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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 17: (search)
abitants of the eastern part of Long Island resolved, in town-meetings, to adhere to Connecticut. The charter certainly did not countenance their decision; and, unwilling to be declared rebels, they submitted to New York. In the following summer, Andros, with armed sloops, 1675 July 9 proceeded to Connecticut to vindicate his jurisdiction as far as the river. On the first alarm, William Leet, Chap. XVII.} 1675 the aged deputy-governor, one of the first seven pillars of the church of Guilford, educated in England as a lawyer, a rigid republican, hospitable even to regicides, convened the assembly. A proclamation was unani- July 10. mously voted, and forwarded by express to Bull, the captain of the company on whose firmness the independence of the little colony rested. It arrived just as Andros, hoisting the king's flag, demanded the sur- 11. render of Saybrook Fort. Immediately the English colors were raised within the fortress. Despairing of victory, Andros attempted pers