A Compendious History of New England: From the Discovery by Europeans to the First General Congress of the Anglo-American Colonies, Volume 1 |
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... fishing grounds of America had now at- tracted attention and enterprise . Hundreds of French , English , Portuguese , and Spanish fishing- vessels met on the banks of Newfoundland . At length , in the reign of Queen Elizabeth , the ...
... fishing grounds of America had now at- tracted attention and enterprise . Hundreds of French , English , Portuguese , and Spanish fishing- vessels met on the banks of Newfoundland . At length , in the reign of Queen Elizabeth , the ...
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... fish called a stingray he received a wound which threatened to be fatal , and his companions dug a grave for his burial . But one of them produced a " precious oil , " which effected so speedy a cure that at night he ate a piece of the ...
... fish called a stingray he received a wound which threatened to be fatal , and his companions dug a grave for his burial . But one of them produced a " precious oil , " which effected so speedy a cure that at night he ate a piece of the ...
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... fish and of aquatic plants and insects . Various species of the plover and of other birds of passage haunt the meadows and the marshes . The wild turkey , now rarely seen , throve on berries in the woods . The quail and the red ...
... fish and of aquatic plants and insects . Various species of the plover and of other birds of passage haunt the meadows and the marshes . The wild turkey , now rarely seen , throve on berries in the woods . The quail and the red ...
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... fish , covered over in the hill along with the seed . When the growth of corn was sufficiently advanced , earth was ... fishing were made of twisted fibres of the dogbane , or of sinews of the deer . The scoop - net , the cylindrical ...
... fish , covered over in the hill along with the seed . When the growth of corn was sufficiently advanced , earth was ... fishing were made of twisted fibres of the dogbane , or of sinews of the deer . The scoop - net , the cylindrical ...
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... fish , there to be struck by a spear , were devices used in fishing . Hooks were fashioned of sharpened bones of fishes and birds . Arrows and spears were also tipped with bone , or with claws of birds of the larger species , or with ...
... fish , there to be struck by a spear , were devices used in fishing . Hooks were fashioned of sharpened bones of fishes and birds . Arrows and spears were also tipped with bone , or with claws of birds of the larger species , or with ...
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Page 111 - The Humble Request of His Majesty's Loyall Subjects, the Governor and the Company late gone for New England; to the rest of their Brethren in and of the Church of England...
Page 259 - WHEREAS we all came into these parts of America with one and the same end and aim, namely, to advance the kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to enjoy the liberties- of the gospel in purity with peace...
Page 166 - We whose names are hereunder, desirous to inhabit in the town of Providence, do promise to subject ourselves in active or passive obedience to all such orders or agreements as shall be made for public good of the body, in an orderly way, by the major assent of the present inhabitants, masters of families, incorporated together into a town fellowship, and such others whom they shall admit unto them, only in civil things.
Page 280 - No man's life shall be taken away; no man's honor or good name shall be stained ; no man's person shall be arrested, restrained, banished, dismembered, nor any...
Page 61 - 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 submission and obedience.
Page 111 - ... fountains of tears for your everlasting welfare when we shall be in our poor cottages in the wilderness, overshadowed with the spirit of supplication, through the manifold necessities and tribulations which may not altogether unexpectedly, nor, we hope, unprofitably, befall us.
Page 61 - 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...
Page 263 - ... the United Colonies of New England. 2. The said United Colonies for themselves and their posterities do jointly and severally hereby enter into a firm and perpetual league of friendship and amity for offence and defence, mutual advice and succor upon all just occasions both for preserving and propagating the truth and liberties of the Gospel and for their own mutual safety and welfare.
Page 112 - For the work we have in hand, it is by mutual consent, through a special overruling providence and a more than an ordinary approbation of the churches of Christ, to seek out a place of cohabitation and consortship, under a due form of government both civil and ecclesiastical.
Page 121 - To the end the body of the commons may be preserved of honest and good men, it was ordered and agreed, that, for the time to come, no man shall be admitted to the freedom of this body politic, but such as are members of some of the churches within the limits of the same.