. He was a
churchman of the puritanic order, zealous,
learned, and of a mild difpolition ;
and frequently wrote to his brother Hugh
at Salem ., to exercife more moderation,
leO: ce 'overmuch zeal {bould ruin him
"and the caufe they were embarked in."
At
• William, Thomas, and Hugh Peters, were
brothers. and born at Fowey, in Cornwan, in
Old England. Their Father was a merchant of
gteat property; and their Mother was Elizabeth
Treffry, Daughter of John Treffry, Efq. of a very
ancient and opulent family in Fowey.---William
was educated at Leyden, Thomas at Oxford,
and Hugh at Cambridge U11iverfities.---About
the years r610 and 1620, Tliomas and Hugh
were clergymen in London, and William was a
private gcntJeman.---About 1628. Thomas and
Hugh, rendered obnoxious by their popularity
and puritanifm, were filenced by the Bifhop of
London.---They then went to Honand, and remained
there till 1633, when they retiJrned to
London. ---The three beathen fold their landed
property, and went to New-England in 1634.--
Hugh