American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Rhode Island History (1630) from The Original 13-A Documentary History of Religion in America's First Thirteen States (Amerisearch, 2009): <Roger Williams was granted a tract of land by the Narragansett Indian Chiefs, Canonicus and Miantonmoh. He proceeded to found the Colony of Providence Plantation and began the First Baptist Church in America. Roger Williams, a Puritan minister, had fled England six years earlier on December 1, 1630, as he believed the Anglican government of the King should not control the church. He later fled the Colony of Massachusetts in 1635, as he believed the Puritan government of the Massachusetts' General...

Delaware History (1629) from The Original 13-A Documentary History of Religion in America's First Thirteen States (Amerisearch, 2009): <Under the authority of the Dutch West India Company, a tract of land from Cape Henlopen to the mouth of the Delaware River was purchased from the natives, and a company was formed in Holland to colonize it. A ship of Dutch immigrants reached Delaware in the Spring of 1631 to build a settlement. To their demise, an Indian attack destroyed their settlement. In 1638, Peter Minuit brought two ship with 50 settlers into Delaware Bay to found New Sweden. They founded...

New Plymouth Colony Charter (1629) granted to William Bradford: <Know ye that the said council...in consideration that William Bradford and his associates have for these nine years lived in New England aforesaid and have there inhabited and planted a town called by the name of New Plymouth at their own proper costs and charges: And now seeing that by the special Providence of God, and their extraordinary care and industry they have increased their plantation to near three hundred people, and are upon all occasions able to relieve any new planters or others his Majesty's subjects who may fall upon that...

Grant to Sir Ferdinando Gorges and John Mason (November 17, 1629) by the Council of New England: <This Indenture made the seventeenth day of November Anno Domini 1629, and in the fifth year of the reign of our sovereign lord Charles, by the Grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c., between the President and Council of New England in the one party and Sir Ferdinando Gorges of London, Knight, and Captain John Mason of London, Esquire, on the other party...the president and council intend to name The Province of Laconia... And also yielding...

Grant of New Hampshire (November 7, 1629) to John Mason: <This Indenture made ye Seventh Day of November Anno Domini 1629 & in ye Fifth year of ye Reign of our Sovereign Lord Charles by ye Grace of God King of England Scotland France & Ireland Defender of the Faith &c Between ye President & Council of new England on the one party & Capt John Mason of London Esquire on ye other party.> 1629NH001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1629NH001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Grant...