New Haven Colony Charter (April 3, 1644) adopted the rules for governing the courts of the New Haven Colony, stating:
<The judicial laws of God, as they were delivered by Moses...[are to] be a rule to all the courts in this jurisdiction...> 1644NH001
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1644NH001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). New Haven Colony Charter, April 3, 1644. John Fiske, The Beginnings of New England (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1898), p. 136. Russ Walton, Biblical Principles of Importance to Godly Christians (NH: Plymouth Rock Foundation, 1984), p. 356. "Our Christian Heritage," Letter from Plymouth Rock (Marlborough, NH: The Plymouth Rock Foundation), p. 2.