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Casco Bay (Maine, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
the proprietaries in England were urged before Cromwell, many inhabitants of the towns of York, Kittery, Wells, Saco, and 1656 Cape Porpoise, yet not a majority, remonstrated on the ground of former experience. To sever them from Massachusetts would be to them the subverting of all civil order. Documents in Maine Hist Coll. 296. 299. Ms. Letter of Geo. Folsom. Thus did Massachusetts, following the most favorable interpretation of its charter, extend its frontier to the islands in Casco Bay. It was equally successful in maintaining its independence of the Long Parliament; though the circumstances of the contest were fatal to the immediate assertion of the liberty of conscience. With the increase of English freedom, the dangers 1644 which had menaced Massachusetts appeared to pass away; its government began to adventure on a more lenient policy; the sentence of exile against Wheelwright was rescinded; a proposition was made to extend the franchises of the company to those
Hartford (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
e upon us. It might prove very prejudicial to us. When the letters arrived, inviting the colonial churches to send their deputies to the West minster assembly of divines, the same sagacity led them to neglect the summons. Especially Hooker, of Hartford, liked not the business and deemed it his duty rather to stay in quite and obscurity with his people in Connecticut, than to turn propogandist, and plead for Independency in England. Yet such commercial advantages were desired, as might be obta certain prey to his vengeance. By the laws of Indian warfare the fate of the captive was death. Yet Gorton and his friends, who held their lands by a grant from Miantonomoh, Interceded for their benefactor. The unhappy chief was conducted to Hartford; and the wavering Uncas, who had the strongest claims to the gratitude and protection of the English, II. Mass. H. C. VIII. 137.141. asked the advice of the commissioners of the United Colonies. Murder had ever been severely punished by the
Manhattan, Riley County, Kansas (Kansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
union, would never have maintained their existence as a separate state, had they not sought the interference and protection of the mother country; and the founder of the colony was chosen to conduct 1643 the important mission. Embarking at Manhattan, he arrived in England not long after the death of Hampden. The parliament had placed the affairs of the American colonies under the control of Warwick, as governor-in-chief, assisted by a council of five peers and twelve commoners. Hazard,hat it was safest for the colonies to forbear the use of the sword, but to be in a posture of defence. The nature of the reserved powers of the members of the union now became the subject of animated discussion; but a peaceful intercourse with Manhattan continued. Hazard, II., has all the documents on this subject The European republics had composed their strife, 1654 before the fleet, which was designed to take possession of the settlements on the Hudson, reached the shores of America
Ipswich, Mass. (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
if established as regular statutes, might be censured by their enemies as repugnant to the laws of England, had not been very forward to adopt the model which Cotton had elaborately prepared and justified in all its parts by apposite texts of scripture. Now that the causes of apprehension were suspended, the great work of constitutional legislation was resumed; and in December, 1641, a session of three weeks was employed in considering a system which had been prepared by Nathaniel Ward, of Ipswich. As the author of the fundamental code, he is the most remarkable among all the early legislators of Massachusetts; he had been formerly a student and practiser in the courts of common law in England, but became a nonconforming minister; so that he was competent to Chap. X.} combine the humane doctrines of the common law with the principles of natural right and equality, as deduced from the Bible. After mature deliberation, his model, which for its liberality and comprehensiveness may v
Rhode Island (Rhode Island, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
i. No. 17. and the request of the island of Rhode Island was equally rejected, because it would not printed Indian labors of Roger Williams, Rhode Island Hist. Coll. i. the like whereof was not extrliament, and especially to Sir Henry Vane, Rhode Island owes its existence as a political state. sure to find them again in some village of Rhode Island. All men were equal; all might meet and deharter and union of what now forms the state of Rhode Island confirmed. The general assembly, in i Henry Vane. Under God, the sheet-anchor of Rhode Island was Sir Henry. Backus, i. 286. But for him, Rhode Island would perhaps have been divided among Chap. X.} 1654. Aug. 27. its neighbors. Fren Clarke, the pure and tolerant Baptist of Rhode Island, one of the happy few who succeed in acquirer was claimed by her husband, and taken to Rhode Island; the latter was sent to England. A woman wn practice the code of Moses; the island of Rhode Island enacted for a year or two a Jewish masquera[2 more...]
