the Mohegans,[214] and getting a commission appointed to investigate he was made its president. He then proceeded in his own fashion. He omitted to warn Connecticut of the meeting of the court, judged the case peremptorily, and ordered the restitution of the lands. The colony exercised its right of appeal, and prolonging the investigation to 1743 got Dudley’s decision reversed.[215] Gov. Fitz-John Winthrop, of Connecticut, died in Boston while on a visit, November 27, 1707, and was commemorated by Cotton Mather in a funeral sermon, called in his pedantic manner _Winthropi justa_. The vacant chair was now taken by Gurdon Saltonstall, who did his generation great service and little harm. The policy of Connecticut soon felt his active nature.[216] Her frontier towns towards New York were guarded, and Massachusetts found she had an efficient ally in her warfare at the eastward. Connecticut, which was steadily rising above 20,000 in population in Saltonstall’s time,—though estimates vary,—was growing more rigorous in observance and creed in contrast to the strengthening of liberalism in Massachusetts. Saltonstall favored the Saybrook platform, which put the management of church affairs in a “consociation of ministers,”—a sort of presbytery. Though a general accord in religious views linked her people together, she harbored some strange sectaries, like the Rogerenes of New London, who were allied in some respects with the Seventh Day Baptists of Westerly, just over the Rhode Island line. [Illustration: GURDON SALTONSTALL. This follows the original picture at Yale College by an unknown artist. There is a photograph of it in Kingsley’s _Yale College_, i. 33. There is another engraving in Hollister’s _Connecticut_, ii. 584. There is an engraving by Doolittle noted in the _Catal. Cab. Mass. Hist. Soc._, p. 30.] [Illustration The annexed autograph is from a MS. in Harvard College library [5325.23], entitled: _A Memorial offered to the General Assembly of his Majesties Colony of Connecticut hold in Hartford, May y^e 10th, 1716, By Gurdon Saltonstall, Esq., one of the Trustees in Trust of the Mohegan Fields in the Township of New London, for the use of Cesar, Sachem of Mohegan & his Indians, upon the occasion of y^e sd Cesar’s Complaint to y^e sd Assembly of wrong done him and his Indians in and upon the sd Fields._]