 | Charles Evans - 1922 - 92 էջ
...hereunder, desirous to inhabit in the town of Providence, do promise to subject ourselves in active and passive obedience to all such orders or agreements...public good of the body in an orderly way, by the major consent of present inhabitants, masters of families, incorporated together in a Towne fellowship, and... | |
 | James Truslow Adams - 1921 - 538 էջ
...organization, until four years later. The agreement was merely to yield obedience to such orders " as shall be made for public good of the body in an orderly way, by the major consent of the pres1 Williams's answer to the charges of Harris, in Rider, Rhode Island Tracts, N0.... | |
 | Breckinridge Long - 1926 - 280 էջ
...being desirous to inhabit the town of Providence, do promise to submit ourselves in active or inactive obedience to all such orders or agreements as shall be made for the good of the body, in an orderly way, by the major consent of the present inhabitants, masters of... | |
 | Rhode Island Historical Society - 1838 - 396 էջ
...all new comers promised " to submit themselves in active or passive obedienec to all such orders and agreements as shall be made for public good of the body, in an orderly way, by *The three elders were Nicholas Easton, John Coggeshall, and William Brenton. f The six gentlemen were W.... | |
 | William McLoughlin - 1986 - 276 էջ
...his conscience." They also signed a simple statement saying "we do promise to subject ourselves ... to all such orders or agreements as shall be made...public good of the body in an orderly way by the major consent," but "only in civil things." 9 However, town meeting majorities can govern effectively only... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson - 1993 - 470 էջ
...names are hereunder written, being desirous to inhabit in the town of Providence, do promise to submit ourselves, in active or passive obedience, to all...good of the body, in an orderly way, by the major consent of the present inhabitants, masters of families incorporated together into a township, and... | |
 | Timothy Hall, Timothy L. Hall - 1998 - 220 էջ
...signed one in 1638. 4 By this compact, each member of the settlement promised to submit "in active and passive obedience to all such orders or agreements as shall be made for the public good of the body in an orderly way, by the major consent of the present inhabitants . .... | |
 | Isaac Backus, David Weston - 2001 - 564 էջ
...names are here underwritten being desirous to inhabit in the town of Providence, do promise to submit ourselves in active or passive obedience to all such...public good of the body in an orderly way, by the major consent of the present inhabitants, masters of families, incorporated together into a township, and... | |
 | William Cathcart - 2001 - 502 էջ
...was entered into and signed at Providence, by which its people " subjected themselves in active and passive obedience to all such orders or agreements...public good of the body in an orderly way, by the major consent of the present inhabitants, masters of families, incorporated together in a Town fellowship,... | |
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We, whose names are here under-written, being desirous to inhabit in the town of Providence, do promise to submit 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,... 
