ix, 166 pp. 8vo. A biography of Roger Ludlow, the early American settler and husband of Mary Endecott (sister of John Endecott, governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony). Ludlow heavily influenced the development of law in the American colonies. "As an accomplished lawyer, magistrate, and colony official, Ludlow is credited with putting Connecticut's first instrument of government, the Fundamental Orders of 1639, into final form... At the request of the colony government, Ludlow also compiled Connecticut's earliest extant law code. Officially adopted in 1650, Ludlow's Code, or the Code of 1650, drew heavily on Massachusetts law, especially the Laws and Liberties of 1648 and, to a lesser extent, the Body of Liberties of 1641... He was one of Connecticut's three delegates to the Cambridge Synod of 1637, which dealt with Anne Hutchinson and her Antinomianism. As one of the colony's representatives in 1643 he also helped negotiate the formation among Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Haven, and New Plymouth of the first intercolonial confederation, the United Colonies of New England." (Jodziewicz, American National Biography)
