140 CONNECTICUT’S INFLUENCE 
At length, in the summer of 1633, he decided to go to 
New England and sailed in the good ship Gréffin. 
In the same ship came Haynes and Stone, and upon 
their arrival in Massachusetts Bay all three established 
themselves at the New Town, which was soon to be 
called Cambridge. In the preceding year a congrega- 
tion from Braintree in Essex had come over to Mas- 
sachusetts and begun to settle near Mount Wollaston, 
where they left the name of Braintree on the map; but 
presently they removed to the New Town, where their 
accession raised the population to something like five 
hundred souls. Hooker, upon his arrival, was chosen 
pastor and Stone was chosen teacher of the New 
Town church. 
During the ensuing year expressions of dissent from 
the prevailing policy began to be heard more distinctly 
than before in the New Town. Among the questions 
which then agitated the community was one which 
concerned the form which legislation should take. 
Many of the people expressed a wish that a code of 
laws might be drawn up, inasmuch as they naturally 
wished to know what was to be expected of law-abid- 
ing citizens; but the general disposition of the min- 
isters was to withstand such requests and to keep things 
undecided until a body of law should grow up through 
the decisions of courts in which the ministers them- 
selves played a leading part. The controversy over 
this question was kept up until 1647, when the popular 
party, if we may so call it, carried the day, and caused 
a code of lawto be framed. This code, of which 
Nathaniel Ward was the draughtsman, was known as 
the Body of Liberties. In all this prolonged discus- 
sion the representative assembly was more or less 
