This object became promin
This object became prominent during an incident in which candles were suddenly blown out, about sixty years after Samuel Wyllys was persuaded by local Indians to avoid removing this object.  Joseph Wadsworth located it for its most notable purpose, though it had previously been used as a signal for when to plant. Currently, the governor's desk and the chairs used for the speaker of the state house and president of the state senate are made from the (*) remains of this object, which was destroyed in an 1856 storm. It was used to resist Edmund Andros's attempts to dissolve existing colonial governments into the Dominion of New England. For 10 points, name this tree in which the royal document which authorized the founding of Connecticut was hidden.
This object became prominent during an incident in which candles were suddenly blown out, about sixty years after Samuel Wyllys was persuaded by local Indians to avoid removing this object.  
the Charter Oak