History of the Town of Plymouth, from Its First Settlement in 1620, to the Present Time: With a Concise History of the Aborigines of New England, and Their Wars with the English, &c |
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... spirits , sustained by a holy trust , must have traced through the eye of faith the glorious destiny of future generations . While we trace , in their struggle for religious and political freedom , our inestimable institutions , and ...
... spirits , sustained by a holy trust , must have traced through the eye of faith the glorious destiny of future generations . While we trace , in their struggle for religious and political freedom , our inestimable institutions , and ...
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... spirits Common land reserved to the 228 Wendall , Esq . 214 town 164 Compact of the Pilgrims and names of the signers 18 Congregational Church 260 Constables chosen , and re- 171 22 fuse to serve Coppin , Pilot of Mayflower Corbitant ...
... spirits Common land reserved to the 228 Wendall , Esq . 214 town 164 Compact of the Pilgrims and names of the signers 18 Congregational Church 260 Constables chosen , and re- 171 22 fuse to serve Coppin , Pilot of Mayflower Corbitant ...
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... spirit , by which the puritans were actuated and sustained . In the year 1617 , the church under Mr. Robinson , employed Mr. Robert Cush- man , and Mr. John Carver , as their agents to the Virginia Company , to obtain a grant of ...
... spirit , by which the puritans were actuated and sustained . In the year 1617 , the church under Mr. Robinson , employed Mr. Robert Cush- man , and Mr. John Carver , as their agents to the Virginia Company , to obtain a grant of ...
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... spirits of our forefathers can be supposed sensible to what passes in this world , where they acted their part , they must enjoy the most sublime recompense , in the knowledge that , by the wisdom and goodness of God , the little band ...
... spirits of our forefathers can be supposed sensible to what passes in this world , where they acted their part , they must enjoy the most sublime recompense , in the knowledge that , by the wisdom and goodness of God , the little band ...
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... spirits aspired to heaven , and falling on their knees , they blessed God , who had brought them over the furious ocean , and delivered them from many perils and miseries . The original destination of the settlers was Hud- son's river ...
... spirits aspired to heaven , and falling on their knees , they blessed God , who had brought them over the furious ocean , and delivered them from many perils and miseries . The original destination of the settlers was Hud- son's river ...
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Alden ancestors anniversary appointed born Boston called Cape Cod Capt Captain Carver celebrated chosen church Clark Clark's Island club command committee corn Cotton court Cushman daughter Davis Deacon death December descendants died Duxbury Edward Winslow Eel river elder England English Ephraim Morton erected fathers Faunce feet friends gentlemen governor Bradford harbor hill honor Indians inhabitants Isaac James John Howland John Winslow Joseph Josiah King land laws Leyden liberty lived Lothrop married Marshfield Mary Howland Massachusetts Massasoit Mayflower meeting Memorial ment minister Nathaniel native occasion Old Colony ordered parish pastor persons Pilgrim Society Plymouth colony pounds preached present Prince puritan received religious resided respect sachem Samuel Samuel Fuller selectmen shallop shillings ship shore sons Squanto Thomas Thomas Hinckley tion town of Plymouth town-meeting venerable vessels voted Warren Watson wife William Bradford
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Page 191 - For He •established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children : that the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born ; who should arise and declare them to their children : that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of •God, but keep His commandments...
Page 23 - Ireland, king, defender of the faith, &c. having undertaken for the glory of God and advancement of the Christian faith and honor of our King and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia...
Page 23 - Virginia, do, by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God, and of one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation, and furtherance of the ends aforesaid, and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony, unto which we promise all due...
Page 128 - The Book of the General Laws Of the Inhabitants of the Jurisdiction of New-Plimouth...
Page 23 - 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, etc.
Page 343 - The pilgrim exile — sainted name ! The hill whose icy brow Rejoiced, when he came, in the morning's flame, In the morning's flame burns now. And the moon's cold light, as it lay that night, On the hillside and the sea, Still lies where he laid his houseless head ; But the pilgrim where is he ? The Pilgrim Fathers are at rest.
Page 23 - King, defender of the faith, etc., having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our King and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God, and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid...
Page 223 - In the event of such peace, or suspension of hostilities between the belligerent powers of Europe, or of such change in their measures affecting neutral commerce, as may render that of the United States sufficiently safe, in the judgment of the President," he is authorized to suspend the embargo.
Page 138 - I think I can clearly say that before these present troubles broke out, the English did not possess one foot of land in this colony but what was fairly obtained by honest purchase of the Indian proprietors.
Page 229 - The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.