...free of the Company and Society hereafter mentioned, shall ... be ... one body corporate and politique in fact and name, by the name of the Governor and Company of the Mattachusetts Bay in Newe England . . . And wee doe hereby . . . graunte, That . . . there shalbe one...

...should from time to time and forever thereafter, be one Body Corporate and Politicke, in fact and in Name, by the Name of the Governor and Company of the English Colony of Connecticut, in New England, in America, with certain powers, Privileges and Authorities, and therein...

...present Charter. In 1663, July 8, Charles II. granted an ample Charter, whereby the Province was made " a body corporate and politic, in fact and name, by...the Governor and Company of the English Colony of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations in New-England in America." This Charter we enjoy to this day,...

...processes at law, wherever the name and authority of the king had been employed, should be substituted " The Governor and Company of the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations." The courts were no longer to be the king's courts, nor were written instruments of any kind to bear...

...legislature simply removed the name of the king in all official documents and replaced it with "The Governour and Company of the English colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations." The Charter of 1663 was otherwise still valid. New Hampshire had begun the process of forming a new...

...obtained in February, 1701, from the General Assembly of Rhode Island, for " The College or University in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in New England in America." The chief provisions of this charter, Mr. Guild states, were : " The exclusion of all religious tests...

...159, 207-22, 241-42; and "The Anglo-American Seaman as Collective Worker," 259, 267. 24. Acts and Laws of the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in New England, in America (Newport: Samuel Hall, 1767), 197. 25. Town council meeting of 29 Sept. 1781, Providence Town Council...

...Majesty's Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New England. Boston: S. Kneeland, 1759. Acts and Laws of the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in New England in America. Newport, RI: Samuel Hall, 1767. Acts and Laws . . . from Anno 1745, to Anno 1752. Newport, RI: J. Franklin,...

...By the Honourable Joseph Wanton Esquire, Governor, CaptainGeneral and Commander-in-Chief of and over the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, in New England, in America. A PROCLAMATION. Whereas, on Tuesday the 9* inst. in the night a number of people, unknown, boarded...

...official action to stop invoking royal sovereignty. Instead, the government would act by the "authority of the Governor and Company . . . of the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations."26 In other words, by authority of the citizens, but in the old mode — not as so many...