History of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647, Volume 1Massachusetts Historical Society, 1912 - History |
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... Company . Permission of the King . Letter of Sir Edwin Sandys . Reply to Robinson and Brewster . Letter and notes to Sir John Wolstenholme . Letter from Sabine Staresmore . Robert Cushman on dissension in the Virginia Company ...
... Company . Permission of the King . Letter of Sir Edwin Sandys . Reply to Robinson and Brewster . Letter and notes to Sir John Wolstenholme . Letter from Sabine Staresmore . Robert Cushman on dissension in the Virginia Company ...
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... company and final departure of one ship . Cushman turns back . His letter to Southworth · · 121 · 137 CHAP . IX . Incidents of the voyage . Death of a profane young man . Bowing of a main beam . Experience of John Howland . Death of ...
... company and final departure of one ship . Cushman turns back . His letter to Southworth · · 121 · 137 CHAP . IX . Incidents of the voyage . Death of a profane young man . Bowing of a main beam . Experience of John Howland . Death of ...
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... COMPANY OF VIRGINIA , 1610. P. R. O. LETTER OF CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH , original in Dorchester House , London . Seal of the LONDON COMPANY OF VIRGINIA . From the title - page of Smith's Generall Historie , 1626 · 65 • 67 · 69 SEVEN ARTICLES ...
... COMPANY OF VIRGINIA , 1610. P. R. O. LETTER OF CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH , original in Dorchester House , London . Seal of the LONDON COMPANY OF VIRGINIA . From the title - page of Smith's Generall Historie , 1626 · 65 • 67 · 69 SEVEN ARTICLES ...
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... company of English people that came over together out of the north parts with me I affirme thus much : That I never received of them all put to- gether the value of forty shillings , to my knowledge since I came out of England . " Smyth ...
... company of English people that came over together out of the north parts with me I affirme thus much : That I never received of them all put to- gether the value of forty shillings , to my knowledge since I came out of England . " Smyth ...
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... company must have included between four and five hundred individ- uals . The list could not be complete from the many difficulties offered by the records ; but accepting it as it is , the compilers made the following summaries : the ...
... company must have included between four and five hundred individ- uals . The list could not be complete from the many difficulties offered by the records ; but accepting it as it is , the compilers made the following summaries : the ...
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Page 191 - 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 155 - Being thus passed the vast ocean, and a sea of troubles...
Page 122 - Lord had appointed it or not, he charged us before God and his blessed angels, to follow him no further than he followed Christ ; and if God should reveal anything to us by any other instrument of his, to be as ready to receive it as ever we were to receive any truth by his ministry ; for he was very confident the Lord had more truth and light yet to break forth out of his holy word.
Page 105 - ... 4. That at their coming there, they shall choose out such a number of fit persons, as may furnish their ships and boats, for fishing upon the sea; employing the rest, in their several faculties, upon the land; as building houses, tilling and planting the ground, and making such commodities as shall be most useful for the colony.
Page 79 - I do declare that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, preeminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm : So help me God.
Page 156 - Pisgah to view from this wilderness a more goodly country to feed their hopes; for which way soever they turned their eyes (save upward to the heavens) they could have little solace or content in respect of any outward objects. For summer being done, all things stand upon them with a weatherbeaten face, and the whole country, full of woods and thickets, represented a wild and savage hue.
Page 194 - And of these, in the time of most distress, there was but six or seven sound persons who to their great commendations, be it spoken, spared no pains night nor day, but with abundance of toil and hazard of their own health, fetched them wood, made them fires, dressed them meat, made their beds, washed their loathsome clothes, clothed and unclothed them.
Page 215 - Afterwards they (as many as were able) began to plant ther corne, in which servise Squanto stood them in great stead, showing them both the maner how to set it, and after how to dress and tend it.
Page 55 - Lastly (and which was not least), a great hope and inward zeal they had of laying some good foundation, or at least to make some way thereunto, for the propagating and advancing the gospel of the kingdom of Christ in those remote parts of the world; yea, though they should be but even as stepping-stones unto others for the performing of so great a work.
Page 322 - And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.