ON THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION 139 
Watertown and Dorchester led the way in instituting 
town government by selectmen. 
In September, 1633, there arrived upon the scene 
several interesting men, three of whom call for 
special mention. These were John Haynes, Samuel 
Stone, and Thomas Hooker. Haynes was born in 
Copford Hall, Essex, but the date of his birth is un- 
known, and the same may be said of the details of his 
early life. He is now remembered as the first governor 
of Connecticut and as having served in that capacity 
every alternate year until his death. He has been 
described as a man “of large estate and larger affec- 
tions; of heavenly mind and spotless life, sagacious, 
accurate, and dear to the people by his benevolent 
virtues and disinterested conduct.” Samuel Stone 
was born in Hertford in 1602, and was graduated at 
Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 1627, being already 
known as a shrewd and tough controversialist, abound- 
ing in genial humour and sometimes sparkling with 
wit. Thomas Hooker was an older man, having 
been born in Markfield, Leicestershire, in 1586. He 
was graduated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and 
afterward became a fellow of that College. In 1626 
he was appointed assistant to a clergyman in Chelms- 
ford and preached there, but in 1630 was forbidden to 
preach by Archbishop Laud. For a while Hooker 
stayed in his home near Chelmsford and taught a school 
in Little Braddon, where he had for an assistant 
teacher John Eliot, afterward famous as the apostle to 
the Indians. This lasted but a few months. Things 
were made so disagreeable for Hooker that before the 
end of 1630 he made his way to Holland and stayed 
there until 1633, preaching in Rotterdam and Delft. 
