Memoir of Roger Williams: The Founder of the State of Rhode-Island |
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Page xvii
... Salem - interference of the General Court - removes to Plymouth — the Indians — difficulties at Plymouth — birth of Mr. Williams ' eldest child , CHAPTER IV . Returns to Salem - ministers ' meetings - Court again interferes -the rights ...
... Salem - interference of the General Court - removes to Plymouth — the Indians — difficulties at Plymouth — birth of Mr. Williams ' eldest child , CHAPTER IV . Returns to Salem - ministers ' meetings - Court again interferes -the rights ...
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... Salem , where a small company of emigrants had fixed their residence a short time before . Mr. Endicott's first letter from America is dated September 13 , 1628 , and his arrival is considered as the date of the first permanent ...
... Salem , where a small company of emigrants had fixed their residence a short time before . Mr. Endicott's first letter from America is dated September 13 , 1628 , and his arrival is considered as the date of the first permanent ...
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... Salem was not the proper position for the capital . The Governor , and the principal part of the emigrants , left Salem soon after their arrival , and resided awhile at Charlestown . Here sickness pre- * Winthrop's Journal , vol . i . p ...
... Salem was not the proper position for the capital . The Governor , and the principal part of the emigrants , left Salem soon after their arrival , and resided awhile at Charlestown . Here sickness pre- * Winthrop's Journal , vol . i . p ...
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... Salem , Boston , and other towns in Massachusetts Bay , belonged , for the most part , to the other class of Non - Conformists , who did not , while in England , separate wholly from the Established Church , though they opposed her ...
... Salem , Boston , and other towns in Massachusetts Bay , belonged , for the most part , to the other class of Non - Conformists , who did not , while in England , separate wholly from the Established Church , though they opposed her ...
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... Salem , on the 6th of August , 1629 , when thirty persons entered into a covenant in writ- ing , and the Rev. Mr. Skelton was ordained , or instituted , as the pastor , and the Rev. Mr. Higginson as the teacher ; these offices being ...
... Salem , on the 6th of August , 1629 , when thirty persons entered into a covenant in writ- ing , and the Rev. Mr. Skelton was ordained , or instituted , as the pastor , and the Rev. Mr. Higginson as the teacher ; these offices being ...
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Page 424 - ... attempt or enterprise the destruction, invasion, detriment, or annoyance of this commonwealth ; and to use and exercise, over the army and navy, and over the militia in actual service, the law-martial, in time of war or invasion, and also in time of rebellion, declared by the legislature to exist, as occasion shall necessarily require ; and to take and surprise, by all ways and means whatsoever, all and ever...