George Fenwick, proprietor of part of Connecticut, died in 1657. He came to America in 1636 to take charge of the plantation of Saybrook, so called after Lords Say and Brook, who with others had in 1632 procured a patent for the territory from Robert, 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 parliamentary army, and was appointed one of the judges of Charles I.