The Stuart Restoration was the re-instatement in May 1660 of the Stuart monarchy in England,Scotland,and Ireland. It replaced the Commonwealth of England,established in January 1649 after the execution of Charles I,with his son Charles II.
Edward Whalley was an English military leader during the English Civil War and was one of the regicides who signed the death warrant of King Charles I of England.
Major-General William Goffe,probably born between 1613 and 1618,died c. 1679/1680,was an English Parliamentarian soldier who served with the New Model Army during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. A religious radical nicknamed “Praying William”by contemporaries,he approved the Execution of Charles I in January 1649,and later escaped prosecution as a regicide by fleeing to New England.
Theophilus Eaton was a wealthy New England Puritan merchant,diplomat and financier,who took part in organizing and financing the Great Puritan Migration to America. He was a founder of Massachusetts Bay Colony,and a founder and eventual governor of New Haven Colony. He also cofounded Boston,Massachusetts,Greenwich,Connecticut and Eaton's Neck in New York.
The New Haven Colony was a small English colony in Connecticut Colony from 1638 to 1664,with outposts in New York,New Jersey,Pennsylvania,and Delaware.
John Dixwell,alias James Davids,was an English lawyer,republican politician and regicide. Born in Warwickshire,during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms he held various administrative positions in Kent on behalf of Parliament,and approved the Execution of Charles I in January 1649. Under the Commonwealth,he served as Governor of Dover Castle,and was a member of the English Council of State.
Edward Hopkins was an English colonist and politician and 2nd Governor of the Connecticut Colony. Active on both sides of the Atlantic,he was a founder of the New Haven and Connecticut colonies,serving seven one-year terms as Governor of Connecticut. He returned to England in the 1650s,where he was politically active in the administration of Oliver Cromwell as a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty and member of Parliament. He remained in England despite being elected Governor of Connecticut in 1655,and died in London in 1657.
James PierpontorPierrepont was a Congregationalist minister who is credited with the founding of Yale University in the United States.
The Angel of Hadley is the central character in a possibly apocryphal tale combining the execution of Charles I in England,King Philip's War and Hadley,Massachusetts. According to the tale Colonel William Goffe,who was wanted for his role in the regicide,was hiding in Hadley when it was attacked by Indians in 1675 or 1676. Goffe,by then an aging figure,is said to have come out of his hiding to lead the local residents in the successful defense of their community against the attack.
John Russell was a Puritan minister in Hadley,Massachusetts,during King Philip's War. As such,he is part of the Angel of Hadley legend.
William Hall Yale was a Minnesota lawyer and Republican politician who served as Senator and sixth Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota. He was made regent of the University of Minnesota in 1894 by Governor Nelson,and was a member of the Episcopal Church.
William Leete was Governor of the Colony of New Haven from 1661 to 1665 and Governor of the Colony of Connecticut from 1676 to 1683.
Danyell "Daniel" Gookin was a Munster colonist,settler of Virginia and Massachusetts,and a writer on the subject of American Indians.
The Restoration of the monarchy began in 1660 when the English,Scottish and Irish monarchies were all restored under Charles II after the republic that followed the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. The term Restoration may apply both to the actual event by which the monarchy was restored,and to the period immediately following the event.
The phrase "Goffe and Whalley" or "Whalley and Goffe" refers to two men who fled in 1660 to Massachusetts Bay Colony and ultimately New Haven after their involvement in the 1649 regicide of King Charles I of England:
David Yale was the Chancellor of Chester,England and a correspondent of Elizabeth Tudor's chief minister,Lord William Cecil of Burghley House. He was also the Vicar General of his in-law,Bishop George Lloyd of Chester. His son,merchant Thomas Yale,became the patriarch of the Yale family of America,and the grandfather of governor Elihu Yale,benefactor of Yale University.
Captain Theophilus Yale was a British military officer,magistrate,and one of the early settlers of Wallingford,Connecticut. His grandnephew,Dr. Lyman Hall,became one of the Founding Fathers of the United States,and a signatory of the Declaration of Independence. Yale was also a deputy of the Connecticut House of Representatives and Justice of the Peace for Wallingford.
Captain Thomas Yale was a British military officer,merchant and magistrate. He was a puritan who emigrated from London to the New England Colonies aboard the Hector in 1637,and cofounded,with his stepfather,Governor Theophilus Eaton,the colony of New Haven. He was also a deputy to the Connecticut General Assembly and fought in King Philip's War.
Captain Thomas Yale was a British American magistrate,politician and military officer. He was one of the founders of the town of Wallingford,Connecticut. He became Justice of the Peace,surveyor and moderator for Wallingford,and helped establish its first Congregational church in 1675. He was also elected,for numbers of years,as deputy to the Connecticut General Assembly.
