A general history of Connecticut - Ramapough Lenape Nation

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enabled to fupport its -independence, and'
as ufual defpifed Hertford and Saybrook,
and withal paid no attention to the
King and Parliament of England.-The
PeopleofMaffachufets, who were ever forward
in promoting their own confequence,
obferving the temper and conduct of thefe
ofNewhaven, conceived an idea at once of
exalting an individual of their own Province,
and of· attaching .Hertford and
Saybrook to their interefi: for ever. The.y
fent Mr. Jonn Winthrop privately to Hertford,
to promote a petition to Charles II.
for a charter, as a 1ecurity againft the
ambition of Newhaven.-The Boftonians
boafi:ed of having had the honour,
of fenling Hertford, which they therefore
profeffed to confider in the light of a
near and dear connection. The propofal
was accepted by the few per[ons to whom
it was communicated, but, in framing
their petition, they found themfelves deficient
in their title to the lands. This
obliged