1675. retur led to New York without accomplishing his object.

1687.

1. Give an account of

visit of An

necticut. a. Nov. 10.

5. Twelve years later, Andros again appeared in Connecticut, with a commission from King James, ap the second pointing him royal governor of all New England. dros & Con- Proceeding to Hartford, he found the assembly in. session, and demanded the surrender of the charter. A discussion arose, which was prolonged until evening. The charter was then brought in and laid on the table. While the discussion was proceeding, and the house was thronged with citizens, suddenly the lights were extinguished. The utmost decorum prevailed, but when the candles were re-lighted, the charter was missing, and could no where be found.

2. How was the charter

preserved

was done by Andros?

6. 2A Captain Wadsworth had secreted it in a hollow tree, blown down last year and which retains the ven3. What then erated name of the Charter Oak. Andros, however, assumed the government, which was administered in. his name until the revolution in England deprived James of his throne, and restored the liberties of the people.

1689. b. See p. 90.

c. 1689-1697.

4. What oc

curred du
in King

William's
war?
5. What

is said of

7. During King William's war, which immediately followed the English revolution, the people of Connecticut were again called to resist an encroachment on their rights. Colonel Fletcher, governor of New York, had received a commission vesting in him the command of the militia of Connecticut. This was 6. What a power which the charter of Connecticut had reserved taken by the to the colony itself, and the legislature refused to comand what by ply with the requisition. Fletcher then repaired to Fletcher? Hartford, and ordered the militia under arms.

Fletcher's commission?

course was

legislature,

1693.

Nov. 6.

account of Fletcher's

visit to Hartford

8. "The Hartford companies, under Captain Wads 7. Give an worth, appeared, and Fletcher ordered his commission and instructions to be read to them. Upon this, Captain Wadsworth commanded the drums to be beaten. Colonel Fletcher commanded silence, but no sooner was the reading commenced a second time, than the drums, at the command of Wadsworth, were again beaten with more spirit than ever. But silence was again commanded, when Wadsworth, with great earn estness, ordered the drums to be beaten, and turning to Fletcher, said, with spirit and meaning in his looks,

"If I am interrupted again I will make the sun shine 1693. through you in a moment." Governor Fletcher made no farther attempts to read his commission, and soon judged it expedient to return to New York.

1700 1. Give an

account of lishment of

the estab

Yale College

9. 'In the year 1700, several clergymen assembled at Branford, and each, producing a few books, laid them on the table, with these words: "I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony." Such was the beginning of Yale College, now one of the most honored institutions of learning in the land. It was first establisheda at Saybrook, and was after- What is wards removed to New Haven. It derived its name from Elihu Yale, one of its most liberal patrons.

10. The remaining portion of the colonial history of Connecticut is not marked by events of sufficient interest to require any farther notice than they may gain in the more general history of the colonies.

said of the

remaining history of Connecticut?

ROGER WILLIAMS.

c. Jan. 1636. 4. What did

Roger Wil ter his ban

liams do af

ishment from Massa

1. After Roger Williams had been banished from Massachusetts, he repaired to the country of the Narragansetts, who inhabited nearly all the territory which now forms the state of Rhode Island. By the sachems of that tribe he was kindly received, and during fourteen weeks, he found a shelter in their wigwams, from the severity of winter. On the opening of spring he 6. proceeded to Seekonk,‡ on the north of Narragansett

chusetts? he received us?

5. How was

ragansetts?

What did spring

he do in the

Branford is a town in Connecticut, bordering on the Sound, seven miles E. from New Haven.

RHODE ISLAND, the smallest state in the Union, contains an area, separate from the waters of Narragansett Bay, of about 1,225 square miles. In the northwestern part of the state the surface of the country is hilly, and the soil poor. In the south and west the country is generally level, and in the vicinity of Narragansett Bay, and on the islands which it contains, the soil is very fertile.

The town of Seekonk, the western part of the early Rehoboth, lies east of, and adjoining the northern part of Narragansett Bay. The village is on Ten Mile River, three or four miles east from Providenes (See Map next page.)

1. Whither was he ad

1636. Bay, and having been joined by a few faithful friends. from Massachusetts, he obtained a grant of land from an Indian chief, and made preparations for a settlement. 2. 'Soon after, finding that he was within the limits vised to re of the Plymouth colony, and being advised by Mr. move, and Winslow, the governor, to remove to the other side of the water, where he might live unmolested, he resolved a. June. to comply with the friendly advice. Embarking account of with five companions in a frail Indian canoe, he passed tlement of down the Narragansett Rivert to Moshassuck, which Providence. he selected as the place of settlement, purchased the land of the chiefs of the Narragansetts, and, with unshaken confidence in the mercies of Heaven, named 3. What was the place Providence. The settlement was called ment called? Providence Plantation.

2. Give an

the set

the settle

4. What ef fect had reli

tion?

3. As Roger Williams brought with him the same gious tolera- principles of religious toleration, for avowing and maintaining which he had suffered banishment, Providence became the asylum for the persecuted of the neighboring colonies; but the peace of the settlement was never seriously disturbed by the various and discordant opinions which gained admission. 5It was found that the tment was numerous and conflicting sects of the day could dwell beheld together in harmony, and the world beheld, with surprise, the novel experiment of a government in which the magistrates were allowed to rule "only in civil matters," and in which "God alone was respected as 6. Give an the ruler of conscience."

6. What

novel exper

account of the government of the colony.

