story are, if known, not mentioned by any writers of the time.[135] The records of the colony contain simply the formal but expressive entry: “His Excellency, S^r Edmund Andross, Kn^t., Capt. General & Gov^r of his Ma^{ties} Territorie and Dominion in New England, by order from his Ma^{tie} James the second, King of England, Scotland, France & Ireland, the 31 of October, 1687, took into his hands the government of this colony of Conecticott, it being by his Ma^{tie} annexed to Massachusets & other colonys under his Excelencies Goverment. FINIS.”[136] Bulkeley, in the “_Will and Doom_,” relates that Andros was met at Hartford by the trained bands of divers towns who united to pay him their respects. “Being arrived at Hartford,” he continues, “he is greeted and caressed by the Gov^r and assistants, and some say, though I will not confidently assert it, that the Gov^r and one of his assistants did declare to him the vote of the Gen^l Court for their submission to him. However, after some treaty between his Excellency and them that evening, he was, the next morning, waited on and conducted by the Gov^r, Deputy Gov^r, Assistants and Deputies, to the Court Chamber, and by the Gov^r himself directed to the Gov^{r’s} seat, and being there seated (the late Gov^r, Assistants and Deputys being present & the Chamber thronged as full of people as it was capable of), His Excellency declared that his Majesty had, _according to their desire_, given him a commission to come and take on him the government of Connecticut, and caused his commission to be publicly read. That being done, his Excellency showed that it was his Majesty’s pleasure to make the late Gov^r and Captain John Allyn members of his council, and called upon them to take their oaths, which they did forthwith, and all this in that public and great assembly, _nemine contradicente_, and only one man said that they first desired that they might continue as they were.” “After this his Excellency proceeded to erect courts of Judicature, and constituted the said John Allyn, Esq. & Judge of the inferiour Court of Common Pleas for the county of Hartford, and all others who before had been assistants, & dwelling in the same County, he now made Justices of the Peace for the said County.