Dorchester, Mass. (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
estate, and of a liberal spirit, in that same year embarked for Boston with fonts of letters for Chap. X.} printing, and a printer. He died on the passage; but in 1639, Stephen Daye, the printer, printed the Freeman's Oath, and an Almanac calculated for New England; and in 1640, for the edification and comfort of the saints, the Psalms,—faithfully but rudely translated in metre from the Hebrew by Thomas Welde and John Eliot, ministers of Roxbury, assisted by Richard Mather, minister of Dorchester,—were published in a volume of three hundred octavo pages, the first ever printed in America, north of the Gulf of Mexico. In temporal affairs, plenty prevailed throughout the settlements, and affluence came in the train of industry. The natural exports of the country were furs and lumber; grain was carried to the West Indies; fish also was a staple. The art of shipbuilding was introduced with the first emigrants for Salem; but Winthrop had with him William Stephens, a shipwright who
Portsmouth (New Hampshire, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
umpires. The cause was learnedly argued in Boston, and the decree of the court was oracular. Neither party was allowed to have a clear right; and both were enjoined to live in peace. But how could Vines and Cleaves assert their authority? On the death of Gorges, the people repeatedly wrote to his heirs. No answer was received; and such commissioners as had authority from 1647-8 Europe gradually withdrew. There was no relief for the colonists but in themselves; and the inhabitants of Piscataqua, Gorgeana, and Wells, following the 1649. July American precedent, with free and unanimous consent i. Mass. Hist Coll. i. 103. formed themselves into a body politic for the purpose of self-government. Massachusetts readily offered its protection. The great charter of the Bay company 1652 May 30. was unrolled before the general court in Boston, and, upon perusal of the instrument, it was voted, that this jurisdiction extends from the northernmost part of the River Merrimack, and th
Department de Ville de Paris (France) (search for this): chapter 14
and character of New England. Every child, as it was born into the world, was lifted from the earth by the genius of the country, and, in the statutes of the land, received, as its birthright, a pledge of the public care for its morals and its mind. There are some who love to enumerate the singu- Chap. X.} larities of the early Puritans. They were opposed to wigs; they could preach against veils; they denounced long hair; they disliked the cross in the banner, as much as the people of Paris disliked the lilies of the Bourbons, and for analogous reasons. They would not allow Christmas day to be kept sacred; they called neither months, nor days, nor seasons, nor churches, nor inns, by the names common in England; they revived Scripture names at christenings. The grave Romans legislated on the costume of men, and their senate could even stoop to interfere with the triumphs of the sex to which civic honors are denied; the fathers of New England prohibited frivolous fashions in th
Barbados (Barbados) (search for this): chapter 14
other to be found in the kingdom. In New England he lived with great content, where, from the time of his arrival, shipbuilding was carried on with surpassing skill, so that vessels were soon constructed of four hundred tons. So long as the ports were filled with new comers, the domestic consumption had required nearly all the produce of the colony. But now, supplies from England failing much, men began to look about them, and fell to a manufacture of cotton whereof they had store from Barbadoes Chap. X.} In view of the exigency, the general court made Order for the manufacture of woollen and linen cloth. The Long Parliament, which met in 1641 contamied among its members many sincere favorers of the Puritan plantations. But the English in America with wise circumspection feared to endanger their legislative independence. Upon the great liberty which the king had left the parliament in England, says Winthrop, some of our friends there wrote to us advice to solicit for us in t
Israel (Israel) (search for this): chapter 14
. All the ministers assembled at Boston; it 1635 Jan. 19. marks the age, that their opinions were consulted; it marks the age still more, that they unanimously declared against the reception of a general governor. We ought, said the fathers in Israel, to defend our lawful possessions, if we are able; if not, to avoid and protract. Winthrop, i 154. It is not strange that Laud and his associates should have esteemed the inhabitants of Massachusetts to be men of refractory humors; complaillanage, or captivity amongst us, unless it be lawful captives taken in just wars, and such strangers as willingly sell themselves or are sold to us; and these shall have all the liberties and Christian usages which the law of God, established in Israel concerning such persons, doth morally require. The severity of the Levitical law against witchcraft, blasphemy, and sins against nature, was retained; otherwise, death was the punishment only for murder, adultery, manstealing, and false witnes
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