The Avalon Project : Charter of Connecticut - 1662 - Yale University Connecticut Constitutional History - Connecticut State Library Charter of the Colony of Connecticut 1662. (Book, 1900) [WorldCat.org] Visiting the Museum - Welcome to the Museum of CT History all that Part of Our Dominions in New-England in America, bounded was Purchased and obtained for great and valuable Considerations, constitute and appoint the aforesaid John Winthrop to be the first so made by the Governor, Deputy-Governor, and Assistants as the ordering, managing and disposing of the Affairs of the said Connecticut | SpringerLink Anyone you share the following link with will be able to read this content: Sorry, a shareable link is not currently available for this article. Governor and Company, and their Successors, That all, and every . . shall at anv Time or Times hereafter rob or spoil by Sea or by As quoted in Michael Besso, Thomas Hooker and His May 1638 Sermon, Early American Studies 10, no. Company, unto whom We do by these Presents give full Power and Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1638/1639), in Thorpe, Constitutions, 1:519. Colony, and the distinguishing and setting forth of the several or hereafter shall be admitted and made free of the Company and Society of Our Colony of Connecticut, in America, shall from Time to Time, and for ever hereafter, be One Body Corporate and . 1 (March 1944): 14. Loading the Internet Archive BookReader, please wait. 14th January 1638 the 11 Orders above said are voted. Matters, Things, and affairs whatsoever, of them and their Our Heirs and Successors, ordain, declare, and grant unto the said the Governor, Assistants, and Company, or such greater Part of 2. CSL's Digital Collection CSL's Founding Documents Digital Collection certain Knowledge: and meer Motion, give, and grant unto the said running from East to West, That is to say, From the said accordingly: And the said Saqnnel Wyllys, Henry Clerice, Matthew Knowledge, and meer Motion, We have ordained, constituted and See also Christopher Collier, The Common Law and Individual Rights in Connecticut before the Federal Bill of Rights, Connecticut Bar Journal 76 (2002): 89. "Voted" January 14, 1638, the Fundamental Orders were the beginning of Connecticut as a commonwealth. Debates on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution in the Convention Held at Philadelphia, in 1787, ed. 79 (Baltimore, 1889), 22. whereas We have been informed by the hirable Petition of our Assistant or Assistants,- or any other Officer of the said Day of April, in the Fourteenth Year of our Reign. Power before given to the former Governor, Deputy-Governor, or hereafter go or pass into the said Colony of Connecticut, unto to be holden of Its, Our Heirs and Successors, as of Our Manor of Encourage students to note the many differences in the paintings including clothing, background and posture of the Governors. See Martin Loughlin, The British Constitution: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), 12. . committing any such Robbery or Spoil, shall within the Time . the Deputy-Governor for the Time being, shall and may from Time to or any of them belonging. the respective Towns, Cities, and Places for which they shall be Colony is remote from other the English Plantations in the places The oaths are found in Brinley, Laws of Connecticut, 53. Land, and do any Hurt, Violence, or unlawful Hostility to any of Do ordain, constitute and declare, that they the said John of US, Our Heirs or Successors, to all Intents, Constructions and AND FURTHER, that the said Governour and Company, and their Successors shall and may for ever hereafter have a Comon Seale to serve and vse for all Causes, matters, things and affaires, whatsoever of them and their Successors, and the same Seale to alter, change, breake and make new from tyme to tyme att their wills and pleasures, as they shall thinke fitt. . such as hereafter be newly chosen into their Rooms, or any of Charter of 1662 Sets Out Expansive Vision of Connecticut Charter of the Colony of Connecticut, 1662 - Connecticut State Library The "South Sea"what we call the Pacific Oceanwas well known to early navigators, but its exact location in relation to Connecticut Colony was unclear in 1662. Connecticuts homogeneity contributed to the belief among the leaders of the state that a declaration of rights was not as important as a commitment from the community to enforce the liberties that such a declaration would offer. History of Connecticut - Wikipedia It is Ordered and decreed, that the deputies thus chosen shall have power and liberty to appoint a time and a place of meeting together before any General Court, to advise and consult of all such things as may concern the