History of the Town of Plymouth, from Its First Settlement in 1620, to the Present Time: With a Concise History of the Aborigines of New England, and Their Wars with the English, &c |
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Alden Alexander Scammel ancestors anniversary appeared appointed arrived born Boston called Cape Cod Capt Carver celebrated chosen church civil Clark's Island command committee corn Cotton court daughter Davis Deacon death December descendants died Duxbury Edward Winslow elder England English Ephraim Morton erected fathers friends gentlemen Gideon White governor Bradford harbor honor Indians inhabitants Isaac James Warren John Howland John Winslow Jones's river Joseph Josiah King land laws Leyden liberty lived Lothrop March married Marshfield Mary Mary Howland Massachusetts Massasoit Mayflower meeting Memorial ment minister Nathaniel native occasion ordered parish pastor peace persons Pilgrim Society Plymouth colony pounds present Prince puritan religious resided respectable sachem Samuel selectmen settlers shallop shillings ship shore solemn sons Southworth Squanto suffered Thomas Thomas Hinckley tion town of Plymouth town-meeting venerable vessel voted Watson wife William Bradford
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Page 191 - For He •established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children : that the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born ; who should arise and declare them to their children : that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of •God, but keep His commandments...
Page 18 - Ireland, king, defender of the faith, &.c. having undertaken for the glory of God and advancement of the Christian faith and honor of our King and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia...
Page 270 - They shall call the people unto the mountain; There they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness : For they shall suck of the abundance of the seas, And of treasures hid in the sand.
Page 348 - The pilgrim exile — sainted name! The hill, whose icy brow Rejoiced, when he came, in the morning's flame, In the morning's flame burns now. And the moon's cold light as it lay that night On the hillside and the sea Still lies where he laid his houseless head; — But the pilgrim — where is he?
Page 18 - Virginia, do, by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God, and of one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation, and furtherance of the ends aforesaid, and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony, unto which we promise all due...
Page 128 - The Book of the General Laws Of the Inhabitants of the Jurisdiction of New-Plimouth...
Page 347 - THE Pilgrim Fathers, — where are they? The waves that brought them o'er Still roll in the bay, and throw their spray As they break along the shore; Still roll in the bay, as they rolled that day When the Mayflower moored below; When the sea around was black with storms, And white the shore with snow.
Page 18 - IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN. We whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread sovereign lord King James, by the grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, king, defender of the faith, etc.
Page 18 - King, defender of the faith, etc., having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our King and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of 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 138 - I think I can clearly say that before these present troubles broke out, the English did not possess one foot of land in this colony but what was fairly obtained by honest purchase of the Indian proprietors.