American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Charter of Carolina (June 30, 1665): <Charles the Second, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith...We were graciously pleased to grant unto our right trusty and right well-beloved Cousin and Counselor Edward Earl of Clarendon...all that province, territory, or tract of ground, called Carolina... Know ye, That We, at the humble request of the said grantees, in the aforesaid Letters Patents named, and as a further mark of our especial favor to them, we are graciously pleased to enlarge our said grant unto them... And furthermore, the patronage and advowsons of...

New York Colony (1665) the colonial legislature enacted: <Whereas, The public worship of God is much discredited for want of painful [serious] and able ministers to instruct the people in the true religion, it is ordered that a church shall be built in each parish, capable of holding two hundred persons; that ministers of every church shall preach every Sunday, and pray for the king, queen, the Duke of York, and the royal family; and to marry persons after legal publication of license... Sunday is not to be profaned by traveling, by laborers, or vicious persons... Church wardens to report twice a...

New Jersey Concession of Lord's Proprietors (February 10, 1664) Agreement of Province of New Caesarea, or New Jersey, with Every Adventurer and Such as Shall Settle or Plant There: <ITEM. That no person qualified as aforesaid within the said Province, at any time shall be any ways molested, punished, disquieted or called in question for any difference in opinion or practice in matter of religious concernments, who do not actually disturb the civil peace of the said Province; But that all and every such person and persons may from time to time, and at all times, freely and fully have...

Rhode Island & Providence Plantations Charter (July 8, 1663) was granted by King Charles II to John Clarke, Roger Williams, and others. In 1636, Williams left Massachusetts with his followers, for the purpose of religious freedom, and founded Providence Plantation. There they established the First Baptist Church in America in 1639. The Colonial Patent of 1644 was confirmed by the 1663 Royal Charter of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, which read: <Charles the Second, by the Grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith...greeting: Whereas we have been informed, by the humble petition of our...

Cotton Mather (February 12, 1663-February 13, 1728) was an American colonial clergyman and educator. He graduated from Harvard, 1678, and joined his father, Increase Mather, in the pastorate of the Second Church in Boston, 1680. The House of Representatives had attempted to appoint him President of Harvard, 1703. He helped found Yale University, and in 1721, became President of the Connecticut College. He authored 450 books, and was the first person born in America to be elected to the Royal Society of London. Cotton Mather was regarded as the most brilliant man of New England in his time. Among his many...