Confirmation of the Grant from the Council for New England to Captain John Mason
Forasmuch as by a mutual agreement we whose names are subscribed patentees or adventurers and of the Council of New England are to join in the surrender to his Majesty of the great charter of that...
View ArticleDeclaration for Resignation of the Charter by the Council for New England
Forasmuch as we have found by a long experience that the faithful endeavors of some of us that have sought the advancement of the plantation of New England have not been without frequent and inevitable...
View ArticleGeneral Charter for Those who Discover Any New Passages, Havens, Countries,...
The States-General of the United Netherlands, to all those who shall see these presents or hear them read, greeting. Be it known, whereas we understand it would be honorable, serviceable, and...
View ArticleGrant of Exclusive Trade to New Netherland by the States-General of the...
The States-General of the United Netherlands, to all to whom these presents shall come, greeting. Whereas Gerrit Jacobz Witssen, ancient Burgomaster of the city Amsterdam, Jonas Witssen, Simon...
View ArticleGrant of His Interest in New Hampshire by Sir Ferdinando Gorges to Captain...
This indenture made the seventeenth day of September, Anno Domini 1635, and in the eleventh year of the reign of our sovereign lord Charles, by the grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France, and...
View ArticleProclamation Against the Disorderly Transporting His Majesty’s subjects to...
By The King's most excellent majesty being informed that great numbers of his subjects have been and are every year transported into those parts of America, which have been granted by patent to several...
View ArticleThe Articles of Confederation of the United Colonies of New England
The 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...
View ArticleConcord Town Meeting Resolution
At a meeting of the Inhabitents of the Town of Concord being free and twenty one years of age and upward, met by adjournment on the twenty first Day of October 1776 to take into Consideration a Resolve...
View ArticleCharter of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
CHARLES THE SECOND, by the grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c., to all to whome these presents shall come, greeting: Whereas wee have been...
View ArticleCharter of Connecticut
CHARLES the Second, by the Grace of GOD, KING of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting. Whereas by the several...
View ArticleThe Life and Apostolic Labors of the Venerable Father Junípero Serra
Seeing that for these reasons the third Mission could not be begun, our Venerable Father, with his disciple Fr. Juan Crespi,[1] devoted themselves to the conversion of the Indians of Monterey; but as...
View ArticleMayflower Compact
IN THE NAME of GOD, Amen. We, whose Names are under-written, the Loyal Subjects of our dread Soveraign Lord King James, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defendor of the...
View ArticleOn Liberty
I suppose something may be expected from me upon this charge that is befallen me, which moves me to speak now to you; yet I intend not to intermeddle in the proceedings of the court, or with any of the...
View ArticleThe English Bill of Rights
An Act for Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject, and Settling the Succession of the Crown Whereas the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, assembled at Westminster, lawfully, fully,...
View ArticleThe Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
Source: F. N. Thorpe, ed., The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and Other Organic Laws . . . , 7 vols. (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1909), 1:519–26, available online...
View ArticleAlbany Plan of Union
It is proposed that humble application be made for an act of Parliament of Great Britain, by virtue of which one general government may be formed in America, including all the said colonies, within and...
View ArticleA Model of Christian Charity
John Winthrop, “A Model of Christian Charity”, Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society (Boston, 1838), 3rd series 7:31-48). CHRISTIAN CHARITY. A Model hereof. GOD ALMIGHTY in his most holy...
View ArticleThe Body of Liberties of the Massachusetts Colony in New England
The free fruition of such liberties Immunities and privileges as humanity, civility, and Christianity call for as due to every man in his place and proportion without impeachment and infringement hath...
View ArticleCato’s Letters
The Right and Capacity of the People to judge of Government The World has, from Time to Time, been led into such a long Maze of Mistakes, by those who gained by deceiving, that whoever would instruct...
View ArticlePlan of Union
Worthington C. Ford, et al., eds., Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789, 34 vols. (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1904-37), 1:49-51. Joseph Galloway (1731–1803) was a...
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