[130] _Rhode Island Col. Records_, iii. 175–197. Chalmers, _Political Annals_, 278. [131] Whitmore, I. xxvii. _Cambridge Almanac_, 1687. [132] Whitmore, I. xxvii. Goldwin Smith, in his recent work on _The United States_, seems to suppose that this occurred in New Hampshire. [133] _Conn. Col. Records_ (1678–89), 376–378. [134] _Conn. Col. Records_ (1678–89), 389. [135] Chalmers, _Political Annals_, 297, 298. _General History of Connecticut_, by a Gentleman of the Province (Rev. S. Peters, D. D.), London, 1781. Peters’s account is as follows: “They resigned it (the charter) in _propria forma_, into the hands of Sir Edmund Andros at Hertford, in October, 1687, and were annexed to the Mass. Bay colony, in preference to New York, according to royal promise and their own petition. But the very night of the surrender of it, Samuel Wadsworth of Hertford, with the assistance of a mob, violently broke into the apartments of Sir Edmund, regained, carried off and hid the charter in the hollow of an elm, and in 1689, news arriving of an insurrection and overthrow of Andros at Boston, Robert Treat, who had been elected in 1687, was declared by the mob still to be Governor of Connecticut. He daringly summoned his old Assembly, who being convened, voted the charter to be valid in law, and that it could not be vacated by any power, without the consent of the General Assembly. They then voted, that Samuel Wadsworth should bring forth the charter; which he did in a solemn procession, attended by the High Sheriff, and delivered it to the Governor. The General Assembly voted their thanks to Wadsworth, and twenty shillings as a reward for stealing and hiding their charter in an elm.” [136] _Conn. Col. Rec._ (1678–89), 248. [137] Bulkeley, Gershom, _Will and Doom_, in _Conn. Col. Rec._ (1678–89), 390, 391. [138] _Conn. Col. Rec._ (1678–89), 393 _note_, 404 _note_. [139] Trumbull, _History of Connecticut_, i. 371–375. [140] For Andros’s own account of the transaction, see _N. Y. Col. Doc._, iii. 722–726. _Andros Tracts_, iii. 20, 21. _R. I. Col. Rec._, iii. 281. [141] It is interesting to notice in this regard, that the chief complaint Increase Mather made against Andros, in his interview with James II., was that he did not sufficiently observe the king’s Declaration of Indulgence. Mather, Cotton, D. D., _Life of Increase Mather_, p. 41, London 1725. _Parentator_, pp. 109–116 (reprinted in part in _Andros Tracts_, iii. 121–187). _Cf._ Randolph’s account in _N. Y. Col. Doc._, iii. 578; also, Chalmers, _Pol. Annals_, 426. [142] Whitmore. _Andros Tracts_, i. 1–10. Hutchinson, i. 374–377. _N. Y. Col. Doc._, iii. 722, 726. Palfrey, _History of New England_, iii. ch. xiv., xv. That the revolution was carefully prepared and planned, see Mather, Samuel, _Life of Cotton Mather_, p. 42, and _N. Y. Col. Doc._, iii. 587, 588 (Deposition of Philip French), New York, 1689.