...of Long tnded there in 1638, Hendly branches of A day of fasting agreement that " all of them would be ordered by the rules which the Scriptures held forth to them." Thus the town of New Haven was founded. 91. A Union of Towns Forms the New Haven Colony. Other settlements...

...Their piantaing and a simple "plantation covenant" that in all things tion Covenant "all of them would be ordered by the rules which the scriptures held forth to them." Unfortunately the date and the text of this covenant have been lost. Although a similar enactment for...

...themselves, "that as in matters that concern the gathering and ordering of a Church, so also in all publick offices which concern civil order; as choice of Magistrates...would all of them be ordered by the rules which the scripture held forth to them." (Trumbull.) By this covenant they were regulated the first year. On...

...magistrates and officers, making and repealing laws, dividing allotment of inheritance, and all other things of like nature, they would all of them be ordered...the rules which the Scriptures held forth to them." This was the general platform on which all were to stand, until they could elaborate the details of...

...supernatural, for primitive man early came to think that gods and demigods and all 10 LEGISLATIVE PRINCIPLES magistrates and officers, making and repealing laws,...would all of them be ordered by the rules, which the scripture held forth for them." In the following year on the 4th of June all the freemen assembled...

...formed and subscribed what they denominated a plantation covenant. By this instrument they engaged " that as in matters that concern the gathering and...would all of them be ordered by the rules which the Scripture held forth to them." This may be considered the original civil constitution of the New Haven...

...magistrates and officers, making and repealing laws, dividing allotments of inheritance, and all tllings of like nature, they would all of them, be ordered by the rules which the scripture held forth to them." The Rev. John Davenport had before preached to them on the " temptations...

...they rested their first frame of government on a simple plantation covenant, that " all of them would be ordered by the rules which the Scriptures held forth to them." A title to lands was obtained by a treaty with the natives, whom they protected against the Mohawks....