Connecticut as a Colony and as a State: Or, One of the Original Thirteen, Volume 1

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Forrest Morgan, Samuel Hart, Jonathan Trumbull, Frank R. Holmes, Ellen Strong Bartlett
Publishing Society of Connecticut, 1904
 

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Page 240 - were given the irrevocable privileges of being "one body corporate and politic in fact and name, by the name of the Governor and Company of the English Colony of Connecticut in New England in America, and that by the same name they and their successors should have perpetual succession.
Page 389 - No one shall read Common Prayer, keep Christmas or Saints' days, make minced pies, dance, play cards, or play on any instrument of music except the drum, trumpet, and jews' harp.
Page 35 - issued a patent in the spring of 1496 authorizing Cabot and his three sons "to sail to all parts, countrys and seas of the East, of the West, and of the North
Page 166 - as the choice of magistrates and officers, making and repealing laws, dividing allotments of inheritance, and all things of like nature, they would all of them be ordered by the rules which the Scriptures held forth to them.
Page 413 - faith owned and consented to by the elders and messengers of the churches in the colony of Connecticut, assembled by delegation at Saybrook Sept. 9, 1708, and confirmed by
Page 475 - Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt; thou hast cast out the heathen and planted it.
Page 91 - remain to the English there. And it is agreed that the aforesaid bounds and limits, both upon the island and main, shall be observed and kept inviolable, both by the English of the United Colonies, and all the Dutch nation, without any encroachment or molestation, until a full and final
Page 91 - belong to the English, and the Westermost to the Dutch." "II. The bounds upon the main to begin at the west side of Greenwich Bay, being about four miles from Stamford, and so to run, a northerly line twenty miles up into the country, and after as it shall be agreed, by the two governments of the Dutch and New Haven, provided the said line

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