The 1639 Fundamental Agreement of the New Haven Colony reported that John Davenport, a Puritan clergyman and co-founder of the colony, declared to all the free planters forming the colony that , , and described the kind of people who might best be trusted with matters of government, and the people at the meeting assented without opposition.The Fundamental Agreement or Original Constitution of the Colony of New Haven, June 4, 1639, in Philip B. Kurland and Ralph Lerner, editors, The Founders' Constitution (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987), volume 5, pages 45–46.
