American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

George Fox (July 1624-January 13, 1691) was the founder of the Society of Friends, or "Quakers," 1652. After his conversion experience, 1646, he traveled extensively, ministering in England, Ireland, Scotland, Holland, the West Indies and North America, often being imprisoned for his beliefs. William Penn, founder of the Pennsylvania Colony, was close friends with Fox, even traveling and preaching with him. Penn himself was imprisoned three times for his faith, once in the Tower of London for eight months. In 1694, George Fox wrote in his journal: <The Lord showed me, so that I did see clearly, that he did not...

Virginia House of Burgesses (March 5, 1624) ordinances of Jamestown: <1. That there shall be in every plantation, where the people use to meet for the worship of God, a house or room sequestered for that purpose, and not to be for any temporal use whatsoever, and a place...sequestered only to the burial of the dead. That whosoever shall absent himself from Divine service any Sunday without an allowable excuse shall forfeit a pound of tobacco, and he that absenteth himself a month shall forfeit 50 pound of tobacco. That there be an uniformity in our Church as near as may...

Blaise Pascal (June 19, 1623-August 19, 1662) was a French physicist, mathematician and philosopher. Known as the "Father of the Science of Hydrostatics," he helped develop the barometer, pioneered hydrodynamics and fluid mechanics, leading to his discovery of "Pascal's Principle," the basis of hydraulics. He made invaluable contributions in the areas of probability and differential calculus, with the invention of Pascal's triangle for calculating the coefficients of a binomial expansion. His influential religious works, emphasizing "the reasons of the heart" over dry logic and intellect, were titled Lettres Provinciales, 1656-57, and Pensees Sur La Religion, published posthumously in 1670. In Pensees,...

Virginia House of Burgesses (1623) ordinance of Jamestown, legislation enacted requiring civil magistrates: <To see that the Sabbath was not profaned by working or any employments, or journeying from place to place.> 1623VA001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1623VA001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Virginia, 1623, ordinance of House of Burgesses, Jamestown, "Our Christian Heritage," Letter from Plymouth Rock (Marlborough, NH: The Plymouth Rock Foundation), p. 2.

New Hampshire History (1622) from The Original 13-A Documentary History of Religion in America's First Thirteen States (Amerisearch, Inc., 2009): <On March 9, 1622, John Mason, called "the founder of New Hampshire," received a Grant from King James I. Samuel de Champlain had previously sailed along the New Hampshire coast in 1605, and Captain John Smith wrote of it in his Description of New England. In August 1622, John Mason and Sir Ferdinando Gorges jointly received a grant. David Thomson, Sir Henry Roswell and Edward Hilton were granted land under the name of New Hampshire. The first settlement was by David...