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adventurers aforesaid Allerton appointed Barnes Benjamin Benjamin Warren born in Plymouth Boston Brewster brook Burial Hill called Capt Carver Charles church Churchill Clark Cobb corp council Court Cushman died Doten Dunham Duxbury Ebenezer Edward Winslow England enlisted Ephraim Morton Faunce Finney George Gideon White Governor granted harbor Harlow Harvard heirs and successors Henry Holmes hundred inhabitants Isaac Jackson James Warren John Dyer John Howland John Torrey Joshua jurisdiction King laborer land laws Lazarus Le Baron Lemuel Leyden lieut Lothrop Massachusetts Mayflower miles Nathaniel Morton Old Colony pastor patent persons Pilgrim Society Pilgrims plantation Plym Plymouth Colony Pond Regt Rhode Island river Robbins Robert Russell Sampson Samuel Samuel Fuller sergt shoemaker South Southworth Standish Stephen Street thence thereof Thomas Mayhew tion town of Plymouth unto Watson wife William Bradford William Brewster William Davis Zabdiel Sampson
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Page 19 - ... 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 submission and obedience.
Page 19 - 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 - Day of April, in the fourth Year of our Reign of England, France, and Ireland, and of Scotland the nine and thirtieth.
Page 17 - 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 139 - Name of the Council Established at Plymouth in the County of Devon, for the Planting, Ruling, Ordering and Governing of New England in America...
Page 72 - Company, and their successors for ever, to be holden of us, our heirs and successors, as of our manor of East Greenwich, in our County of Kent, in free and common soccage, and not in capite...
Page 146 - Warwick and others, to the number of forty noblemen, knights and gentlemen, by the name 'of the Council established at Plymouth in the county of Devon, for the planting, ruling and governing of New England in America...
Page 141 - ... grounds, havens, ports, rivers, waters, fishings, mines, and minerals, as well royal mines of gold and silver, as other mines and minerals...
Page 31 - Common Course and Condition"] All this while no supply was heard of, neither knew they when they might expect any. So they began to think how they might raise as much corn as they could, and obtain a better crop than they had done, that they might not still thus languish in misery.
Page 140 - The Council established at Plymouth in the County of Devon, for the Planting, ruling, ordering and Governing of New England in America" and to them and their Successors grants all the lands, &c., Viz.