American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Henry Vaughan (April 17, 1622-April 23, 1695) was an English physician and poet, who was born in Wales. After receiving an education at Jesus College, Oxford, he practiced medicine in Brecon. Many of his best poems, such as "The Retreate," "The Sap" and "I walkt the other day" are included in his collection titled, Silex Scintillans, 1655. In his poem, The Night, Henry Vaughan wrote: <Dear Night! This world's defeat; The stop to busy fool; care's check and curb; The day of spirits; my soul's calm retreat Which none disturb! Christ's progress, and His prayer-time; The hours to which high Heaven...

Virginia Colony (March 22, 1622) was able to avert a threatened Indian attack due to the warning of a young Indian named "Chanco." On Jamestown Island, Virginia, the church marker stated: <In memory of Chanco, an Indian youth converted to Christianity, who resided in the household of Richard Pace across the river from Jamestown and who, on the eve of the Indian massacre of March 22, 1622, warned Pace of the murderous plot thus enabling Pace to cross the river in a canoe to alert and save the Jamestown settlement from impending disaster.> 1622VA001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer,...

Virginia House of Burgesses (August 3, 1621) ordinances of Jamestown: <1.The Council of State...shall be chosen...Persons...which said Counselors and Council we earnestly pray and desire, and in his Majesty's Name strictly charge and command...they bend their Care and Endeavors to assist the said Governor; first and principally, in the Advancement of the Honor and Service of God, and the Enlargement of his Kingdom amongst the Heathen People; and next, in erecting of the said Colony in due obedience to his Majesty, and all lawful Authority from his Majesty's Directions; and lastly, in maintaining the said People in Justice and Christian Conversation...

Virginia House of Burgesses (July 24, 1621) ordinance of Jamestown: <Know Ye, that we, the said Treasurer, Council, and Company, taking into our careful Consideration the present State of the said Colony of Virginia, and intending, by the Divine Assistance, to settle such a Form of Government there, as may be to the greatest Benefit and Comfort of the People.> 1621VA001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1621VA001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Virginia, July 24, 1621, ordinance of House of Burgesses, Jamestown. Richard L. Perry, ed., Sources of...

Massachusetts History (1620) from The Original 13-A Documentary History of Religion in America's First Thirteen States (Amerisearch, Inc., 2009): <Persecution of dissenting religious groups by the monarchs in Europe contributed to large scale migrations to America. The Plymouth Colony was founded by persecuted Pilgrim Separatists, who settled in 1620, and the Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded Puritans dissenters of the Church of England, who settled in 1629. Once in Massachusetts, Puritans did not tolerate dissenting Baptists, Congregationalists and Quakers, who fled to found Rhode Island, Connecticut and Pennsylvania, respectively. Legislation was passed against Baptists in 1644- 1678, and there was specific...