American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Pennsylvania History (1642) from The Original 13-A Documentary History of Religion in America's First Thirteen States (Amerisearch, Inc., 2009): <A Swedish settlement in 1642, was the the first settlement in what was later to be Pennsylvania. In 1669, more Swedish settlers came up the Delaware River built Fort Wicaco, at a place later granted William Penn. Old Swedes' Church, "Gloria Dei," met in a blockhouse at Fort Wicaco in 1677, being served by German pastor Jacobus Fabritius and Swedish schoolmaster Jacob Jongh. Its new building, dedicated July 2, 1700, is the oldest Church in Pennsylvania. Charles II granted the land to...

Sir Isaac Newton (December 25, 1642-March 20, 1727) was a mathematician and natural philosopher who discovered of the laws of universal gravitation, formulated the three laws of motion, which aided in advancing the discipline of dynamics, and helped develop calculus into a comprehensive branch of mathematics. He went to Trinity College, Cambridge, 1661; retired to Woolsthorp, Lincolnshire, during the Plague, 1665-66; and became a fellow, 1667. Newton was honored to occupy the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics, 1669, and was elected Fellow of the Royal Society, 1672. He was given the position of Master of the Mint, 1699, and in 1701, entered...

Old Deluder Satan Law (1642) Massachusetts Bay Colony, along with the Colony of Connecticut in 1647, passed the Old Deluder Satan Law to prevent illiteracy and to prevent the abuse of power over a population ignorant of Scriptures, as had been the case in Europe. The law instituted: <It being one chiefe project of that old deluder, Sathan, to keepe men from the knowledge of the Scriptures, as in former time, and that learning may not be buried in the grave of our forefathers in church and Commonwealth.... It is therefore ordered by this Court...that every township within this jurisdiction,...

Massachusetts Body of Liberties (December 1641) the first code of laws established in New England, were established by the Massachusetts General Court. They were compiled by Nathaniel Ward (1578- 1652), a leading English Puritan minister, who had been trained as a lawyer. He came to the Colony in 1634, and was for a time pastor at Ipswich. The Massachusetts Body of Liberties stated: <The free fruition of such liberties, Immunities and Priveledges as humanities, Civilitie and Christianitie call for as due every man in his place and proportion without impeachment and Infringement hath ever bene and ever will be the tranqualities...

Government of Rhode Island (March 19, 1641): <The General Court of Election began and held at Portsmouth, from the 16th of March, to the 19th of the same month, 1641. 1. It was ordered and agreed, before the Election, that an engagement by oath should be taken of all the officers... To the Execution of this office, I Judge myself bound before God to walk faithfully and this I profess in ye presence of God... 3. It is ordered and unanimously agreed upon, that the Government which this Body Politic doth attend unto in this Island, and the Jurisdiction thereof,...