Genealogy Story - Family Connections - a followup to "Finding Bonnie"

I uncovered a fascinating piece of history this morning.  My cousin Rob has posted some information about his great-grandfather, Dexter L Bishop.  Included in his obituary was a note that his mother, Nancy Leete, was descended from one of the early governors of the Colony of Connecticut.  As I investigated that I found a rather interest connection that I had never known (and in fact no one may have noticed before.  Here is the email I sent to my cousin:

When your parents married, it obviously connected the family lines on their respective sides.  But did you know that there was another type of connection nearly 250 years before their marriage?

One of the interesting things about the Bishop family is that they quite often used family names as middle names.  Your mother's middle name was Leete, a middle name that she inherited from your great-grandfather Dexter Leete Bishop (the subject of your recent facebook posting).  Dexter, in turn, had gotten it from his mother, Nancy Leete.  

The Leete family were fairly well connected into Connecticut history.  The original Leete in the Americas, William Leete (1612-1683), came from England to New Haven in 1639.  He was a lawyer and was at various times the Governor of the New Haven Colony, and later of the Connecticut Colony (after the merger of all the colonies into Connecticut).  In fact, he was the only person to ever hold both positions.  William had a large family, one, John, was your great*8 grandfather, but another, Andrew (your great*9 uncle) followed in William's footsteps and was also prominent in Connecticut politics.

Meanwhile, our mutual great*8 grandfather, John Pierpont, came to the Boston area in 1640 (a year after the Leete family came to New Haven). Note that both the Leete and Pierpont families were Puritans.  John's son, James (1654-1714), was educated at Harvard as a preacher, and came to New Haven in 1684 as the pastor of the congregational church on the green (a story we are all familiar with). Besides being our great*7 grandfather, one of the more important things that he did while in New Haven was helped found Yale University (something else we are all familiar with).  The charter was granted in 1701.

But here is the connection I alluded to....

Andrew Leete (your great*9 uncle) was a member of the General Court of Connecticut that granted the charter to Yale, which was founded by our great*7 grandfather. 

I also suspect that these families knew each other, with one being a prominent minister in New Haven and the other being from the most prominent family in Guilford (where all the Leete family lived for many generations).

Here is a reference to Andrew being on that court - http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~showe/LeeteFamily.html

Here is the text of the charter and act from that court that includes James Pierpont (see page 4) - http://www.yale.edu/about/University-Charter.pdf

How's that for today's history lesson!