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 | | Though the Pequots were the first of the New England tribes to sense the genocidal intentions of the English and the implications of their different style of battle [involving killing of large numbers of non-combatants], the fury of the attack on their fort still was demoralizing. |
 | | The Fundamental Orders, as well as later laws, make a sharp distinction between one who voted in the town and one who voted for colony officers, that is, between an "admitted inhabitant" and a "freeman," though they are none too clear as to the precise qualifications of each. |
 | | New Haven was suspected, and justly, by the new monarch, of having harbored the "regicides," and not only failed to obtain a charter, but found its territory included in the Connecticut Charter of 1662. |
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