in the Colony at Saybrook would have lived peace with the Indians, as they did till their artful and overbearing neighbours brought on a general war between them and the English, which ended with the death of Saffacus and the deftruction of all his fubjects. After that war, great diffention arofe among the conquerors. Fenwick was fenfible, of a calm difpofition, and very religious; yet not entirely void of ambition. He claimed the government of all Connecticut, and infifted upon payment for fuch lands as were poffeffed by Hooker and Davenport, and their affociates: this, he said, was but common justice due to his conftituents, the Lords Say and Brook. Hooker and Davenport, however, were not fond of his doctrine of justice, but made religion, liberty, and power, the greater objects of their concern; wherein they were fupported by the people of MaffachufetsBay, whofe fpirits were congenial with their own. Hence no opportunity was loft of prejudicing Saybrook; and the troubles in the Mother-Country fürnifhed their enemies with many. One ftep they took, in particular, operated much to its difadvantage. The Maffachufets Colony,eager to act against Charles I. agreed with thofe of Hertford and Newhaven, Newhampshire, and Rhode-Ifland, to fend agents to England, affuring the House of Commons of their readiness to affift against the King and Bishops. The Saybrook fettlers, though zealous against the Bishops, were not much inclined to rebellion against their King, and therefore took no part in this tranfaction. As the royal caufe loft ground in England, the apprehenfions of this Colony increased; and Fenwick, finding himself unfupported by the Lords Say and Brook, thought it prudent to difpofe of his colonial property to Peters and his affociates, and return to England. Confufion being efta ་ blished in England, moderation became an unpardonable fin in Saybrook, which both the neighbouring Colonies were ready to punish by affuming the jurifdiction there: mutual jealousy alone prevented it. At length, during Cromwell's ufurpation, the inhabitants, fearing the effects of his displeasure for not joining in the aboveméntioned addrefs to the Commons in England, and efpecially left he should put them under the power of the furious Davenport, and at the fame time forefeeing no profpect of the Restoration, judged it adviseable, by way of preferring the leffer to the greater evil, to form a fort of alliance and junction with the people of Hertford, where Hooker now lay numbered with the dead. The Colony was not only hereby enabled to maintain its ground, but flourished greatly; and the Minifter, Thomas Peters, eftablished a School in Saybrook, which his children had the fatisfaction to fee become a College, College, denominated Yale College, of which a particular account will be given in the courfe of this work. He was a churchman of the puritanic order, zealous, learned, and of a mild difpofition; and frequently wrote to his brother Hugh at Salem, to exercise more moderation, left" overmuch zeal fhould ruin him "and the cause they were embarked in." At * William, Thomas, and Hugh Peters, were brothers, and born at Fowey, in Cornwall, in Old England. Their Father was a merchant of great property; and their Mother was Elizabeth Treffry, Daughter of John Treffry, Efq. of a very ancient and opulent family in Fowey. ---William was educated at Leyden, Thomas at Oxford, and Hugh at Cambridge univerfities.--- About the years 1610 and 1620, Thomas and Hugh were clergymen in London, and William was a private gentleman.---About 1628, Thomas and Hugh, rendered obnoxious by their popularity and puritanism, were filenced by the Bishop of London. They then went to Holland, and remained there till 1633, when they returned to London. ---The three brothers fold their landed property, and went to New-England in 1634.-- - Hugh At his death, which did not happen till after the Reftoration of Charles II. he bequeathed his library to the school above mentioned. The Hugh fettled at Salem, and became too popular for Mather and Cotton. He was foon appointed one of the Trustees of the College at NewCambridge.--He built a grand houfe, and purchafed a large tract of land.---The yard before his house he paved with flint-ftones from England; and, having dug a well, he paved that round with flint-ftones alfo, for the accommodation of every inhabitant in want of water. It bears the name of Peters's Spring to this day.--He married a fecond wife, by whom he had one daughter named Elizabeth. The renown of this zealot increafing, he received an invitation to remove from Salem to Bofton, and, complying with it, he there laid the foundation-ftone of the great Meeting-Houfe, of which the Rev. Dr. Samuel Cooper, one of the most learned of the Literati in America, is the prefent minifter. Mather and Cotton ill brooked being out-rivalled by Hugh; yet, finding him an orthodox fanatic, and more perfect than themfelves, they feemingly bowed to his fuperiority, at the fame time that they laid a fnare for his deftruction. In 1641 those envious paftors confpired with the Court at Boston to convert their Bishop Hugh into a E Politician, |