American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Virginia House of Burgesses (1663) ordinance of Jamestown: <An Act against Persons that refuse to have their Children Baptized.> 1663VA001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1663VA001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Virginia Ordinance, 1663, of House of Burgesses, Jamestown.

Virginia House of Burgesses (1662) ordinance of Jamestown: <Enacted that the Lord's Day be kept Holy, and no journeys be made on that day, unless upon necessity. And all persons inhabiting in this country, having no lawful excuse, shall, every Sunday, resort to the parish Church or chapel, and there abide orderly during the common prayer, preaching, and Divine service.> 1662VA001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1662VA001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Virginia Ordinance, 1662, of House of Burgesses, Jamestown. Commonwealth of Virginiia, 1662. Benjamin Franklin Morris...

Charter of Connecticut (1662): <Whereby Our said People Inhabitants there, may be so religiously, peaceably and civilly governed, as their good Life and orderly Conversation may win and invite the Natives of the Country to the Knowledge and Obedience of the only true GOD, and He Savior of Mankind, and the Christian Faith, which in Our Royal Intentions, and the adventurers free Possession, is the only and principal End of this Plantation... Nevertheless, our Will and Pleasure is, and We do hereby declare unto all Christian Kings, Princes, and States, that if any Persons which shall hereafter be of the...

Daniel Defoe (c.1660-April 24, 1731) was an English author who was one of the originators of the English novel. A merchant by profession, he began writing pamphlets against the Anglican High Church, for which he was fined and placed in stocks. Being nearly 60 years of age, Daniel Defoe began writing novels, his most popular of which were: Robinson Crusoe, 1719; Moll Flanders, 1722, and A Journal of the Plague Year, 1722. In volume III of A Selection from the Works of Daniel Defoe, he wrote: <In what glorious colors do the Scriptures, upon all occasions, represent these two hand-in-hand graces,...

Virginia Governor William Berkeley (August 8, 1660) to officials in Lower Norfolk: <Mr. Richard Conquest, I hear with sorrow that you are very remiss in your office, in not stopping frequent meetings of this most pestilent sect of ye Quakers, whether this be so or not, I do charge you (by virtue of ye power ye grand assemble has entrusted me with) not to suffer any more of their meetings or Conventicles & if any such shall be refractory, that you send them up prisoners to James City. I expect your obedience to this which I send you without enclosing that...