American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

North Carolina History (1663) from The Original 13-A Documentary History of Religion in America's First Thirteen States (Amerisearch, Inc., 2009): <Carolina was originally granted to Sir Walter Raleigh by Queen Elizabeth in 1584 in England first attempt to colonize America. In 1629 King Charles I granted land to Sir Robert Heath, but he made no attempt to colonize it, though a few settlers from Virginia, New England and the Barbados, found their way there. When Charles II returned to the throne, he wanted to reward eight friends who supported him, so in 1663, he separated Carolina from Virginia and granted a...

Fundamental Constitutions of the Carolinas (1663) were drawn up by the philosopher, John Locke, at the request of Sir William Berkeley and the seven other lord proprietors of the colony. It stated:  <No man shall be permitted to be a freeman of Carolina, or to have any estate of habitation within it that doth not acknowledge a God, and that God is publicly and solemnly to be worshiped.> 1663FC001 <[No person may use] reproachful, reviling, or abusive language [against any religion.]> 1663FC002 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1663FC001....

Charter of Carolina (March 24, 1663) was granted by King Charles II to Sir William Berkeley and the seven other lord proprietors. Named "Carolana" or "Charles'land," after King Charles I of England, it had initially been granted by Charles I to Sir Robert Heath, 1629. English colonists began to settle the area permanently in the in the 1650's. The first governor, William Sayle, was a Nonconformist and allowed religious toleration to all denominations: Calvinists and Baptists from England and parts of New England, Huguenot Protestants from France, Episcopalians, Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, Lutherans, German Reformed, Moravians, etc. Many Christians began to settle in...

Virginia House of Burgesses (September 1663) ordinance of Jamestown: <An Act prohibiting the Unlawful Assembling of Quakers.> 1663VA002 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1663VA002. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Virginia Ordinance, September 1663, of House of Burgesses, Jamestown.

Virginia Governor William Berkeley (June 27, 1663) to officials in Lower Norfolk: <Gentlemen I thank you for your care of ye County & desire you to continue it, & especially to provide that abominated seed of ye Quakers spread not in your County...Once more I beseech you gentlemen: to have an exact care of this Pestilent sect of ye Quakers.> 1663WB001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1663WB001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Virginia, June 27, 1663, Governor William Berkeley to officials in Lower Norfold.