A Complete History of Connecticut: Civil and Ecclesiastical, from the Emigration of Its First Planters, from England, in the Year 1630, to the Year 1764 ; and to the Close of the Indian Wars, Volume 1Maltby, Goldsmith and Company and Samuel Wadsworth, 1818 - Connecticut |
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... reason is , that after the most careful researches , no indictment of any person for that crime , nor any process relative to that affair , can be found . The minute in Goff's journal , published by governor Hutchinson , relative to the ...
... reason is , that after the most careful researches , no indictment of any person for that crime , nor any process relative to that affair , can be found . The minute in Goff's journal , published by governor Hutchinson , relative to the ...
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... reasons of the war . The agents return unsuccessful . The commissioners meet again , and determine to make war upon the Dutch and Narraganset Indians . The general court of Massachusetts refuses to raise men , and prevents the war ...
... reasons of the war . The agents return unsuccessful . The commissioners meet again , and determine to make war upon the Dutch and Narraganset Indians . The general court of Massachusetts refuses to raise men , and prevents the war ...
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... reasons of it . Their opposition to Antino- mianism . Assisted in the compilation of Cambridge Platform . Ec- clesiastical laws . Care to diffuse general knowledge : its happy influ- ence . Attempts to found a college at New - Haven ...
... reasons of it . Their opposition to Antino- mianism . Assisted in the compilation of Cambridge Platform . Ec- clesiastical laws . Care to diffuse general knowledge : its happy influ- ence . Attempts to found a college at New - Haven ...
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... reasons of it . The great swamp fight . Loss of men . Courage exhibited and hard- ships endured . Captain Pierce and his party cut off . Nanunttenoo taken . Success of captains Denison and Avery . Captain Wadsworth and his party slain ...
... reasons of it . The great swamp fight . Loss of men . Courage exhibited and hard- ships endured . Captain Pierce and his party cut off . Nanunttenoo taken . Success of captains Denison and Avery . Captain Wadsworth and his party slain ...
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... Reasons why the colony consented to such a settlement . Return of peace . The colony happy in the preservation of their frontiers . Towns settled un- der Massachusetts . State of the colony . Observations . CHAPTER XIX . Á VIEW of the ...
... Reasons why the colony consented to such a settlement . Return of peace . The colony happy in the preservation of their frontiers . Towns settled un- der Massachusetts . State of the colony . Observations . CHAPTER XIX . Á VIEW of the ...
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Page 546 - Day of April, in the fourth Year of our Reign of England, France, and Ireland, and of Scotland the nine and thirtieth.
Page 106 - And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him. Ye shall not respect persons in judgment ; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great : ye shall not be afraid of the face of man ; for the judgment is God's : and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.
Page 561 - Plantations, shall HAVE and enjoy all Liberties, Franchises and Immunities, within any of our other Dominions, to all Intents and Purposes, as if they had been abiding and born, within this our Realm of England, or any other of our said Dominions.
Page 498 - God, to order and dispose of the affairs of the people at all seasons as occasion shall require; do therefore associate and conjoin ourselves to be as one Public State or Commonwealth; and do for ourselves and our successors and such as shall be adjoined to us at any time hereafter, enter into Combination and Confederation together, to maintain and preserve the liberty and purity of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus which we now profess, as also, the discipline of the Churches, which according to the...
Page 105 - ... they held themselves bound to establish such civil order as might best conduce to the securing of the purity and peace of the ordinance to themselves and their posterity according to God...
Page 103 - No man's life shall be taken away, no man's honor or good name shall be stained, no man's person...
Page 550 - The Council established at Plymouth in the County of Devon, for the Planting, ruling, ordering and Governing of New England in America" and to them and their Successors grants all the lands, &c., Viz.
Page 554 - America, and to their successors and assigns for ever, all that part of America, lying and being in breadth, from forty degrees of northerly latitude from the equinoctial line, to forty-eight degrees of the said northerly latitude inclusively, and in length, of and within all the breadth aforesaid, throughout the main lands from sea to sea...
Page 498 - ... we the Inhabitants and Residents of Windsor, Hartford and Wethersfield are now cohabiting and dwelling in and upon the River of Connecticut and the lands thereunto adjoining; and well knowing where a people are gathered together the word of God requires that to maintain the peace and union of such a people there should be an orderly and decent Government established according to God...
Page 4 - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...