American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

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...

Mayflower Compact (November 11, 1620) was America's first great governmental document, signed by the Pilgrims before they disembarked from their ship, the Mayflower. This covenant, revolutionary in its concept of individuals mutually and voluntarily submitting themselves to each other under God, has influenced all other American constitutional instruments since. The Mayflower Compact stated: <In the Name of God, Amen. We, whose names are underwritten, the Loyal Subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord King James, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. Having undertaken for the Glory of God, and Advancement of...

Plymouth Council Charter (November 3, 1620) granted by King James I (1566-1625), declared the purpose of the colony: <James, by the Grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith...Greeting, Whereas, upon the humble Petition of divers of our well disposed Subjects, that intended to make several Plantations in the Parts of America... We according to our princely Inclination, favoring much their worthy Disposition, in Hope thereby to advance the enlargement of Christian Religion, to the Glory of God Almighty, as also by that Means to stretch out the Bounds of our Dominions...granted unto Sir Thomas...

Virginia Charter of Berkeley Hundred (December 4, 1619) Charter for 38 colonists who landed at a place they called Berkeley Hundred: <We ordain that the day of our ship's arrival...in the land of Virginia shall be yearly and perpetually kept Holy as a day of Thanksgiving to Almighty God.> 1619VA003 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1619VA003. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Virginia Charter, December 4, 1619, of the colonists who landed at Berkeley Hundred. Jim Dwyer, ed., "Strange Stories, Amazing Facts of America's Past" (Pleasantville, NY: Reader's...