Excerpt from Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society, Vol. 40 This Society published in 1892 and 1896, as volumes IV and V of its series of Collections, the correspondence and documents covering the period of Joseph Talcott's governorship of Connecticut, from his being first chosen in October 1724, to his death in office in October 1741. This volume, with the others of the Law Papers which are to follow it, contains the correspondence and documents covering the period of the governorship of Jonathan Law, who upon the death of Governor Talcott succeeded to the office of Governor of the colony of Connecticut, and who was continued in the office until his own death in November 1750. The originals of the greater part of the letters and documents here printed are in the archives of this Society; some are among the Connecticut State Archives preserved in the State Library; a number are among the Belknap and the Trumbull Papers preserved by the Massachusetts Historical Society, and a few are among the Chalmers Papers preserved in the New York Public Library (Lenox foundation). Such of the manuscripts as are in this Society's archives are, with a few exceptions, contained in the series of five folio volumes lettered "J. Law Papers." Some forty or more years ago these manuscripts were arranged in a roughly chronological order, and mounted upon stubs ready for binding. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.