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Spicer (search for this): chapter 7
nd the unappropriated domain, with jurisdiction over the five thousand already planted on the soil, was pur- Leaming and Spicer's Grants, &c., of N. Jersey, 73. chased by an association of twelve Quakers, under the auspices of William Penn. A briefime the twelve proprietors selected each a partner; and, in March, 1683, to the twenty-four, among whom was Learning and Spicer, 141. the timorous, cruel, iniquitous Perth, afterwards chancellor of Scotland, and the amiable, learned, and ingenious Bw months as chief magistrate. When Campbell I am indebted to Garret D. Wall, of New Jersey, for a copy of Leaming and Spicer's Collection of Grants, &c, of New Jersey withdrew, the executive power, weakened by transfers, was intrusted Leaming and Spicer, 302. G. P. on Hist. of East Jersey. by him to Andrew Hamilton. The territory, easy of access from its extended seaboard, its bays and rivers, flanked on the west by the safe outposts of the peaceful Quakers, was the abode of peace and ab
Rogers (search for this): chapter 7
Nolumus leges Anglioe mutari blazed in golden letters on the standard of the rejoicing aristocracy, desiring to give immortality to their privileges. Humanity was present also, and rejoiced at the redemption of English liberties; she reproved the unnatural conduct of daughters who drove their father into poverty and exile; she sighed for the Roman Catholics who were oppressed, for the dissenters who were but tolerated; and as, on the evening of the long struggle which had been bequeathed by Rogers and Hooper, and had lasted more than a century and a half, she selected a restingplace, it was but to gather strength, with the fixed purpose of renewing her journey on the dawn of morning. The great news of the invasion of England, and the 1689 declaration of the prince of Orange, reached Boston on the fourth day of April, 1689. The messenger was immediately imprisoned; but his message could not be suppressed; and the preachers had already matured the evil design of a revolution. For
Jeffries (search for this): chapter 7
onfession of guilt; to excite suspicion was sentence of death; to own the covenant was treason. The houses of the victims were set on fire; their families shipped for the colonies. It never will be well with Scotland, till the country south of the Forth is reduced to a huntingfield. The remark is ascribed to James. I doubt not, sir, but to be able to propose a way how to gratifie all such as your majestie shall be pleased to thinke deserving of it, without touching your exchequer, wrote Jeffries to James II., just as he had passed sentence of transportation on hundreds of Monmouth's English followers. James II. sent the hint to the north, and in Scotland the business was equally well Understood. The indemnity proclaimed on the acces- 1685 sion of James II. was an act of delusive clemency. Chap. XVII.} 1685. Every day wretched fugitives were tried by a jury of soldiers, and executed in clusters on the highways; women, fastened to stakes beneath the sea-mark, were drowned by t
Lynde (search for this): chapter 7
command, that their several properties, according to their ancient records, should be granted them; the fee for the grants was the excuse for extortion. All Mather. the inhabitants, wrote Randolph, exultingly, must take new grants of their lands, which will bring in vast profits. Indeed, there was not money enough in the country to have paid the exorbitant fees which were demanded. The colonists pleaded their charter; but grants under the charter were declared void by its forfeiture.— Lynde, of Charlestown, produced an Indian deed. It was pronounced worth no more than the scratch of a bear's paw. Lands were held, not by a feudal tenure, but under grants from the general court to towns, and from towns to individuals. The town of Lynn produced its records; they were slighted as not worth a rush. Others pleaded possession and use of the land. You take possession, it was answered, for the king.—The men of Massachusetts did much quote Lord Coke; but, defeated in argument by An-
Effingham (search for this): chapter 7
English; and the deputies from the Mohawks and the three offending tribes, 1684 July 13. soon joined by the Senecas, met the governors of New York and Virginia at Albany. To the complaints and the pacific proposals of Lord Colden Howard of Effingham, Cadianne, the Mohawk orator, July 14 replied:— Sachem of Virginia, and you, Corlaer, sachem of New York, give ear, for we will not conceal the evil that has been done. The orator then rebuked the Oneidas, Onondagas, and Cayugas, for their want of faith, and gave them a belt of wampum, to quicken their memory. Then, turning to Effingham, he continued:— Great sachem of Virginia, these three beaver-skins are a token of our gladness that your heart is softened; these two of our joy, that the axe is to be buried. We are glad that you will bury in the pit what is past. Let the earth be trod hard over it; let a strong stream run under the pit, to wash the evil away out of our sight and remembrance, so that it never may be dig
George Carteret (search for this): chapter 7
