History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Volume 1D. Appleton, 1859 |
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History of the State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations, Volume 1 Samuel Greene Arnold Visualização integral - 1894 |
History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Volume 1 Samuel Greene Arnold Visualização integral - 1859 |
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adopted afterwards agent Andros Antinomian appears appointed April Aquedneck Assembly Assistants Atherton authority Bellemont Benedict Arnold Board of Trade Boston Canonicus Capt cause CHAP charter chosen church civil claim Coddington commission commissioners committee conduct Connecticut council Court of Trials deputy governor dispute Easton election English freemen Gorton granted held hundred Hutchinson Indians inhabitants John Clarke John Coggeshall John Cranston John Greene July June jurisdiction Kings Province land letter liberty magistrates March Massachusetts Miantinomi Narraganset Newport officers party patent Pawcatuck river Pawtuxet Pequots persons petition plantation Plymouth Portsmouth pounds present proceedings Providence purchase Puritans Quakers received records refused reply Rhode Island river Roger Williams royal sachem Samuel Gorton sent Sept session settled settlement shillings soon spirit tion town meeting tribes United Colonies vote Warwick Warwick records Westerly Wickford Winthrop
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Página 254 - There goes many a ship to sea, with many hundred souls in one ship, whose weal and woe is common, and is a true picture of a commonwealth, or a human combination or society. It hath fallen out sometimes, that both papists and protestants, Jews and Turks, may be embarked in one ship; upon which supposal I affirm, that all the liberty of conscience, that ever I pleaded for, turns upon these two hinges— that none of the papists, protestants, Jews, or Turks, be forced to come to the ship's prayers...
Página 12 - Faith, etc., having undertaken for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our King and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia, do, by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God, and of one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic...
Página 12 - Covenant and Combine ourselves together into a Civil Body Politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions and Offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Página 17 - To the end the body of the commons may be preserved of honest and good men, it was ordered and agreed, that, for the time to come, no man shall be admitted to the freedom of this body politic, but such as are members of some of the churches within the limits of the same.
Página 12 - In the name of God, Amen. We whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread sovereign lord, King James, by the grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, king, defender of the faith, etc.
Página 293 - ... the form of government established in Providence Plantations is democratical; that is to say, a government held by the free and voluntary consent of all. or the greater part of the free inhabitants.
Página 410 - English ; you much Child, no understand matters of War ; let your brother, or your chief come, him I will Answer...
Página 124 - Politick and as he shall help, will submit our persons, lives and estates unto our Lord Jesus Christ, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords and to all those perfect and most absolute laws of his given us in his holy word of truth, to be guided and judged thereby.
Página 137 - It is ordered that none shall be received as inhabitants or freemen, to build or plant upon the Island, but such as shall be received in by the consent of the body, and do submit to the government that is or shall be established according to the word of God.
Página 210 - These are the laws that concern all men, and these are the penalties for the transgression thereof, which, by common consent, are ratified and established throughout the whole colony ; and, otherwise than thus what is herein forbidden, all men may walk as their consciences persuade them, every one in the name of his God ; and let the saints of the Most High walk in this colony without molestation, in the name of Jehovah their God, forever and ever.