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George Fenwick (1603-1657) He was the eldest son of George Fenwick, by Dorothy, daughter of John Forster, of Newham, England. He was a proprietor of part Saybrook Colony in colonial Connecticut. He came to America in 1636 to take charge of the plantation of Saybrook, so called after Puritan Lords Saye, or William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele and Lord Brooke or Robert Greville, 2nd Baron Brooke, who with others had in 1632 procured a patent for the territory from Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick. Returning to England, he came back again in 1639, and from that time, as one of the patentees and agent for the others, superintended and governed the settlement Saybrook till 1644, when he sold its jurisdiction and territory to the Connecticut Colony, as his associates had given up their contemplated removal to America. He afterward returned to England, where he became a colonel in the parlimentary army or New Model Army, and was appointed one of the judges of Charles I of England.