American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Charter of New England Petition (March 3, 1619)

Charter of New England Petition (March 3, 1619) Petition for Charter of New England by the Northern Company of Adventurers: <May it please your most excellent Majesty...to give license for the establishing of two colonies in Virginia in America, the one called the First Colony undertaken by certain noblemen, knights, and merchants about London, the other called the Second Colony likewise undertaken by certain knights and merchants of the western parts... Some...have, at their great charge and extreme hazard, continued to endeavor...to bring to pass so noble a work, in the constant pursuit whereof it has pleased God to aid...

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Pilgrim Articles (1618)

Pilgrim Articles (1618) sent by Pilgrim leaders John Robinson and William Brewster to the Counsel of England requestion approval to settle in Virginia: <Article III. The King's Majesty we acknowledge for Supreme Governor in his Dominion...but in all things obedience is due unto him if the thing commanded be not against God's Word... Article VII. And lastly, we desire to give unto all Superiors due honor to preserve the unity of the Spirit, with all who fear God, to have peace with all men what in us lieth, and wherein we err to be instructed by any.> 1618PA001 -- American Quotations...

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Richard Baxter (November 12, 1615-December 8, 1691)

Richard Baxter (November 12, 1615-December 8, 1691) was an English nonconformist chaplain and scholar. In his work, Poetical Fragments-Love Breathing Thanks and Praise, 1681, Richard Baxter wrote: <I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men.> 1615RB001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1615RB001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Richard Baxter, 1681, in his work titled, Poetical Fragments-Love Breathing Thanks and Praise. John Bartlett, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1855, 1980), p. 294.

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Charter granted by United Netherlands (March 27, 1614)

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...

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New Netherlands History (1613)

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...

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