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excellent English, as well as law, education. For a short time after he
arrived and settled at Hartford, being an unmarried man of about the age
of twenty-five, he was on account of his superior education employed as an
instructor in that place, and was in part paid for his services out of the treas-
ury of that town. His superior law-education soon became known, and in
1662 he was appointed by the Assembly of Connecticut as a prosecutor for
the colony in a particularly important case, and, doubtless from the abihty
with which he conducted this prosecution, he was in 1664 appointed the
Attorney-General for the colony. Such was the confidence placed in him
that he was much employed, also, in the civil affairs of the colony. From
1675 to 1690, with the exception of the time of the usurpation of Sir
Edmund Andross, he was annually one of the Representatives of Hartford
in the Colonial Assembly. In 1676 he was chosen Treasurer of the
colony, was often appointed a Commissioner of Connecticut to the meet-
ings of the United Colonies of New England, and in 1690 was elected a
member of the Council, and so continued until his death. In addition to
the above general public employments, in 1683, on the arrival of Duncan
as Governor of New York, he with Nathan Gould and John Allen was
sent to New York to congratulate the new Governor on his arrival, and
and by them
with him to settle the boundaries between the two colonies ;
the principles in relation to these boundaries were adjusted ;
in 1693,
when Fletcher
and
the New York Governor was commissioned to command
the militia of Connecticut, Gov. Winthrop was sent to England to adjust
this business with the King ;
and
William Pitkin, at the same time, was
sent to New York to make terms with Fletcher in regard to this subject,
till the royal pleasure should be known.
" He was indefatigable in his private as well as in his public business.
He was no doubt one of the most able lawyers in the colony at that period.
And the records of the Courts, particularly the High Courts, show that no
one was more generally employed in cases of importance, the records of
the High Court then giving us, at large, the written pleas of the lawyers in
the cases before it.
"The loss which the colony sustained in his death . . . was
long
felt, as appears by a funeral sermon preached by the Rev'^ Eliphalet Adams
at the death of Governor Saltonstall in 1724. In this sermon the preacher
said ' In this colony particularly the Lord's hand hath been heavy upon us