The application was more than granted; for to Connecticut (1662) was given not only a charter and an immense tract of land, but also the colony of New Haven.[1] The land grant was comprised in a strip that stretched across the continent from Rhode Island to the Pacific and was as wide as the present state.[2] In 1663 Rhode Island was given a new charter.
[Footnote 1: In 1660, after the restoration of Charles II., Edward Whalley and William Goffe (the regicides, "king-killers," as they were called), two of the judges who had condemned Charles I.to be beheaded, fled to New Haven and were protected by the people.

This act had much to do with the annexation of New Haven to Connecticut.] [Footnote 2: Read Fiske's _Beginnings of New England_, pp.

192-196.

Many of the New Haven colonists were disgusted by the union of their colony with Connecticut, and in June, 1667, migrated to New Jersey, where they founded "New-Ark" or Newark.] In 1684 the King's judges declared the Massachusetts charter void, and James II.

was about to make New England one royal colony, when the English people drove him from the throne.