" These and other speeches passed before dinner. After dinner, the governor told them, that he had heard, that the people intended, at the next general court, to desire, that the assistants might be chosen anew every year, and that the governor might be chosen by the whole court, and not by the assistants only. "

― John Winthrop , Winthrop's Journal, History of New England, 1630-1649: Volume 1