American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Robert Boyle (January 25, 1627-December 30, 1691) considered a "Father of Modern Chemistry," was a British natural philosopher. He studied Bacon, Descartes, and other contemporaries including: scientists Isaac Newton, Robert Hooke and Galileo; philosophers John Locke and Thomas Hobbes; and poet John Milton. Boyle was noted for contributions in physics and chemistry, especially his pneumatic experiments with the vacuum pump and the espousal of atomism, that gases were made of tiny particles. He put forward the basic law of gas dynamics, which related gas pressures to temperature and volume, known as "Boyle's Law": that if the volume of a gas is decreased,...

Purchase of Manhattan (November 5, 1626) notification by the Dutch: <High and Mighty Lords: Yesterday arrived here the ship the Arms of Amsterdam, which sailed from New Netherlands, out of the river Mauritius, on the 23rd September. They report that our people are in good heart and live in peace there; the women also have borne some children there. They have purchased the island Manhattes from the Indians for the value of 60 guilders; tis 11,000 morgens in size. They had all their grain sowed by the middle of May and reaped by the middle of August. They send thence samples...

Charter Granted by Gustave Adolphus (June 14, 1626) to the Swedish South Company: <Whereas...we have received reliable and certain intelligence that there are in...America...many rich countries and islands, of which some are inhabited by quiet and rather effeminate people, some by heathens and savages, some uninhabited, and some as yet only imperfectly explored. With which said countries it will not only be possible to carry on an extraordinary large commerce from our kingdom, but it is also most likely that the said people may likewise be made more civilized and taught morality and the Christian religion by the mutual intercourse and...

Articles for New Netherlands Colony (1624) from Chamber of Amsterdam: <They shall within their territory practice no other form of divine worship than that of the Reformed religion...and thus by their Christian life and conduct seek to draw the Indians and other blind people to the knowledge of God and His word, without, however, persecuting any on account of his faith, but leaving each one the use of his conscience.> 1624NN001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1624NN001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Articles for New Netherlands Colony,...

Warrant for William Ussling (December 21, 1624) to establish a General Company for Trade to Asia, Africa, America and Magellanica: <Gustavus Adolphus, by the Grace of God, King of Sweden...Know you, that...William Ussling has humbly...proved to us how a general trading company here from our kingdom of Sweden to Asia, Africa, America, and Magellanica could be established for the considerable improvement of our and the Crown's revenues and...has...promised to...organize this company using the utmost of his diligence and power, while he cherishes the certain hope that, with God's gracious blessing and help, it shall have a good beginning and progress as well...