American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Charter granted by United Netherlands (March 27, 1614) for those who discover any new passages, havens or places: <The States-General of the United Netherlands...Greeting... Whereas...it would be honorable...that the good inhabitants should...occupy themselves in seeking out and discovering passages, havens, countries, and places that have not before now been discovered...and being informed by some traders that they intend, with God's merciful help, by diligence, labor, danger, and expense, to employ themselves thereat...Therefore...wishing that the experiment be free and open to all and every of the inhabitants of this country, have invited and do hereby invite all and every of the inhabitants...

New Netherlands History (1613) from The Original 13-A Documentary History of Religion in America's First Thirteen States (Amerisearch, Inc., 2009): <New York was originally New Netherlands, founded by the Dutch in 1613 with trading posts on the Hudson River. The early population was about half Dutch Reformed, a significant portion English, and a growing number of Germans, Swedes and Finns, who began immigrating after 1639, numbering about 500 out of the colony's total population of 3,500 in 1655. A controversy arose regarding the German and Scandinavian Lutheran immigrants in Middleburg, Long Island, as they were holding Church services without an approved...

Sir Henry Vane (baptized May 26, 1613-June 14, 1662) was the Governor of Massachusetts in 1636. An English colonial administrator and statesman, he served as joint treasurer of the English Navy, elected to Long and Short Parliaments and in 1640 was knighted by King Charles I. Sir Henry Vane is noted for having helped Roger Williams secure the Charter for Rhode Island in 1644, which bore Vane's signature as one of the commissioners for the plantation. In April 1663, Roger Williams wrote of Sir Henry Vane: <Under God, the great anchor of our ship is Sir Henry.> 1613HV001 Following Oliver Cromwell's...

Richard Crashaw (c.1613-August 25, 1649) was an English Metaphysical poet, known for using striking figures of speech. He associated with John Donne, and was a contemporary of both John Bunyan and John Milton. At first an Anglican in the High Church, he converted to Catholicism and died as canon of the Santa Casa Cathedral at Loreto. Many of his great poems are contained in Carmen Deo Nostra, 1652. In his Hymn of the Nativity, 1652, Richard Crashaw wrote: <Poor world (said I) what wilt thou do To entertain this starry stranger? Is this the best thou canst bestow? A cold, and...

Third Charter of Virginia (March 12, 1611): <James, by the Grace of God, King of England...Defender of the Faith...Greeting. Whereas at the humble Suit of divers and sundry our loving Subjects, as well Adventurers as Planters of the first Colony in Virginia, and for the Propagation of Christian Religion, and Reclaiming of People barbarous, to Civility and Humanity,  We have...granted unto them...the first Colony in Virginia... We therefore tendering the good and happy Success of the said Plantation, both in Regard of the General Weal of human Society, as in Respect of the Good of our own Estate and Kingdoms,...