American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Virginia House of Burgesses (1632) ordinances of Jamestown: <It is also thought fit, That upon every Sunday the minister shall half an hour or more before evening prayer examine, catechize, and instruct the youth and ignorant persons of his parish, in the Ten Commandments the articles of the belief and in the Lord's prayer; and shall diligently hear, instruct and teach the catechism, set forth in book of common prayer, And all fathers, mothers, masters and mistresses shall cause their children, servants or apprentices which have not learned the catechism to come to the Church at the time appointed, obediently to...

Virginia House of Burgesses (February 24, 1632) ordinances of Jamestown: <It is ordered, That there be a uniformity throughout this colony both in substance and circumstance to the cannons and constitution of the Church of England...and that every person yield ready obedience unto them upon penalty of the pains and forfeitures in that case appointed. That the statutes for coming to Church every Sunday and holidays be duly executed. That is to say; that the Church wardens do levy one shilling for every time of any person's absence from the Church having no lawful or reasonable excuse to be absent. And...

Samuel von Pufendorf (January 8, 1632-October 13, 1694) was a German philosopher, historian and jurist. The son of a Lutheran minister, he studied theology at the University of Leipzig and law at the University of Jena. In Copenhagen, during the war between Sweden and Denmark, 1658, he was imprisoned for eight months, and upon release traveled to Leiden where he published a complete system of universal law, 1660. He was Professor of the Law of Nature at the University of Heidelberg in Germany and the University of Lund in Sweden. He served as royal historian for the King of Sweden, 1677,...

Rhode Island History (1630) from The Original 13-A Documentary History of Religion in America's First Thirteen States (Amerisearch, 2009): <Roger Williams was granted a tract of land by the Narragansett Indian Chiefs, Canonicus and Miantonmoh. He proceeded to found the Colony of Providence Plantation and began the First Baptist Church in America. Roger Williams, a Puritan minister, had fled England six years earlier on December 1, 1630, as he believed the Anglican government of the King should not control the church. He later fled the Colony of Massachusetts in 1635, as he believed the Puritan government of the Massachusetts' General...

Delaware History (1629) from The Original 13-A Documentary History of Religion in America's First Thirteen States (Amerisearch, 2009): <Under the authority of the Dutch West India Company, a tract of land from Cape Henlopen to the mouth of the Delaware River was purchased from the natives, and a company was formed in Holland to colonize it. A ship of Dutch immigrants reached Delaware in the Spring of 1631 to build a settlement. To their demise, an Indian attack destroyed their settlement. In 1638, Peter Minuit brought two ship with 50 settlers into Delaware Bay to found New Sweden. They founded...