the autumn of 1637, built a hut, and left a few men to try the winter climate. The main party arrived in the spring, and their minister preached his first sermon there under an oak tree on April 18th.

Two distinguished fugitives found refuge in New Haven early in the year 1661. They were Generals Goffe and Whalley who had been members of the court that condemned King Charles I of England to death. Now Charles II had come to the throne, and a price was set on the heads of these two "regicides." Officers were sent from Boston to arrest them, but found their errand blocked at New Haven by the most exasperating obstacles. Their documents were read aloud in public meetings instead of being treated as secret-service business, and when the Sabbath came the minister regaled them with a sermon from the text: "Hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth; let my outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler.'

Every precaution was taken to conceal the regicides. They moved from one house to another, they hid under a bridge over which the searchers passed, they were for a time in the woods, and for a time in an old mill. Then they went to the top of West Rock, a steep crag about two miles from the town, where a cave was prepared for them in a pile of rocks. There they continued for several months. After that they dwelt in Milford, in great seclusion, for three years. Finally, news of their being in that place got to the

king's officers, and Connecticut seemed no longer a safe retreat. So they went away, travelling only by night, to the frontier village of Hadley, in Massachusetts.

New Haven is the home of Yale University, one of the oldest, largest, and best-known of American educational institutions. The need of a college was felt in Connecticut almost from the first, but it was generally agreed that the resources of the whole of New England were barely enough to support Harvard. At length, however, in 1700, ten ministers met at Bran

ford and each laid on a table a contribution of books, saying, "I give these books for the founding of a college in this colony." The whole number was about forty volumes.

The next year the General Court voted the college a small grant of money, and Saybrook was chosen as the place where it was to be established. But because its first rector was the minister at Killingworth the library and students were housed there. The commencements, however, took place at Saybrook. The college had just one student for the first six months, and the total number of graduates in fifteen years was only fifty-five. For instruction the early pupils were largely dependent on the ten ministers who were

trustees.

After a while the rector died, and the library and some of the students were transferred to Saybrook. Other students went to Milford where the new rector lived. Finally, in 1716, the trustees voted to remove the college to New Haven. Meanwhile good friends in England had been contributing books and money to help it along. One of these benefactors was Elihu Yale, who was born at New Haven in 1648, but who, when ten years old, had been taken to England by his father, and had never returned. He became a wealthy merchant, and for a time was a government official in India. His gifts in money to the college amounted to £400, and the trustees gave the college his name.

The locating of the college in New Haven was the cause of much dissatisfaction, for several other towns thought they had a better claim to it. A portion of the students seceded, and for two years were taught at Wethersfield. Saybrook protested against the re

moval of the library. In the night, the wagons on which the books had been loaded ready to start in the morning were broken, and the horses that were to draw them were turned loose, and bridges on the New Haven turnpike were cut away. When the library at last reached its destination, many of the books were missing.

One of the most interesting of the colonial members of the faculty was Rev. Naphtali Daggett, who for a quarter of a century was the college preacher. On Monday, July 5, 1779, the townspeople had begun to celebrate the Declaration of Independence, when they were thrown into consternation by the news that a fleet of forty-eight vessels had dropped anchor at West Haven, and that three thousand men were marching against the town.

Hasty levies made ready to oppose the enemy, and the college preacher joined them. His comrades no sooner came within range of the British bullets than they took to their heels, but he stood his ground, and, though wounded, loaded and fired until a detachment charged and captured him. The officer in command inquired, not very gently, "What are you doing here, you old fool, firing on his Majesty's troops ?"

“Exercising the rights of war," he replied grimly. Here is what happened to him afterward in his own words: "Midst a thousand insults, my infernal driver hastened me along farther than my strength would ad

mit in the extreme heat of the day, weakened as I was by the loss of blood, which could not be less than a

A few of the three hundred and sixty-five Thimble Islands, between New Haven and Guilford

quart. When I failed in some degree through faintness he would strike me on the back with a heavy walking-staff, and kick me behind with his foot. At length, I arrived at the Green in New Haven and obtained leave of an officer to be carried into the Widow Lyman's and laid on a bed, where I lay the rest of the day and the succeeding night in such acute pain as I never felt before."

The town was given up to plunder, but the British retired after being in it only overnight.

At the outbreak of the Revolution Benedict Arnold was a New Haven druggist and bookseller with a shop