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Cambridge platform.
The second Synod of Massachusetts met at Cambridge in 1646, and was not dissolved until 1648.
The synod composed and adopted a system of church discipline called The Cambridge platform, and recommended it, together with the Westminster Confession of Faith, to the general court and to the churches.
The latter, in New England, generally complied with the recommendation, and The Cambridge platform, with the ecclesiastical laws, formed the theological constitution of the New England colonies.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cheeshahteaumuck , Caleb 1646 -1666 (search)
Cheeshahteaumuck, Caleb 1646-1666
Indian; born in Massachusetts in 1646; graduated at Harvard College in 1665, being the only Indian who received a degree from that institution.
He died in Charlestown, Mass., in 1666.
Cheeshahteaumuck, Caleb 1646-1666
Indian; born in Massachusetts in 1646; graduated at Harvard College in 1665, being the only Indian who received a degree from that institution.
He died in Charlestown, Mass., in 1666.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cromwell the buccaneer. (search)
Cromwell the buccaneer.
One of the earliest of the famous buccaneers was Captain Cromwell, who had been a common sailor in New England.
In 1646 he was in command of three fast-sailing brigantines, filled with armed men, and was driven into the harbor of New Plymouth by a storm.
Cromwell, under the authority of a sort of second-hand commission from High-Admiral (Earl of) Warwick, had captured in the West Indies several richly laden Spanish vessels.
These freebooters spent money freely at Plymouth.
Cromwell and his men soon afterwards went to Boston, where he lodged with a poor man who had helped him when he was poor, and gave him generous compensation.
Winthrop, who had lately been re-elected governor, received from this freebooter an elegant sedan-chair captured in one of his prizes, designed as a gift by the viceroy of Mexico to his sister.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Denison , Daniel ,1613 -1682 (search)
Denison, Daniel, 1613-1682
Military officer; born in England in 1613; settled in New England about 1631; was commissioner to arrange the differences with D'Aulny, the French commander at Penobscot, in 1646 :and 1653; and later was major-general of the colonial forces for ten years. He was made commander-in-chief of the Massachusetts troops in 1675, but owing to illness during that year was not able to lead his forces in the Indian War. He published Irenicon, or salve for New England's sore.
He died in Ipswich, Mass., Sept. 20, 1682.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Jesuit missions. (search)
Jogues, Isaac 1607-
Missionary; born at Orleans, France, Jan. 10, 1607; became a Jesuit at Rouen in 1624; was ordained in 1636; and, at his own request, was immediately sent to Canada.
He was a most earnest missionary among the Indians on both sides of the Lakes.
Caught, tortured, and made a slave by the Mohawks, he remained with them until 1643, when he escaped to Albany, and was taken to Manhattan.
Returning to Europe, he was shipwrecked on the English coast.
He returned to Canada in 1646, where he concluded a treaty between the French and the Mohawks.
Visiting Lake George, he named it St. Sacrament, and, descending the Hudson River to Albany, he went among the Mohawks as a missionary, who seized and put him to death as a sorcerer, at Caughnawaga, N. Y., Oct. 18, 1646.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Navigation acts. (search)
Navigation acts.
The first navigation act that affected the American colonies was an ordinance of the British Parliament in 1646, by which all goods, merchandise, and necessaries for the English-American plantations were exempted from duty for three years, on condition that no colonial vessel be suffered to lade any goods of the growth of the plantations and carry them to a foreign port, excepting in English bottoms.
The preamble to the ordinance mentioned Virginia, Bermudas, Barbadoes, and other places of America.
In 1663 Parliament passed an act for securing the monopoly of the trade of the English-American colonies for the benefit of the English shipping interest, then a powerful factor in politics.
It prohibited the importation into any of the English colonies of any commodities of the growth, production, and manufacture of Europe, unless they were shipped from the British Islands in English-built vessels.
For the enforcement of the navigation acts courts of vice-admir