NARRAGANSE ofreenwich

4. The political principles of Roger Williams were as liberal as his religious opinions. For the purpose

*Narragansett Bay is in the eastern part of the state of Rhode Island, and is twenty-eight miles long from N. to S., and from eight to twelve broad. The N.E. arm of the bay is called Mount Hope Bay; the northern, Providence Bay; and the N. Western, Greenwich Bay. It contains a number of beautiful and fertile islands, the principal of which are Rhode Island, Conanicut, and Prudence. (See Map.) †The northern part of Narragansett Bay was often called Narragansett River.

Providence, one of the capitals of Rhode Island, is in the northern part of the state, at the head of Narragansett Bay, and on both sides of Providence River, which is, properly, a small bay, setting up N.W. from the Narragansett. The Pawtucket or Blackstone River falls into the head of Narragansett Bay, from the N.E., a little below Providence. Brown University is located at Providence, on the east side of the river. (See Map.)

preserving peace, all the settlers were required to 1636. subscribe to an agreement that they would submit to such rules, "not affecting the conscience," as should be made for the public good, by a majority of the inhabitants; and under this simple form of pure democracy, with all the powers of government in the hands of the people, the free institutions of Rhode Island had their origin. The modest and liberal founder of the state reserved no political power to himself, and the territory which he had purchased of the natives he freely granted to all the inhabitants in common, reserving to himself only two small fields, which, on his first arrival, he had planted with his own hands.

1. What is liberality of

said of the

Mr. Wi liams?

2. of what

did he inform the

people of

Massachu setts ?

What did setts solicit of him?

Massachu

5 2Soon after the removal of Mr. Williams to Providence, he gave to the people of Massachusetts, who had recently expelled him from their colony, the first intimation of the plot which the Pequods were forming for their destruction. 3When the Pequods attempted to form an alliance with the Narragansetts, the magistrates of Massachusetts solicited the mediation of Mr. Williams, whose influence was great with the chiefs of the latter tribe. Forgetting the injuries which he . What did had received from those who now needed his favor, onams do? a stormy day, alone, and in a poor canoe, he set out upon the Narragansett, and through many dangers repaired to the cabin of Canonicus.

Mr. Wil

account of

Mr. Wil bassy to the Namagan

liams's em

setts.

6. There the Pequod ambassadors and Narragan- 5. Give an sett chiefs had already assembled in council, and three days and nights Roger Williams remained with them, in constant danger from the Pequods, whose hands, he says, seemed to be still reeking with the blood of his countrymen, and whose knives he expected nightly at his throat. But, as Mr. Williams himself writes, "God wonderfully preserved him, and helped him to break in pieces the negotiation and designs of the enemy, and to finish, by many travels and charges, the English league with the Narragansetts and Mohegans against the situation the Pequods."

7. The settlers at Providence remained unmolested during the Pequod war, as the powerful tribe of the Narragansetts completely sheltered them from the enemy. "Such, however, was the aid which Mr. Wu

6. What

of Previ dence du

ring the Pe

quod war?

7.

What is Williams'

said of Mr.

aid in this war?

1637. liams afforded, in bringing that war to a favorable termination, that some of the leading men in Massachusetts felt that he deserved to be honored with some 1. Why was mark of favor for his services. 'The subject of recallcalled from ing him from banishment was debated, but his principles were still viewed with distrust, and the fear of their influence overcame the sentiment of gratitude.

he n't re

banishment?

1638.

a. April

2. Give an

the settle

3. Of the

ernment. b. Nov.

8. In 1638 a settlement was made at Portsmouth,' in the northern part of the Island of Aquetneck, or account of Rhode Island,† by William Coddington and eighteen ment of others, who had been driven from Massachusetts by Fortsmouth. persecution for their religious opinions. In imitation form of go of the form of government which once prevailed among the Jews, Mr. Coddington was chosen judge, and three elders were elected to assist him, but in the following 1639. year the chief magistrate received the title of governor. 4. Of the set- Portsmouth received considerable accessions during the first year, and in the spring of 1639, a number of the inhabitants removed to the southwestern part of the island, where they laid the foundation of Newport.‡ 5. What The settlements on the island rapidly extended, and given to the the whole received the name of the Rhode Island new settle- Plantation.

Newport.

name was

ments?

1643.

the Planta

ded from the

16431

9. Under the pretence that the Providence and 8. Why were Rhode Island Plantations had no charter, and that tions exclu- their territory was claimed by Plymouth and Massaunion of chusetts, they were excluded from the confederacy which was formed between the other New England colonies in 1643. "Roger Williams therefore proceeded to England, and, in the following year, cbtained from parliament, which was then waging a civil war with the king, a free charter of incorporation, by which the two plantations were united under the same government.

1644. c. March 24. said of the

7. What is

charter from Parliament?

*The town of Portsmouth is in the northern part of the island of Rhode Island, an embraces about half of the island. The island of Prudence, on the west, is attached to this town. (See Map, p. 112.)

↑ Rhode Island, so called from a fancied resemblance of the island of Rhodes in the Mediterranean, is in the southeastern part of Narragansett Bay. It is fifteen miles long, and has an average width of two and a half miles. The town of Portsmouth ce cupies the northern part of the island, Middletown the central portion, and Newport the southern. (See Map, p. 112.)

Newport is on the S.W. side of Rhode Island, five miles from the sea, and twentyAve miles S. from Providence. The town is on a beautiful declivity, and has an excellent harbor. (See Map, p. 112.)