American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Declaration of Bodie Politick (March 1637) signed by 23 former citizens of Boston, being the first civil compact of its kind in the New World. It was adopted by the founders of Portsmouth on the Island of Aquidneck: <We whose names are underwritten do hereby solemnly, in the presence of Jehovah, incorporate ourselves into a Bodie Politick and, as He shall help, will submit our persons, lives and estates unto our Lord Jesus Christ, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, and to all those perfect and most absolute laws of His given in His Holy Word of Truth, to...

Massachusetts General Court (1636) resolved to establish a code of laws that would be: <..agreeable to the word of God.> 1636MC001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1636MC001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Massachusetts General Court, 1636, resolved to establish a code of laws, Massachusetts Colonial Records, 1:174. Benjamin Fletcher Wright, Jr., American Interpretations of Natural Law (New York: Russell & Russell, 1962), p. 33. John Eidsmoe, Christianity and the Constitution-The Faith of Our Founding Fathers (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, A Mott Media Book, 1987, 6th...

Harvard University (1636) founded by the General Court of Massachusetts only sixteen years after the landing of the Pilgrims, is the oldest university in the United States. Originally called the College at Cambridge, being established in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it was renamed after its first major benefactor, Rev. John Harvard (1607-1638), who donated his library and half of his estate. The declared purpose of the college was: <To train a literate clergy.> 1636HU001 The Rules and Precepts observed at Harvard, September 26, 1642, stated: <1. When any Scholar...is able to make and speak true Latine in Verse and Prose....And decline perfectly the paradigims...

Connecticut History (1635) from The Original 13-A Documentary History of Religion in America's First Thirteen States (Amerisearch, Inc., 2009): <The first English settlement was begun on the Connecticut River by traders from the Plymouth Colony. Dutch traders from New Amsterdam had previously sailed up the Connecticut River in 1614, and set up a fort in 1623, but later abandoned it. Thomas Hooker, driven out of England by Anglican Archbishop William Laud, became the pastor of the eighth Church in the colony of Massachusetts. After a dispute with Puritan leader John Cotton, Hooker left with one hundred people to found Hartford in...

New England Charter Surrender (April 25, 1635) resignation of Charter by the Council for New England: <The faithful endeavors of some of us that have sought the advancement of the plantation of New England have not been without frequent and inevitable troubles...from our first discovery of that coast to the present... It pleased God about that time to bereave us of the most noble and principal props thereof, as the Duke of Lenox, Marquis Hamilton, and many other strong stays to this work... These crosses did draw upon us such a disheartened weakness as there only remained a carcass in a...