American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Bay Psalm Book (1640) the first book printed in America, was the work of John Eliot, with Richard Mather and Thomas Welch. The Bay Psalm Book used the first printing press in the American colonies, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, this volume became the approved hymnal of the Massachusetts Bay Colony: <The whole book of Psalms faithfully translated into English meter, whereunto is prefixed a discourse declaring not only the lawfulness, but also the necessity of the heavenly Ordinances of singing Scripture Psalms in the Churches of God.> 1640FB001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission...

Plantation Agreement of Providence (September 6, 1640): <We agree, as formerly hath been the liberties of the town, so still, to hold forth liberty of Conscience...> 1640PA001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1640PA001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Plantation Agreement of Providence, September 6, 1640.

Plymouth Patent Surrender (March 2, 1640) to King Charter I by William Bradford and associates: <Whereas the said William Bradford and divers others the first Instruments of God in the beginning of this Great work of Plantation together with such as the All Ordering God in his Providence added unto them have been at very great charges to procure the said lands privileges and freedoms...now for the better settling of the state of the said land...surrender into the hands of the whole court consisting of the Freemen of this Corporation of New Plymouth...the said Letters Patents...except the said Lands before excepted.>...

Grant of the Province of Maine (1639): <All Patronages...of all and every such Churches and Chapels as shall be made and erected within the said Province...any, of them with full power license and authority to build and erect or cause to be built and erected so many Churches and Chapels there as to the said Sir Ferdinando Gorges his heirs and assignee shall seem meet and convenient and to dedicate and consecrate the same or cause the same to bee dedicated and consecrated according to the Ecclesiastical Laws of this our Realm of England... And for the better government of...

Exeter, New Hampshire (August 4, 1639) the colonists defined the purpose for government, stating: <Whereas it hath pleased the Lord to move the Heart of our dread Sovereign Charles by the Grace of God King &c. to grant License and Liberty to sundry of his subjects to plant themselves in the Westerly parts of America, We his loyal Subjects Brethren of the Church in Exeter situate and lying upon the River Pascataqua with other Inhabitants there, considering with ourselves the Holy Will of God and our own Necessity that we should not live without wholesome Laws and Civil Government among us...