Cambridge Agreement on a Town Council
At A Gennerall Meeting of the whole Towne Itt was Agreed uppon by a Joynt Consent that 7 menn should be Chossen to doe the whole bussines of the Towne and soe to Continew untell the ffirst Monday in...
View ArticleMassachusetts Agreement on the Legislature
Att a General Courte, holden at Boston, May 14th, 1634 [ ] it is agreed, that none but the Generall Court hath power to chuse and amitt freemen. That none but the Generall Court hath power to make...
View ArticleThe Oath of a Freeman
Att a Genrall Courte, holden at Boston. It was agreed & ordered, that the former oath of ffreemen shalbe revoked, soe farr as it is dissonant from the oath of ffreemen herevnder written, & that...
View ArticleSalem Oath for Residents
At A Court holden att Boston, April Ith, 1634. It was further ordered, that euy man of or above the age of twenty yeares, whoe hath bene or shall herefter be resident within this juridiccon by the...
View ArticleWatertown Agreement on Civil Officers
Agreed by the consent of the Freemen, that there shalbe Chosen three person to be [ ] the ordering of the civill affaires in the Towne One of them to serve as Towne Clerk, and shall keep the Records...
View ArticlePlymouth Agreement
We, the associates of New-Plymouth Coming hither as freeborn subjects of the State of England endowed with all and singular the privileges belonging to such being assembled; does ordaine Constitute and...
View ArticlePlan of Union
A briefe and plaine scheam How the English Colonies in the North parts of America Viz: Boston, Connecticut, Road Island, New York, New Jerseys, Pensilvania, Maryland, Virginia and Carolina may be made...
View ArticleCapitall Lawes of Connecticut
Yf any man after legall conviction, shall have or worship any other God but the Lord God, he shall be put to death. Deu 13; 6, and 17. 2 Ex. 22; 20. Yf any man or woman be a Witch, (that is) hath...
View ArticleThe Watertown Covenant
We whose Names are hereto subscribed, having through God’s Mercy escaped out of Pollutions of the World, and been taken into the Society of his People, with all Thankfulness do hereby both with Heart...
View ArticleThe New England Confederation
ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION between the plantations under the government of the Massachusetts, the plantations under the government of New Plymouth, the plantations under the government of Connecticut,...
View ArticleThe Enlarged Salem Covenant
Gather my Saints together Unto me that have made a Covenant With me by sacrifyce. PSA 50:5: Wee whose names are here under written, members of the present Church of Christ in Salem, having found by...
View ArticlePilgrim Code of Law
Whereas, at his Majesty's court held the fourth and fifth of October in the twelfth year of the reign of our sovereign lord Charles, by the grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland,...
View ArticleAct to Ascertain the Manner and Form of Electing Members to Represent the...
Whereas the choosing members of the Commons House of Assembly for this province by parishes or precincts has been found by experience to be the most just and least expensive method that can be devised,...
View ArticleThe Massachusetts Body of Liberties
Source: The complete version can be found in W. H. Whitemore, The Colonial Laws of Massachusetts, 1889 (33–46). See also The Essential Bill of Rights, edited by Gordon Lloyd and Margie Lloyd, (Lanham,...
View ArticleAct to Ascertain the Manner and Form of Electing Members to Represent the...
Whereas the manner and form of choosing members of the Commons House of Assembly to represent the inhabitants of this province and the qualifications of electors and those elected members of the...
View ArticleThe Combination of the Inhabitants upon the Piscataqua River for Government
Whereas sundry Mischiefs and Inconveniences have befallen us, and more and greater may, in regard of want of Civill Government, his gracious Majesty haveing settled no order for us, to our knowledge,...
View ArticleDedham Covenant
One: We whose names are here unto subscribed do, in the fear and reverence of our Almighty God, mutually and severally promise amongst ourselves and each other to profess and practice one truth...
View ArticleAct Relating to the Biennial and Other Assemblies and Regulating Elections...
Whereas his Excellency the Palatine and the rest of the true and absolute lords proprietors of Carolina, having duly considered the privileges and immunities wherewith kingdom of Great Britain is...
View ArticleMassachusetts Bicameral Ordinance
Forasmuch as, after long experience, wee find divers inconveniences in the manner of our proceeding in Courts by magistrates & deputies siting together, & accounting it wisdome to follow the...
View ArticleThe Government of Guildford
A church was here gathered at Guilford consisting of these 7 persons:- Mr. Henry Whitfield, Mr. John Higginson, Mr. Samuel Desborow, Mr. William Leete, Mr. Jacob Sheaffe, John Mepham and John Hoadley....
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