American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Government of New Haven Colony (November 6, 1643): <It was agreed and concluded as a fundamental order not to be disputed or questioned hereafter, that none shall be admitted to be free burgesses in any of the plantations within this jurisdiction for the future, but such planters as are members of some or other of the approved Churches of New England, nor shall any but such free burgesses have any vote in any election, (the six present freemen aft Milforde enjoying the liberty with the cautions agreed,) nor shall any power or trust in the ordering of any civil affairs,...

New England Confederation Constitution (May 19, 1643) was the first document in America where colonies united themselves. The colonists of New Plymouth, New Haven, Massachusetts and Connecticut, covenanted together, stated: <The Articles of Confederation between the plantations under the government of Massachusetts, the plantations under the government of New Plymouth, the plantations under the government of Connecticut, and the government of New Haven with the plantations in combination therewith: Whereas we all came to these parts of America with the same end and aim, namely, to advance the Kingdome of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to injoy the liberties of the...

Virginia House of Burgesses (1643) ordinances of Jamestown: <For the preservation of the purity of doctrine and unity of the Church, It is enacted that all ministers whatsoever which shall reside in the colony are to be conformable to the orders and constitutions of the Church of England, and the laws therein established, and not otherwise be admitted to teach or preach publicly or privately, And that the Governor and Counsel do take care that all nonconformists upon notice of them shall be compelled to depart the colony with all convenience.> 1643VA002 -- 1643VA002. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Virginia...

Virginia House of Burgesses (March 2, 1643) ordinances of Jamestown: <Whereas it was enacted at an Assembly in January 1641, that according to a statute made in the third year of the reign of our sovereign Lord King James of blessed memory, and that no popish recusants should at any time hereafter exercise the place or places of secret counselors, register or commissioner, surveyors or sheriff, or any other public place, but be utterly disabled for the same. And it is further enacted by the authority aforesaid that the statute in force against the popish recusants be duly executed in this...

Patent for Providence Plantations (March 14, 1643): <The said Laws, Constitutions, and Punishments, for the Civil Government of the said Plantations, be conformable to the Laws of England, so far as the Nature and Constitution of the place will admit...for the better transacting of their public Affairs to make and use a public Seal as the known Seal of Providence-Plantations, in the Narraganset-Bay, in New-England. In Testimony whereof, the said Robert Earl of Warwick...the Fourteenth Day of March, in the Nineteenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign- Lord King Charles, and in the Year of Our Lord God, 1643.>...