In April 1638, the Rev. John Davenport led a congregation of pious Puritans from Boston, a town they claimed had become 'corrupt', to settle in Quinuipac, which they renamed New Haven. Davenport brought with him some successful merchants, including David Yale, a learned gentleman whose descendant, Elihu Yale, was to found another historic college.
'The Law of Nature is God's Law.' (John Davenport).
On May 31, 1638, another dissenting, Thomas Hooker, arrived at Hartford on the Connecticut, with 100 followers, marking the occasion by preaching them a sermon stating that all authority, in state or religion, must rest in the people's consent. Thus, within New England, there was a continuing diaspora, often motivated by religious dissent and the urgent desire for greater freedom of thought and action.
In 1639 Hooker's Hartford joined with two other Puritan-dissenter townships, Windsor and Wethersfield, to form what they called the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut.
