A Discourse Delivered at Providence, August 5, L836: In Commemoration of the First Settlement of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Being the Second Centennial Anniversary of the Settlement of ProvidenceB. Cranston, 1836 - 72 páginas |
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... Chief Sachems of Narragansett , for land and a peaceable settlement . The earliest record we have of his being here , is the journal of Governor Win- throp , under date of July 26 , old style , when mention is made of information ...
... Chief Sachems of Narragansett , for land and a peaceable settlement . The earliest record we have of his being here , is the journal of Governor Win- throp , under date of July 26 , old style , when mention is made of information ...
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... Chief Sachems to Roger Williams , is dated " at Narragansett , the 24th of the first month , commonly called March , the second year of the plantation , or the planting at Mo- shassuck , or Providence , " being , in fact , in the year ...
... Chief Sachems to Roger Williams , is dated " at Narragansett , the 24th of the first month , commonly called March , the second year of the plantation , or the planting at Mo- shassuck , or Providence , " being , in fact , in the year ...
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... chief and sole magistrate , by the title of Judge , which is thus recorded : " We that are freemen incorporate of this bodie politick , do elect and constitute William Coddington , Esq . a Judge amongst us , and do covenant to yield all ...
... chief and sole magistrate , by the title of Judge , which is thus recorded : " We that are freemen incorporate of this bodie politick , do elect and constitute William Coddington , Esq . a Judge amongst us , and do covenant to yield all ...
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... chief , and at first , the only magistrate in the colony , came over with Gov. Winthrop in 1630 , being then an assistant in the Massachusetts gov . ernment ; he continued to hold this office from that time until 1637 , when he became ...
... chief , and at first , the only magistrate in the colony , came over with Gov. Winthrop in 1630 , being then an assistant in the Massachusetts gov . ernment ; he continued to hold this office from that time until 1637 , when he became ...
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... Chief Mag . * Winthrop , vol . 2 , p . 62. In the proceedings of the judge and elders of the Rhode - Island colony on the 7th of February , 1638-9 , is the following re- cord : " Mr. Aspinwall being a suspected person for sedition ...
... Chief Mag . * Winthrop , vol . 2 , p . 62. In the proceedings of the judge and elders of the Rhode - Island colony on the 7th of February , 1638-9 , is the following re- cord : " Mr. Aspinwall being a suspected person for sedition ...
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admitted advice aforesaid Aquetneck Assembly Assistants authority banishment Benedict Arnold Boston Brown called Canonicus and Miantinomo Catholics Chad Brown charge Chief Sachems church of Salem civil things claimed Commissioners Connecticut Constitution Court deed disposed elected English favor freemen friends Governor granted gratuity honor Indians inhabitants of Providence island John Clarke John Coggeshall John Greene John Throckmorton jurisdiction king Knowles laws letter liams liberty of conscience Lord loving magistrates Massachusetts meadows ment ministers Moshassuck Narragansett Bay natives neighbors New-England Newport Nicholas Easton opinions Pawtucket Pawtuxet lands Pawtuxet river peace Pequod Plymouth Portsmouth present principle procuring Providence and Warwick Providence Plantations Pumham purchase ragansett received religious Rhode Richard Waterman Roger Wil Roger Williams Samuel Gorton Savage's Winthrop says Winthrop Seekonk settlement of Providence Sir Henry Vane thirty pounds Thomas Angell Thomas Olney tion town of Providence Uncas United Colonies unto William Coddington William Harris
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Página 11 - Sixthly, it is the will and command of God that (since the coming of his Son the Lord Jesus) a permission of the most paganish, Jewish, Turkish, or antichristian consciences and worships, be granted to all men in all nations and countries...
Página 33 - We whose names are underwritten do here solemnly in the presence of Jehovah, incorporate ourselves into a Bodie Politick, and as he shall help, will .submit our persons, lives and estates unto our Lord Jesus Christ, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, and to all those perfect and most absolute laws of his given us in his holy word of truth, to be guided and judged thereby.
Página 15 - I charge you before God, and his blessed angels, that you follow me no farther than you have seen me follow the Lord Jesus Christ. If God reveal any thing to you by any other instrument of his, be as ready to receive it, as ever you were to receive any truth by my ministry ; for I am verily persuaded, I am very confident, the Lord has more truth yet to break forth out of his holy word.
Página 67 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No ! Men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued, In forest, brake or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain, — These constitute a State ; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, • O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing...
Página 9 - So absolute (says he) was the authority of the crown, that the precious spark of liberty had been kindled, and was preserved, by the Puritans alone ; and it was to this sect that the English owe the whole freedom of their constitution.
Página 19 - He justified both these letters, and maintained all his opinions; and, being offered further conference or disputation, and a month's respite, he chose to dispute presently.
Página 27 - We whose names are hereunder, desirous to inhabit in the town of Providence, do promise to subject ourselves in active or passive obedience to all such orders or agreements as shall be made for public good of the body, in an orderly way, by the major assent of the present inhabitants, masters of families, incorporated together into a town fellowship, and such others whom they shall admit unto them, only in civil things.
Página 46 - In due Consideration of the said Premises, the said Robert Earl of Warwick, Governor in Chief, and Lord High Admiral of the said Plantations, and the greater Number of the said Commissioners, whose Names and Seals are...
Página 52 - Quakers (so called) which are now among us, we have no law among us whereby to punish any for only declaring by words, &c. their minds and understandings concerning the things and ways of God, as to salvation and an eternal condition.
Página 21 - When I was unkindly and unchristianly, as I believe, driven from my house and land and wife and children, (in the midst of a New England winter, now about thirty-five years past,) at Salem, that ever honored Governor, Mr.