New England Grant (February 12, 1629) to Thomas Lewis and Richard Bonighton by the Council for New England:
<To all Christian people to whom these present writing indented shall come, the Council for the affairs of New England in America send greeting in our Lord God everlasting...
Thomas Lewis...has already been at the charge to transport himself and others to take a view of New England in America...in advancing of a plantation, and does now wholly intend by God's assistance with his associates to plant there, both for the good of his Majesty's realms and dominions and for the propagation of Christian religion among those infidels, and in consideration...with Captain Richard Bonighton...have undertaken at their own proper costs and charges to transport fifty persons there within seven years next ensuing to plant and inhabit there to the advancement of the general plantation.> 1629NE001
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Endnotes:
1629NE001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). New England Grant, February 12, 1629, to Thomas Lewis and Richard Bonighton by the Council for New England.