Chronicles of the First Planters of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, 1623-1636, Volume 41; Volume 49 |
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... thought good to pass into Mattachusets Bay , ' to try whether that would yield him any ; which he performed , and speeding there better than he had reason to expect , having left his spare men behind him in the country at Cape Anne , he ...
... thought good to pass into Mattachusets Bay , ' to try whether that would yield him any ; which he performed , and speeding there better than he had reason to expect , having left his spare men behind him in the country at Cape Anne , he ...
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... thought rea- sonable . But the same was after enlarged by his Majesty , and con- firmed under the great seal of Eng- land ; by the authority whereof the undertakers proceeded so effectually , that in a very short time numbers of people ...
... thought rea- sonable . But the same was after enlarged by his Majesty , and con- firmed under the great seal of Eng- land ; by the authority whereof the undertakers proceeded so effectually , that in a very short time numbers of people ...
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... thought fit that he should consider ' twixt this and to - morrow what to demand in case he do return presently with the ships he should take his passage in ; and what his demands would be if the Company should continue him there , and ...
... thought fit that he should consider ' twixt this and to - morrow what to demand in case he do return presently with the ships he should take his passage in ; and what his demands would be if the Company should continue him there , and ...
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... thought fit that twenty pounds should be paid him ; and this to be the Treasurer's warrant for payment thereof , upon his salary of £ 10 a year , for three years ; I say , twenty pounds , to be paid him pre- sently . This day being ...
... thought fit that twenty pounds should be paid him ; and this to be the Treasurer's warrant for payment thereof , upon his salary of £ 10 a year , for three years ; I say , twenty pounds , to be paid him pre- sently . This day being ...
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... thought by these present to entreat Mr. John Humfry to ride presently to Leicester , and , if Mr. Higgeson may conveniently be had to go this present voyage , that he should deal with him ; first , if his remove from thence may be ...
... thought by these present to entreat Mr. John Humfry to ride presently to Leicester , and , if Mr. Higgeson may conveniently be had to go this present voyage , that he should deal with him ; first , if his remove from thence may be ...
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Page 551 - After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity, dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.
Page 296 - ... where she specially resideth, without much sadness of heart, and many tears in our eyes; ever acknowledging that such hope and part as we have obtained in the common salvation, we have. received in her bosom, and sucked it from her breasts; we leave it not, therefore, as loathing that milk wherewith we were nourished there, but, blessing God for the parentage and education, as members of the same body, shall always rejoice in her good...
Page 67 - Court from time to time to make, ordain, and establish, all manner of wholesome and reasonable orders, laws, statutes and ordinances, directions and instructions, either with penalties or without, so as the same be not repugnant or contrary to this Constitution, as they shall judge to be for the good and welfare of this Commonwealth, and for the government and ordering thereof and of the subjects of the same...
Page 34 - Baptist, his harbinger; or, if he was ever there, had forgot his first lessons, to offer violence to no man, and to part with the cloak rather than needlessly contend for the coat, though taken away without order. A little chimney is soon fired; so was the Plymouth captain, a man of very little stature [ie short], yet of a very hot and angry temper.
Page 255 - Lincolnshire and the fens ; and they are nothing but gnats, which, except they be smoked out of their houses, are troublesome in the night season. Secondly, in the winter season, for two months' space, the earth is commonly covered with snow, which is accompanied with sharp biting frosts, something more sharp than is in Old England, and therefore are forced to make great fires.
Page 288 - Prayer and ceremonies, and had suffered much for their non-conformity in their native land ; and therefore being in a place where they might have their liberty, they neither could nor would use them, because they judged the imposition of these things to be sinful corruptions in the worship of God.
Page 28 - Name of the Council Established at Plymouth in the County of Devon, for the Planting, Ruling, Ordering and Governing of New England in America...
Page 296 - ... we desire you would be pleased to take notice of the principals and body of our company, as those who esteem it our honor to call the Church of England, from whence we rise, our dear mother ; and cannot part from our native country, where she specially resideth, without much sadness of heart, and many tears in our eyes...
Page 232 - By noon we were within three leagues of Cape Ann ; and as we sailed along the coasts, we saw every hill and dale and every island full of gay woods and high trees. The nearer we came to the shore, the more flowers in abundance, sometimes scattered abroad, sometimes joined in sheets nine or ten yards long, which we supposed to be brought from the low meadows by the tide. Now...
Page 30 - Some of the discreeter sort, to avoid what they found themselves subject unto, made use of their friends to procure from the Council for the affairs of New England to settle a colony within their limits...