nd annually elect the magistrates. Trial by jury was
dispensed with, because no such institution was found in the Mosaic
law.
In 1649 Southold, on Long Island, and in 1651 Branford, on the
main-land, were admitted as members of the New Haven confederacy; and
in 1656 Greenwich was added. And the seven towns thus comprehended
gave the colony of New Haven the utmost extent it ever obtained.
[Footnote 1: Winthrop, _New England_, I., 146.]
[Footnote 2: Winthrop, _New England_, I., 176, 177.]
[Footnote 3: Ibid., 225, 226; Gardiner, _Pequot Warres_ (Mass. Hist.
Soc., _Collections_, 3d series, III.), 131-160.]
[Footnote 4: Gardiner, _Pequot Warres_; Winthrop, _New England_, I.,
231-233, 238, 259.]
[Footnote 5: Mass. Hist. Soc., _Collections_, 1st series, I., 175.]
[Footnote 6: Winthrop, _New England_, I., 234-236.]
[Footnote 7: Ibid., 267, 312; Mason, _Pequot War_ (Mass. Hist. Soc.,
_Collections_, 2d series, VIII.), 132.]
[Footnote 8: _Conn. Col. Records_, I., 9.]
[Footnote 9: Mason, _Pequot War_ (Mass. Hist. Soc., _Collections_, 2d.
series, VIII.), 134-136.]
[Footnote 10: Ibid.; Underhill, _Pequot War_ (Mass. Hist. Soc.,
_Collections_, 3d series, VI.), 25.]
[Footnote 11: Mason, _Pequot War_ (Mass. Hist. Soc., _Collections_, 2d
series, III.), 144.]
[Footnote 12: Ibid.; Winthrop, _New England_, I., 268, 278-281.]
[Footnote 13: Trumbull, _Connecticut_, I., 92.]
[Footnote 14: Mason, _Pequot War_ (Mass. Hist. Soc., _Collections_, 2d
series, VIII.), 148.]
[Footnote 15: _Conn. Col. Records_, I., 20-25, 119.]
[Footnote 16: The same rule prevailed in Massachusetts. For the
result, see Baldwin, _Early History of the Ballot in Connecticut_
(Amer. Hist. Assoc. _Papers_, IV.), 81; Perry, _Historical Collections
of the American Colonial Church_, 21; Palfrey, _New England_, II.,
10.]
[Footnote 17: Winthrop, _New England_, I., 368.]
[Footnote 18: Trumbull, _Connecticut_, I., 507-510.]
[Footnote 19: Palfrey, _New England_, II., 377.]
[Footnote 20: Winthrop, _New England_, I., 283, 312, 484.]
[Footnote 21: _New Haven Col. Records_, I., 12.]
[Footnote 22: Trumbull, _Connecticut_, I., 98.]
[Footnote 23: _New Haven Col. Records_, I., 11-17.]
[Footnote 24: Trumbull, _Connecticut_, I., 107; Doyle, _English
Colonies_, II., 196.]
[Footnote 25: _New Haven Col. Records_, I., 69.]
[Footnote 26: Ibid., 112.]
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CHAPTER XVI
NEW HAMPSHIRE AND MAINE
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