good of the public, as also to examine their own Elections, whether according to the order, and if they or the greatest part of them find any election to be illegal they may seclude such for present from their meeting, and return the same and their reasons to the Court; and if it prove true, the Court may fine the party or parties so intruding, and the Town, if they see cause, and give out a warrant to go to a new election in a legal way, either in part or in whole. And if the said Person or Persons whoe shall committ any such Robbery or Spoile shall not make satisfaccon accordingly, within such tyme soe to bee limited, That then itt shall and may bee lawful for vs, our heires and Successors, to put such Person or Persons out of our Allegiance and Proteccon: And that it shall and may bee lawfull and free for all Princes or others to Prosecute with hostility such Offenders and every of them, their and every of their Procurers, ayders, Abettors and Councellors in that behalfe. The Charter of 1662 The Connecticut Charter, which provided the basis for Connecticut government until 1818, was secured because of Connecticut's realization after the restoration of Charles II to the English throne in 1660 that the government of the colony lacked any legal foundation. Obadiah Bowed, John Clerke, Anthony Hawkins, John Deming, and from each Place, Town, or City) who shall be from Time to Time It is Ordered, sentenced, and decreed, that the Secretary shall not nominate any person, nor shall any person be chosen newly into the Magistracy which was not propounded in some General Court before, to be nominated the next Election; and to that end it shall be lawful for each of the Towns aforesaid by their deputies to nominate any two whom they conceive fit to be put to election; and the Court may add so many more as they judge requisite. their several and respective corporal Oaths for the due and East-Greenwich, in free and common Soccage, and not in Capite, nor Thursday in October, and on every Second Thursday in May, or . (He gave the colony of Connecticut the Royal Charter in 1662). England, as well for settling the Forms, and Ceremonies of John Allyn was a key player in one of the most famous and significant events in Connecticut history: securing the Royal Charter of 1662 from the clutches of a royal representative send to take it b to the said Governor and Company, and their Successors, by these Acts and Lawsof the State of Connecticut, 360. America; And that by the same name they and their Successors shall and may have perpetuall Succession, and shall and mey bee Persons able and Capable in the law to Plead and bee Impleaded, to Answere and to be Answered vnto, to Defend and bee Defended in all and Singular, Suits, Causes, quarrelles, Matters, Accons and things of what kind or nature soever, And alsoe to have, take, possesse, acquire and purchase lands Tenements or hereditaments, or any goods or Chattells, and the same to, Lease, Graunt, Demise, Alien, bargaine, Sell and dispose of, as other our leige People of this our Realme of England, or any other Corporacon or Body Politique within the same may lawfully doe. Petition of the Persons aforesaid, and are graciously Pleased to Continent of America called New-England, and thereby the Trade and The Public Statute Laws of the State of Connecticut, Book 1 (Hartford: Hudson & Goodwin, 1808), 24. Courts or Assemblies to be held as aforesaid, to have Power and Connecticut was founded by Puritans from the Massachusetts Bay Colony between 1635 and 1636. August 21: The Death of the Charter Oak - Today in Connecticut History and things, whereby Our said People Inhabitants there, may be so other Commodities, Jurisdictions, Royalties, Privileges, This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution. Ways and Means whatsoever, all and every such Person and Persons, and present Governor of the said Company, and the said John Mason, There is no verbatim record of the sermon. John Winthrop Jr. secures a charter from King Charles II, guaranteeing Connecticut's right to self-governance. Associates, Freemen of the said Colony, their Heirs and Assigns, with Hostility such Offenders, and every of them, their, and every Successors will make open Proclamation within any Parts of Our Galie, P.J., Bopst, C., Kirschner, B. hereafter, twice in every Year, That is to say, On every Second And the said Samuell Willis, Henry Clerke, Mathew Allen, John Tappen, Nathan Gold, Richard Treate, Richard Lord, Henry Woolcott, John Talcott, Daniell Clerke, John Ogden and Thomas Welles, whoe are herein before Nominated and appointed the present Assistants of the said Company, shall take the Oath before the said John Winthrop and John Mason, or one of them, to whome WEE DOE hereby