Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Connecticut as a Colony and as a State, or One of the Original Thirteen, Vol. 1
The above may be thought a rhetorical extravaganza. Those will hardly take that View who recall how the men of Connecticut, under a monarch whose councillors thought democracy the one evil from which all others arise, exchanged a worthless quitclaim based on a non-existent grant for a char ter of utter democracy, with another colony thrown in for good measure; how, having beyond expectation led his mar tinet successor to drop the suit for vacating it, they balked the king's agent from canceling it, and thus, leaving the Whole business hanging in air, waited firmly intrenched till. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