is majesty's patent, though under the gieat seal, we dare not grant to be our rule or joint safety; for the great charter of England, alias Magna Charta, is the only rule, privilege, and joint safety of every free-born Englishman. Gordon's New Jersey, 47. The firmness of the legislature preserved the independence of New Jersey; the decision of Sir William Jones protected its people against arbitrary taxation; its prosperity sprung from the miseries of Scotland. The trustees of Sir George Carteret, tired of the burden of colonial property, exposed their province to sale; Chap. XVII.} 1682 Feb. 1 and 2. and the unappropriated domain, with jurisdiction over the five thousand already planted on the soil, was pur- Leaming and Spicer's Grants, &c., of N. Jersey, 73. chased by an association of twelve Quakers, under the auspices of William Penn. A brief account of the 1682 province was immediately published; and settlers were allured by a reasonable eulogy on its healthful clima
Waterhouse (search for this): chapter 7
morning of the 18th, just as April 18. George, the commander of the Rose frigate, stepped on shore, Green and the Boston ship-carpenters gathered about him, and made him a prisoner. The town took the alarm. The royalist sheriff endeavored to quiet the Chap XVII.} 1689 multitude; and at once the multitude arrested him. They next hastened to the major of the regiment, and demanded colors and drums. He resisted; they threatened. The crowd increased; companies form under Nelson, Foster, Waterhouse, their old officers; and already at ten they seize Bullivant, Foxcroft, and Ra- Lambeth Mss 1025 venscraft. Boys ran along the streets with clubs; the drums beat: the governor, with his creatures, resisted in council, withdrew to the fort to desire a conference with the ministers and two or three more. The conference was declined. All the companies soon rallied at the town-house. Just then, the last governor of the colony, in office when the charter was abrogated, Simon Bradstreet, gl
Allen (search for this): chapter 7
ched sedition, and planned resistance. Once at least, to the great anger of the governor, they put by thanksgiving; and at private Sewall, Mss. fasts they besought the Lord to repent himself for his servants, whose power was gone. The enlightened Moody refused to despair, confident that God would Chap XVII.} 1688 yet be exalted among the heathen. On the Lord's day, which was to have been the day of thanksgiving for the queen's pregnancy, the church was much grieved at the weakness of Allen, who, from the literal version of the improved Bay Psalm Book, gave out,— Jehovah, in thy strength And joy in thy salvation, Thou granted hast to him And thou hast not with holden back The king shall joyful be, How vehemently shall hee! That which his heart desired, That which his lips required. But Willard, while, before prayer, he read, among many other notices, the occasion of the governor's gratitude, and, after Puritan usage, interceded largely for the king, otherwise altered not hi
Jacob Leisler (search for this): chapter 7
d, May 9. in spite of the Finis of Andros, new chapters were begun in the records of freedom. Suffolk county, on Long Island, rejoined Connecticut. New York also shared the impulse, but with less unanimity. The Dutch plot was matured by Jacob Leisler, a man of energy, but passionate and ill-educated, and not possessed of that happy natural sagacity which elicits a rule of action from its own instincts. But the common people among the Dutch, led by Leisler and his son-in-law Milborne, inLeisler and his son-in-law Milborne, insisted on proclaiming the Chap XVII.} stadtholder king of England. In New Jersey there was no insurrection. The inhabitants were unwilling to invoke the interference of the proprietaries. There is no reason to doubt, that, in the several towns, officers were chosen, as before, by the inhabitants themselves, to regulate all local affairs; while the provincial government, as established by James II., fell with Andros. We have already seen 1689 that Maryland had also perfected a revolution
John Alden (search for this): chapter 7
y more, voted to reassume the old charter. Representatives were chosen; and once more Massachusetts assembled May 22 in general court. It is but a short ride from Boston to Plymouth. April 22. Already, on the twenty-second of April, Nathaniel Clark, the agent of Andros, was in jail; Hinckley resumed the government, and the children of the Pilgrims renewed the institution which had been unanimously signed in the Mayflower. But not one of the fathers of the old colony remained alive. John Alden, the last survivor of the signers, famed for his frugal habits, and an arm before which forests had bowed, was silent in death. The days of the Pilgrims were over, and a new generation possessed the soil. The royalists had pretended that the Quaker Lambeth Mss 841. grandees of Rhode Island had imbibed nothing of Quakerism but its indifference to forms, and did not even desire a restoration of the charter. On May-day, their May 1. usual election-day, the inhabitants and freemen poure
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