American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

New Jersey Concession of Lord's Proprietors (February 10, 1664) Agreement of Province of New Caesarea, or New Jersey, with Every Adventurer and Such as Shall Settle or Plant There: <ITEM. That no person qualified as aforesaid within the said Province, at any time shall be any ways molested, punished, disquieted or called in question for any difference in opinion or practice in matter of religious concernments, who do not actually disturb the civil peace of the said Province; But that all and every such person and persons may from time to time, and at all times, freely and fully have...

Rhode Island & Providence Plantations Charter (July 8, 1663) was granted by King Charles II to John Clarke, Roger Williams, and others. In 1636, Williams left Massachusetts with his followers, for the purpose of religious freedom, and founded Providence Plantation. There they established the First Baptist Church in America in 1639. The Colonial Patent of 1644 was confirmed by the 1663 Royal Charter of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, which read: <Charles the Second, by the Grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith...greeting: Whereas we have been informed, by the humble petition of our...

Cotton Mather (February 12, 1663-February 13, 1728) was an American colonial clergyman and educator. He graduated from Harvard, 1678, and joined his father, Increase Mather, in the pastorate of the Second Church in Boston, 1680. The House of Representatives had attempted to appoint him President of Harvard, 1703. He helped found Yale University, and in 1721, became President of the Connecticut College. He authored 450 books, and was the first person born in America to be elected to the Royal Society of London. Cotton Mather was regarded as the most brilliant man of New England in his time. Among his many...

Robert "King" Carter (1663-August 4, 1732) was Lieutenant Commander of the counties of Lancaster and Northumberland, 1715, and Governor of the Virginia Colony, approved by King George II in July of 1726. He owned over 300,00 acres; was a Member of the House of Burgesses at Jamestown; Colonial Treasurer; President of the Council; Speaker of the House; Chairman of the powerful Committee of Propriations and Grievances, and was acting rector of the College of William and Mary. His descendants include two U.S. Presidents, six governors of Virginia, and he was the father of Anne Hill Carter, who married Revolutionary War hero...

Declaration of Carolina Proprietor (August 25, 1663):  <His majesty having been graciously pleased, by his charter bearing date the 24th of March, in the 15th year of his reign, out of a pious and good intention for the propagation of the Christian faith amongst the barbarous and ignorant Indians, the enlargement of his empire and dominions, and enriching of his subjects, to grant and confirm to us....all that territory...extending from the north end of the island called Lucke Island...to the west as far as the South seas, and so southwardly as far as the river St. Matthias, which bordereth upon...