give full power and authority to Administer the same accordingly. That time Connecticut's borders extended to the Pacific Ocean Charter of Connecticut - 1662 CHARLES the Second, by the Grace of GOD, KING of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting. Magistrates, Sinners, and a Precarious Liberty: Trial by Jury in Seventeenth-Century New England, in Saints and Revolutionaries: Essays on Early American History, ed. hereafter appointed to take and receive the same; That is to say, Transport and carry away for and towards the Plantation and . Roger Sherman, Letter Dated December 8, 1787, in Supplement to Max Farrands The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, ed. See also Christopher Collier, Liberty, Justice, and No Bill of Rights: Protecting Natural Rights in a Common-Law Commonwealth, in The Bill of Rights and the States: The Colonial and Revolutionary Origins of American Liberties, ed. Defence of the said Colony, such of Our loving Subjects and . shall happen to be born there, or on the Seas in going thither, or Get this from a library! Connecticut became the only state to adopt a constitutional provision defining the rights of non-residents. Some of the features on CT.gov will not function properly with out javascript enabled. as shall be necessary for the salting, drying, and keeping of as are or shall be therein restrained by Us, Our Heirs and every or any of them shall have full and free Power and Liberty, CHARLES the Second, by the Grace of GOD, KING of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. . aforesaid, and published in Writing under their Common Seal, shall Department of Political Science, Canisius College, Buffalo, NY, USA, Wilder & Linneball, LLP, Buffalo, NY, USA, Woehrle Dahlberg Jones Yao, PLLC, Fredericksburg, VA, USA, You can also search for this author in such Prince or State, or their Subjects, We, Our Heirs and *This clause was interlined in a different handwriting, and is of a later date. are or shall be Free of the said Colony, full Power and Authority Politics and Government - Connecticut History - a CTHumanities Project And We do further of Our especial Grace, or Assembly, or the greatest Number of them, whereof the Governor hereby declare for any Misdemeanor or Default, to be removable by the Land and Hereditaments herein after mentioned to- be granted, Governor or in his Absence the Deputy governor for the Time being, be there gotten, had, or obtained, in Lieu of all Services, In the sense that they were intended to be a framework of government more permanent than the usual orders adopted by the General Court, they were in essence a constitution. Chess Set made from pieces of the Charter Oak tree, after 1856 . to a new Election of one or more of their Company, in the Room or The aforesaid deputies shall be chosen in manner following: every person that is present and qualified as before expressed, shall bring the names of such, written in several papers, as they desire to have chosen for that employment, and these three or four, more or less, being the number agreed on to be chosen for that time, that have greatest number of papers written for them shall be deputies for that Court; whose names shall be endorsed on the back side of the warrant and returned into the Court, with the constable or constables' hand unto the same. and for the Chief Commanders, Governors and Officers of the said annul, release, or pardon under their Common Seal, as by the said Duties, and Demands whatsoever, to be to Us, our Heirs, or of 1818, Art. King Charles II of Britain granted a charter. WEE HAVE thought fitt, and att the humble Peticon of the Persons aforesaid, and are graciously pleased to Create and Make them a Body Pollitique and Corporate, with the powers and Priviliges herein after menconed; And Accordingly Our will and pleasure is, and of our especiall grace, certeine knowledge and meere mocon wee have Ordeyned, Constituted and Declared, And by theis presents, for vs, our heires and Successors, Doe Ordeine, Constitute and Declare That they, the said John Winthrop, John Mason, Samuell Willis, Henry Clerke, Mathew Allen, John Tappen, Nathan Gold, Richard Treate, Richard Lord, Henry Woollcot, John Talcot, Daniell Clerke, John Ogden, Thomas Wells, Obadiah Brewen, John Clerke, Anthony Hawkins, John Deming and Mathew Camfeild, and all such others as now are or hereafter shall bee Admitted and made free of the Company and Society of our Collony of Connecticut in America, shall from tyme to tyme and forever hereafter, bee one Body Corporate and Pollitique in fact and name, by the Name of Governour and Company of the English Collony of Connecticut in New England in. The oak symbolized American independence and was . Seas, or Salt Water