The New Haven Colony.%--Just at the time these things were happening in the Connecticut valley, the beginnings of another little republic were made on the shores of Long Island Sound.

One day in the summer of 1637 there came to Boston a company of rich London merchants under the lead of an eloquent preacher named John Davenport.

The people of Boston would gladly have kept the newcomers at that town.

But the strangers desired to found a state of their own, and so, after spending some months in seeking for a spot with a good harbor, they left Boston in 1638 and founded New Haven.

In 1639 Milford and Guilford were laid out, and Stamford was started in 1640.