...severally hereby enter into a firm and perpetual league of friendship and amity, for offense and defense, mutual advice and succor upon all just occasions,...Gospel, and for their own mutual safety and welfare. 3. It is further agreed, that the plantations which at present are, or hereafter shall be, settled...

...agreement were finally settled, and a CONFEDERATION OF THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES formed. This was a " perpetual league of friendship and amity, for offence...occasions, both for preserving and propagating the truths and liberties of the gospel, and for their own mutual safety and welfare." Though the language...

...the four Colonies and their dependencies, under the name of " The United Colonies of New England" in "a firm and perpetual league of friendship and amity...Gospel, and for their own mutual safety and welfare." The third provided, that, for purposes of internal administration, each Colony should retain its independence,...

...and perpetuall league of friendship and amity, for offence and defence, mutuall advice and succour, upon all just occasions, both for preserving and propagating...truth, and liberties of the Gospel, and for their own mutuall safety, and welltare. It is further agreed, That the Plantations which at present are, n'....

...four Colonies and their dependencies, under the name of " The United Colonies of New England" in " a firm and perpetual league of friendship and amity...Gospel, and for their own mutual safety and welfare." The third provided, that, for purposes of internal administration, each Colony should retain its independence,...

...Haven, entered into "» firm and perpetual league of friendship and amity, for offense and defense, mutual advice, and succor upon all just occasions,...Gospel, and for their own mutual safety and welfare." "For the managing and concluding of all affairs, proper to and concerning the whole confederation,"...

...of their twelve articles of confederation, these four Puritan colonies bind themselves together in a " firm and perpetual league of friendship and amity...Gospel, and for their own mutual safety and welfare." (I. 630.) By the sixth article provision was made for the appointment of a board to manage the business...

...of their twelve articles of confederation, these four Puritan colonies bind themselves together in a " firm and perpetual league of friendship and amity...Gospel, and for their own mutual safety and welfare." (I. 630.) By the sixth article provision was made for the appointment of a board to manage the business...

...said United Colonies, for themselves and their posterities, do jointly and severally hereby enter into a firm and perpetual league of friendship and amity,...mutual advice and succor upon all just occasions, for their mutual safetx md general welfare." Third. "Each colony retains its distinct and separate...

...firm and perpetual league of friendship, both offensive and defensive, promising each other mutual aid and succor, upon all just occasions, both for preserving and propagating the gospel, and for their own mutual safety and benefit; that each colony reserved to itself the exclusive...