 | Rhode Island Historical Society - 1872 - 684 pages
...adoption of these resolutions, Governor Joseph Wanton, thrn "Captain General and Commander-in-Chief over the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in New England in America," issued a commission to Messrs. Hopkins and Ward, authorizing and empowering them " to repair to the... | |
 | Rhode Island Historical Society - 1872 - 512 pages
...adoption of these resolutions, Governor Joseph Wanton, th- n "Captain General and Commander-in-Chief over the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in New England in America," issued a commission to Messrs. Hopkins and Ward, authorizing and empowering them "to repair to the... | |
 | John Gorham Palfrey - 1873 - 450 pages
...created " a body corporate and politic, in fact and name, by the name of the Governor and Company of the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in New England in America." Similar to the charter of Connecticut in grants marked by a liberality hitherto unexampled, it added... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1873 - 786 pages
...crown.3 § 96. That charter incorporated the inhabitants by the name of the Governor and Company of the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in New England in America, conferring on them the usual powers of corporations. The executive power was lodged in a governor,... | |
 | 1873 - 812 pages
...necessary money was raised, and a charter obtained in February, 1764, " for a college or university in the English colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, in New England, in America." One of the provisions of this charter is as follows: "And furthermore, it is hereby enacted and declared,... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1873 - 1484 pages
...necessary money was raised, and a charter obtained in February, 1764, " for a college or university in the English colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, in New England, in America." One of the provisions of this charter is as follows: "And furthermore, it is hereby enacted and declared,... | |
 | John Russell Smith - 1874 - 258 pages
...RHODE ISLAND.—The Charter granted by His Majesty King Charles II, to the Governor and Company of the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in New England in America (with the Laws). Folio, fine clean copy in calf neat. £5. 5s Newport, Rhode Island, 1744 1995 RIBADENEYRA... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - 1876 - 536 pages
...Wno produced the following appointment, viz : By the honorable SAMUEL WARD, governor, captain general and commander-in-chief of and over the English colony...Providence Plantations in New England in America. To Metcalf Bowler and to Henry Ward, esquires, GREETING : Whereas, the general assembly of this province... | |
 | George Washington Greene - 1877 - 406 pages
...hereafter, a body corporate and politic, in fact and name, by the name of the Governor and Company of the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, in New England, in America; and that, by the same name, they and their successors shall and may have perpetual succession, and shall... | |
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England, shall be, from time to time, and forever hereafter, a body corporate and politic, in fact and name, by the name of the Governor and Company of the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, in New England, in America... 
