Act for Establishing the House of Assembly and the Laws to Be Made Therein
Memorandum That at the first meeting of the Assembly on the 25th day of the February 1638 was Enacted and ordeined one Act as followeth An Act For the Establishing the house of Assembly and the Laws to...
View ArticleCharter of Providence
Whereas, by virtue of a free and absolute charter of civill incorporation, granted to the free inhabitants of the colonie of Providence, by the Right Honorable Robert, Earl of Warwick, Governor in...
View ArticlePreface to the General Laws and Liberties of Connecticut Colony Revised and...
To our Beloved Brethren and Neighbours, the Inhabitants of the Colony of Connecticut, The GENERAL COVRT of that Colony with Grace and Peace in our Lord Jesus. The Serious Consideration of the Necessity...
View ArticleGeneral Assembly of Rhode Island Is Divided into Two Houses
The Assembly having taken notice of the motion from the townes of Portsmouth and of Warwick, desiring the Assembly would order that the deputyes may sitt apart from the magistrates as a House by...
View ArticleActs and Orders of 1647
Acts and Orders Made and agreed upon at the Generall Court of Election, held at Portsmouth, in Rhode Island, the 19, 20, 21 of May, Anno. 1647, for the Colonie and province of Providence. Mr. John...
View ArticleWarwick Agreement
KNOW ALL MEN, Colonies, Peoples, and Nations, unto whom the same hereof shall come; that wee, the chiefe Sachems, Princes or Governours of the Nanhigansets (in the part of America, now called...
View ArticleOrganization of the Government of Rhode Island
The Generall Court of Election began and held at Portsmouth, from the 16th of March, to the 19th of the same mon., 1641. I. It was ordered and agreed, before the Election, that in Ingagement by oath...
View ArticlePlantation Agreement at Providence
Report of Arbitrators at Providence, containing proposals for a form of government Providence the 27th of the 5th mo. in the yeare (so called) 1640 Wee, Robert Coles, Chad Browne, William Harris, and...
View ArticlePlantation Covenant at Quinnipiack
We the assembly of free planters do solemnly covenant] thatt as [in] matters thatt Concerne the gathering and ordering of a Chur. so Likewise in all publique offices wch concerne Cuill orders as Choyce...
View ArticleArticles, Laws, and Orders, Divine, Politic, and Martial for the Colony in...
Articles, Lawes, and Orders, Divine, Politique, and Martiall for the Colony in Virginea: first established by Sir Thomas Gates Knight, Lieutenant Generall, the 24th of May 1610. exemplified and...
View ArticleOf the Original Contract
When we consider how nearly equal all men are in their bodily force, and even in their mental powers and faculties, till cultivated by education, we must necessarily allow that nothing but their own...
View ArticleNewport Agreement
Pocasset. On the 28th of the 2d [month], 1639It is agreed. By vs whose hands are underwritten, to propagate a Plantation in the midst of the Island or elsewhere; And doe engage ourselves to bear equall...
View ArticleV. To General Sir William Howe
TO argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to...
View ArticleA Thought Upon the Past, Present, and Future State of North America
* America is a subject which daily becomes more and more interesting:-I shall therefore fill these Pages with a Word upon its Past, Present and Future State. First of its Past State: Time has cast a...
View ArticleAn Election Sermon
I Cor. XII. 25. That there should be no Schism in the Body, but that the Members should have the same Care one for another The natural Body consists of various Members, connected and subservient one...
View ArticleMassachusetts Government Act
WHEREAS by letters patent under the great seal of England, made in the third year of the reign of their late majesties King William and Queen Mary, for uniting, erecting, and incorporating, the...
View ArticleSermons
I. CORRINTH. Chap. VII. Ver. 21. Art thou called being a servant? Care not for it; but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather. At first glance, it is certain, this text refers to a state of...
View ArticleLetter from an Indentured Servant to his Parents
LOVING AND KIND FATHER AND MOTHER: My most humble duty remembered to you, hoping in god of your good health, as I myself am at the making hereof. This is to let you understand that I you child am in a...
View ArticleCharter of Privileges
Charter of Privileges which Gustavus Adolphus Has Graciously Given by Letters Patent to the Newly Established Swedish South Company; June 14, 1626 We, Gustavus Adolphus, by the grace of God, King of...
View ArticleCommission to Sir Ferdinando Gorges as Governor of New England by Charles
Manifesting our royal pleasure for the establishing a general government in our territories of New England for prevention of those evils that otherwise might ensue for default thereof, forasmuch as we...
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