Mayflower Compact (November 11, 1620) was America's first great governmental document, signed by the Pilgrims before they disembarked from their ship, the Mayflower. This covenant, revolutionary in its concept of individuals…
Plymouth Council Charter (November 3, 1620) granted by King James I (1566-1625), declared the purpose of the colony: <James, by the Grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland,…
Virginia Charter of Berkeley Hundred (December 4, 1619) Charter for 38 colonists who landed at a place they called Berkeley Hundred: 1619VA003 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All…
Virginia House of Burgesses (August 4, 1619) narrative of Jamestown: <All ministers shall duly read Divine service, and exercise their ministerial function according to the Ecclesiastical laws and orders of the…
Virginia House of Burgesses (July 30, 1619) narrative of Speaker of the House, John Pory: <But, forasmuch as men's affairs do little prosper when God's service is neglected, all the Burgesses…
Charter of New England Petition (March 3, 1619) Petition for Charter of New England by the Northern Company of Adventurers: <May it please your most excellent Majesty...to give license for…
Pilgrim Articles (1618) sent by Pilgrim leaders John Robinson and William Brewster to the Counsel of England requestion approval to settle in Virginia: <Article III. The King's Majesty we acknowledge for…
Richard Baxter (November 12, 1615-December 8, 1691) was an English nonconformist chaplain and scholar. In his work, Poetical Fragments-Love Breathing Thanks and Praise, 1681, Richard Baxter wrote: <I preached as never…
Charter granted by United Netherlands (March 27, 1614) for those who discover any new passages, havens or places: <The States-General of the United Netherlands...Greeting... Whereas...it would be honorable...that the good inhabitants…
New Netherlands History (1613) from The Original 13-A Documentary History of Religion in America's First Thirteen States (Amerisearch, Inc., 2009): <New York was originally New Netherlands, founded by the Dutch in…
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