 He sent a warrant for John Scott's and he was ultimately found and brought to trial in Hartford for "sundry heinous crimes".This was protested by John Scott's Long Island followers and also by John Davenport, a leader of the New Haven Colony, who noted that Winthrop was meddling in towns under New Haven's jurisdiction.Though sent to prison, John Scott would escape by July 1664, supposedly using rope smuggled into his cell by his visiting wife.