Say brook, Conn

was founded in 1635 by a party sent out by John Winthrop, and was given its name in 1639 by George Fenwick, who conveyed the settlement to the jurisdiction of Connecticut in 1644. It was named for Lords Saye and Brooke. Say brook Platform. May 13, 1708, at the suggestion of the Colonial Legislature of Connecticut, a synod of four lay delegates and twelve ministers met at Say brook to adopt some more energetic system of church government than then existed. They adopted the Confe ion of Faith of the Reforming Synod held at Boston in 1680 and provided for “one consociation or more”’ of churches in each county “ for mutual affording to each other such a istance as may be requisite, upon all occasions ecclesiastical,’ and that a general a ociation of church representatives should meet each year at election time. 200