<Tr> <Th> #</Th> <Th> Governor </Th> <Th> Took office </Th> <Th> Left office </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> John Winthrop the Younger </Td> <Td> 1635 </Td> <Td> 1639 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> George Fenwick </Td> <Td> 1639 </Td> <Td> 1644 </Td> </Tr> <P> The New Haven Colony was established by the Puritan colonist Theophilus Eaton, who was of the opinion that the policies of the Massachusetts Bay Colony were too lax in enforcing Puritan standards . After some exploration he purchased land from local Indians at the mouth of the Quinnipiac River in cx 1638 . The colony in 1639 established a government modeled on that drafted by the leaders of the Connecticut Colony, which called for annual elections of its governor . Eaton was elected governor until his death in 1658 . Following the restoration of King Charles II to the English throne in 1660, the colony became a subject of his ire when it harbored two fugitive regicides of Charles I, Edward Whalley and William Goffe . In 1662 Charles II issued a royal charter for the Connecticut Colony that merged the two colonies . The process of merger was not completed until 1665 . The colony's last governor, William Leete, also later served as governor of Connecticut . </P>

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