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aforesaid appear Assembly Bartlett's Benedict Arnold bounds Canonicus century Chad Brown charter chief claimed colony common conscience consent controversy corporation court cove dence desired dividend Early Records England equal fellowship of vote freemen Gorton granted Gregory Dexter hath homesteads Indian inhabitants Initial deed John Clawson John Whipple Kingsmen landholders lands liams Massachusetts meadow Miantonomi Mooshassuc Narragansett Newport party Pawtuxet Plantations political prietors Proprie Proprietors purchase Quarter day Records of Providence religious Rhode Island Rider's Hist river Roger Williams Sachems seems settlers seven mile line seven-mile share small freeholders society Sovereign Plaister streams without limits surveyors swine thatch beds Thomas Olney timber tion town book town clerk town fellowship town meeting Town of Providence town records town street town's townsmen Tract twenty-five acre unto Verin voluntary association whole William Harris Williams's letter Winthrop ye Towne
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Էջ 21 - 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.
Էջ 11 - Holliman and such others as the major part of us shall admit into the same fellowship of vote with us...
Էջ 7 - The condition of myself and those few families here planting with me, you know full well: we have no Patent: nor doth the face of Magistracy suit with our present condition. Hitherto, the masters of families...
Էջ 30 - England, established in this colony, according to our charter, and to all such wholesome laws and orders that are or shall be made by the major consent of...
Էջ 4 - Connecticut, and Apaum, or Plymouth, we do freely give unto him all that land from those rivers reaching to Pawtuxet river ; as also the grass and meadows upon the said Pawtuxet river. In witness whereof, we have hereunto set our hands.
Էջ 14 - Providence (for then that monstrous bound or business of " up streams without limits" was not thought of). W. Harris & the first twelve of Providence were restless for Pawtuxet, & I parted with it upon the same terms, viz. for the supply of the destitute, & I had a loan of them (then dear), when these twelve men, (out of pretence of conscience & my desire of peace) had gotten the *This will be mentioned again.
Էջ 30 - Wee whose Names are heere after subscribed having obteyned a free Grante of Twenty five Akers of Land a peece with Right of Commoning, according to the said proportion of Land...
Էջ 11 - Moosehasick and the grounds and meadows thereupon, in consideration of thirty pounds, received from the inhabitants of the said place, do freely and fully pass grant and make over equal right and power of enjoying and disposing the same...
Էջ 104 - Indians : and whereas the lands of the several towns of Newport, Providence, Portsmouth, Warwick and Westerly, were purchased by the several inhabitants thereof of the native Indians, chief sachems of the country, before the granting of the said charter, so that an order or direction from the said assembly could not be obtained...
Էջ 66 - Dexter's* three proposals for peace and accommodation ? Were they not honest, equal and peaceable to any that minded not their own cabins more than the common good of our poor tossed Barke & vessell?" Williams had ample opportunity to observe the temper of his fellow-townsmen as this new documeut circulated among them. (p. 37.) "Our peace was like ye peace of a man which hath a tertian ague. Every other day yea sometimes every meeting we were all on fire, and had a terrible burning fit, ready to...