History of the City of New York in the Seventeenth Century, Volume 2Macmillan, 1909 - New York (N.Y.) |
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Page 514 - I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
Page 541 - The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth. 3 Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.
Page 4 - All Ships from the Netherlands, or any other Place, and Goods therein, shall be received here, and sent hence, after the manner which formerly they were, before our coming hither, for six Months next ensuing.
Page 248 - ... unless by the lawful judgment of his peers and by the law of the land.
Page 246 - That the people are, under God, the original of all just power; that the Commons of England, in Parliament assembled, being chosen by and representing the people, have the supreme power in this nation...
Page 123 - A Brief Description of NEW YORK ; Formerly Called New Netherlands. With the Places thereunto Adjoyning. Together with the Manner of its Scituation, Fertility of the Soyle, Healthfullness of the Climate, and the Commodities thence produced.
Page 414 - Esq., or, in his absence, to such as for the time being take care for preserving the peace and administering the laws in their Majesties' province of New York, in America.
Page 118 - Undrill,' saying that he was one of the 'right New England military worthies' whose names were ignored by the chroniclers of New England; they had not once mentioned him although their ' twelve-penny chronicle' was stuffed with a catalogue of the names of some as if they had 'deserved immortal fame.' Thomas Willett retired again to Plymouth Colony in the time of Governor Lovelace and died in 1674. In the Little Neck Cemetery at Riverside, East Providence, his modest grave is fortunately undisturbed....
Page 561 - CM Andrews. Baltimore, 1908.— Johns Hopkins University Studies. 78. — British Settlements in North America, Summary of the First Planting, Progressive Improvements and Present State of the, W. Douglass. Boston, 1748-1753. 2 vols. London, 1760.
Page 239 - No aid, tax, tallage, assessment, custom, loan, benevolence, or imposition whatsoever, shall be laid, assessed, imposed, or levied on any of their majesties' subjects or their estates, on any pretence whatsoever, but by the act and consent of the governor, council, and representatives of the people assembled in general court.