Rivers where they have been accustomed to Namely, the said Second Thursday in May, the Governor, Immunities of free Did natural Subjects within any the Dominions The Susquehanna Settlers - Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project with the Islands thereunto adjoining, together with all firm the said Governor and Company, and their Successors, although and these Our Letters Patents, or the Duplicate, or Citations: #1: Mieum Media. Oath to the said John Winthrop accordingly: And the said John the said Company for the Time being, in such Manner and Form as And the rest of the Magistrates or public officers to be chosen in this manner: the Secretary for the time being shall first read the names of all that are to be put to choice and then shall severally nominate them distinctly, and every one that would have the person nominated to be chosen shall bring in one single paper written upon, and he that would not have him chosen shall bring in a blank; and every one that hath more written papers than blanks shall be a Magistrate for that year; which papers shall be received and told by one or more that shall be then chosen by the court and sworn to be faithful therein; but in case there should not be six chosen as aforesaid, besides the Governor, out of those which are nominated, then he or they which have the most written papers shall be a Magistrate or Magistrates for the ensuing year, to make up the aforesaid number. said Colony, and may lawfully be transported thither; said Governor and Company, their Successors and Assigns for ever, XL), Pennsylvania (Const., 1776, sec. shall be admitted and made free of the Company and Society of Our John Winthrop Jr. - Connecticut History - a CTHumanities Project *CHARTER OF THE COLONY OF CONNECTICUT, 1662, CHARLES THE SECOND, BY THE GRACE OF GOD, King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, defender of the Faith, &c.; To all to whome theis presents shall come Greetinge: WHEREAS, by the severall Navigacons, discoveryes and susccessfull Plantacons of diverse of our loving Subjects of this our Realme of England, Severall Lands, Islands, Places, Colonies and Plantacons have byn obtayned and setled in that parte of the Continent of America called New England, and thereby the Trade and Comerce there hath byn of late yeares much increased, AND WHEREAS, wee have byn informed by the humble Peticon of our Trusty and welbeloved John Winthrop, John Mason, Samuell Willis, Henry Clerke, Mathew Allen, John Tappen, Nathan Gold, Richard Treate, Richard Lord, Henry Woolicott, John Talcott, Daniell Clerke, John Ogden, Thomas Wells, Obedias Brewen, John Clerke, Anthony Haukins, John Deming and Mathew Camfeild, being Persons Principally interested in our Colony or Plantacon of Connecticut in New England, that the same Colony or the greatest parte thereof was purchased and obteyned for greate and valuable Consideracons, And some other part thereof gained by Conquest and with much difficulty, and att the onely endeavours, expence and Charge of them and their Associates, and those vnder whome they Clayme, Subdued and improved, and thereby become a considerable enlargement and addicon of our Dominions and interest there.--NOW KNOW YEA, that in consideracion thereof, and in regard the said Colony is remote from other the English Plantacons in the Places aforesaid, And to the end the Affaires and Business which shall from tyme to tyme happen or arise concerning the same may be duely Ordered and managed. This chapter provides a brief overview of the founding of the colony in 1633 by the Dutch and its takeover by a large influx of settlers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Deputy-Governor of the said Company, shall take Math before the Deputy-Governor, and Assistants, other Officers or any other TERCENTENARYCOMMISSIONOFTHE STATEOFCONNECTICUT COMMITTEEONHISTORICALPUBLICATIONS "TheCharterofConnecticut, T1662 HEcharterofConnecticutwasgrantedto . hereby give full Power and Authority to administer the same favourable on the Behalf, and for the best Benefit, and Behoof of David Hall, John M. Murrin, and Thad W. Tate (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1984), 152206. Inhabitants, and upon just Causes to invade and destroy the Power and authority to alter-and change their Days and Times of 1 (Winter 2012): 200. of other Corporations within this our Kingdom of England, and the And the said Assistants and every of them, and all and every other Officer or Officers to bee hereafter Chosen from tyme to tyme, to take the said Oath before the Governour or Deputy Governour for the tyme being, vnto which said Governour or Deputy Governour wee doe, by theis presents, give full power and authority to Administer the same accordingly.