American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

New Jersey History (1609) from The Original 13-A Documentary History of Religion in America's First Thirteen States (Amerisearch, 2009): <On September 4, 1609, explorer Henry Hudson, sailing for the Dutch East India Company, dropped anchor in Cape May and went ashore with 20 men to explore. The first European explorers to view the coast of New Jersey were Italian John Cabot in 1497 and Giovanni da Verrazano in 1524. In 1610, English Captain Samuel Argall named the river and the land southwest of it "Delaware," after the Governor of Virginia Thomas West, 3rd Baron De la Warr. In 1620, Dutch Captain...

Second Charter of Virginia (May 23, 1609) granted by King James I, stated: <James, by the Grace of God, King of England...Defender of the Faith...Greeting. Whereas, at the humble...Request of sundry our loving and well disposed Subjects, intending to deduce a Colony, and to make Habitation and Plantation of sundry our People in that Part of America, commonly called VIRGINIA, and other Parts...not actually possessed of any Christian Prince or People... Now, forasmuch as divers and sundry of our loving Subjects...which have already engaged themselves in furthering the Business of the said Colony...intend, by the Assistance of Almighty God, to prosecute...

John Milton (December 9, 1608-November 8, 1674) was an English poet and political writer. His blank-verse epic, Paradise Lost, 1667, considered a masterpiece of English literature, detailed Lucifer's revolt against God and the fall in the garden of Adam and Eve. Milton aggressively defended the Puritan cause, writing: Pro Populo Anglicano, 1651; The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates, 1649; The Tetrachordon, 1645; and The Reason of Church Government, 1642, which declared that governments should exert no control over the local churches. In his middle forties, John Milton went blind, followed by his wife dying in childbirth. He continued creating by dictating his...

John Harvard (November 1607-September 14, 1638) was the first benefactor of Harvard College. Born in London, he emigrated to Massachusetts, 1637, and served as Charlestown's minister. He bequeathed his library and half of his estate for the founding of the first college in America, which was subsequently named in his honor, 1639, as recorded in the Old South Leaflets: <After God had carried us safe to New-England, and wee had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, rear'd convenient places for God's worship, and settled the Civill Government: One of the next things we longed for, and looked after...

Virginia (May 14, 1607) the first permanent colonial settlement in North America, was founded by settlers who embarked from England in December of 1606. Their initial act after landing at Cape Henry, April 26, 1607, was to erect a wooden cross and commence a prayer meeting, led by the Reverend Robert Hunt. Later that year, after Reverend Hunt's death, the settlers stated: <1607. To the glory of God and in memory of the Reverend Robert Hunt, Presbyter, appointed by the Church of England. Minister of the Colony which established the English Church and English Civilization at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607. His people,...