American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Virginia House of Burgesses (1668) ordinance of Jamestown: <The 27th of August appointed for a day of humiliation, fasting, and prayer, to implore God's mercy: if any person be found upon that day gaming, drinking, or working (works of necessity excepted), upon presentment by church-wardens and proof, he shall be fined one hundred pounds of tobacco.> 1668VA001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1668VA001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Virginia Ordinances, 1668, of the House of Burgesses, Jamestown. Benjamin Franklin Morris The Christian Life and Character of the...

John Harris (c.1666-September 7, 1719) was an English mathematician. He edited The Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, 1704, which was the first encyclopedia in the English language. He was vice- president of the Royal Society and participated in giving the Boyle Lectures which defended the Christian faith. The lectures given by John Harris in 1698, were titled: <Atheistical Objections Against the Being of God and His Attributes, Fairly Considered and Fully Refuted.> 1666JH001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1666JH001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). John Harris, 1698,...

Carolina Agreements of Lords Proprietors (1665) of the Province: <8. Item That no person or persons qualified as aforesaid within the Province...at any time shall be any ways molested punished disquieted or called in question for any differences in opinion or practice in matters of religious concernment who do not actually disturb the civil peace of the said Province or Counties but that all and every such person and persons from to time and at all times freely and fully have and enjoy his and their judgments....in matters of religion throughout all the said Province they behaving themselves peaceably and quietly...

Charter of Carolina (June 30, 1665): <Charles the Second, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith...We were graciously pleased to grant unto our right trusty and right well-beloved Cousin and Counselor Edward Earl of Clarendon...all that province, territory, or tract of ground, called Carolina... Know ye, That We, at the humble request of the said grantees, in the aforesaid Letters Patents named, and as a further mark of our especial favor to them, we are graciously pleased to enlarge our said grant unto them... And furthermore, the patronage and advowsons of...

New York Colony (1665) the colonial legislature enacted: <Whereas, The public worship of God is much discredited for want of painful [serious] and able ministers to instruct the people in the true religion, it is ordered that a church shall be built in each parish, capable of holding two hundred persons; that ministers of every church shall preach every Sunday, and pray for the king, queen, the Duke of York, and the royal family; and to marry persons after legal publication of license... Sunday is not to be profaned by traveling, by laborers, or vicious persons... Church wardens to report twice a...