Story of the Judges' Cave: The Regicides

Carol W. Kimball

Judges' Cave
Oliver Cromwell
The Great Rebellion
King Charles I
King Charles II
Regicides in America
fugitives
Colonel Whalley
Colonel Goffe

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Scrapbook

8: Communication Artifact

Documentary Artifact

The Day

New London, CT

10/04/1990

Carol W. Kimball

Two fugitive judges, Colonel Edward Whalley and Colonel William Goffe, escape England and the wrath of King Charles II who searched for those who aided Oliver Cromwell in the Great Rebellion (those called Regicides) and were responsible for the death of his father King Charles I. Two Regicides, who were judges, Colonel Edward Whalley and Colonel William Goffe, fled to America and learning that Endicott was about to arrest them, fled to the independent colony of New Haven in 1661. They hid for a month in caves forever afterward called the Judges' Cave. According to tradition, they lived the rest of their lives hided away like prisoners by pro-Regicides. Whalley died in 1675 and Goffe in 1679. Eventually, their bodies were buried in New Haven in the Old Burying Ground at the rear of Center Church with rude stones with the carvings EW and WG to mark their graves.

King Charles I
King Charles II
Cromwell, Oliver
Whalley, Edward (Col.)
Goffe, William (Col.)
Endicott, John (Gov.)
Davenport, John (Rev.)
Leete, William (Gov.)
Sperry, William
Thomas, Micah
Russell, John

Judges' Cave
New Haven
Cromwell
King Charles
Great Rebellion
Regicides
Indian Messenger
fugitives