Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-10-14
Connecticut Colonial Record.


Another volume, the sixth of the series of the
colonial records of Connecticut, from 1717 70
1925, carefully edited by Mr.. Charles j. Hoad.
ley, whose antiquarian scholarship leaves moth
ing to be desired in such a task, puts within
popular reach much interesting and new his
torical material.
There is a great deal of new matter printed
with reference to the establishment of Yale col
lege at New Haven; the settlement of the matter
gave the government a great deal of trouble and
when it was resolved TO place it in New Haven.
and remove the library from Saybrook to that
place, it was also decided to build state house
in Hartford.
In the October session of the assembly at
New Haven in I'LL, the question being put
whether under the circumstances of the affairs
OF the collegiate school the reverend trustees be
advised to proceed in that affair and finish the
house they have begun in New Haven for the
entertainment of scholars, it was voted in the
amrmatlYe, by SO voices in the lower house.
Two days previously the representatives had re-
solved to settle the college at M.ddletown by
vote of So for that place to 81
for New Haven. AT the May session,
lIl7, they had voted it to be for the pub
lie good and the health of the school TO settle it
on or near the Connecticut river. And in May,
Ills, "consi iering the great dissatisfaction of
the country in general" it was voted that it
must he settled somewhere near the Connecticut
and until it was so settled the hundred pounds
granted to the tutors should be divided be-
tween the tutors at Wethersfield, Saybrook and
New. Haven, according TO the proportion of
scholars, and that it be recommended that the
cOmmencements be Interchangeable one wear at
Wethersfeld and one year at New Haven. The
location of the college took up much of the
time of the assembly for several sessions, and
there was much feeling with regard to it, The
editor says that the earliest use of tue previous
question in our house of representatives occurs
in the debates on this subject.
AT the October session, 171S, an act was
passed fixing the collegiate school aud building
the house for it at New Haven, and for a final
settlement of all the differences and misunder-
standings on the subject, the act was made to
cover all the points of management, the
building of state house among them.
The annual salary for the past year was to be
distributed as aforesaid among the tutors at the
three towns; the scholars at Wethers6ed shall
have their degree at New Haven without further
examination, and when transferred shall retain
their standing. The third article of the COM
promise was:
THAT there shall be FIVE hundred pounds
allowed for the building Of a state house at
Hartford, which money shall be procured,
etc. And it is ordered that the scholars nj
Wethersfeld come down to the school at New
Haven"
The books belonging to the school at Say
brook were transferred to New Haven, and fifty
pounds was voted to Saytrook for the use of
the school in said town. And, lastly, it was
voted that the college be carried on at New
Haven. Notwithstanding this, we find some
trouble made the next year by the desertion OF
students at Wethersfeld
II we are inclined TO look upon the present
railroad at New Haven as monopoly, what
shall we say to the privilege granted to Captain
John Munson lof New Haven at the October
session, I'LL. He had First been at the cost
ana charge to set up Wagon, to pass and
transport passengers and goods between Hart
ford and New Haven" and he was granted the
sole and only privilege of dong this for seven
Years. Provided however, that he annually
during that time, at least on the first Monday of
every month"; except December, January Feb
ruary and March, "set forth with the said
wagon from New Haven, and with all conven-
tent dispatch, drive up to Hartford, and thence
in the same week, return to New Haven, bad
weather and extraordinary casualties excepted,
on penalty of ten shillings each neglect" And
whoever infringed said privilege and trans
ported themselves or goods in any other wagon
than John Munson's excepting their own,
should forfeit forty ShillingS to John.
ms must have been a great relief to Hart
lord, which in town vote in 1716 expressing
dissatisfaction with the location of the college
at New Haven, spoke of the latter place as
being so very remote, and the Transporting
anything by water thither being so uncertain,
there being but little communication between
these counties (Hartlord and New LOndon) and
New Haven"
We find several instances in the volume of the
decisions of the general assembly sitting as a
supreme court, reversing or affirming the action
OF the superior court.
1t is very interesting to trace the beginning of
manufactures in Connecticut. They were all
monopolieS.
In October, III, Edward Human of Stratford
was granted the right to make cornstak mo-
lasses; for ten years he had the exclusive right
in Fairfield county to make molasses from Indian
cornstalks provided he make as good molasses
and as cheap as comes from the West Indies"
In October, 171S, john Prout and others were
granted for twenty years the exclusive privilege
of making "lnseed Oyl within this colony" the
factory to be set up in New Haven. In October,
1119, their privilege was by penalties further
confirmed to them to make 'Inseed and rape
oyl"
In May, 1922, Ebenezer Fitch, and others, were
granted the sole privilege within the colony for
fifteen years, of setting up at Suffield Sitting
mill, Ito slit and draw out iron rods for nails,
and for other artiicers in iron, their work and
use"
In October, 1925, Richard Rogers of New Lon
don prayed for and obtained for seven years the
sole liberty in the colony of making duck. equiv
aent to Holland duck, and all persons were for
hidden TO make duck except by permission of
Rogers; but he was Obliged to make into duck
all the materials brought him or forfeit his ex-
elusive privilege.
The old colony was very much governed