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... freeman . In 1667 , he once more removed , with a majority of the Branford church , to New Jersey , and became the first minister of Newark , where he passed the remainder of his life . He died , August 9 , 1678 : a godly , learned man ...
... freeman . In 1667 , he once more removed , with a majority of the Branford church , to New Jersey , and became the first minister of Newark , where he passed the remainder of his life . He died , August 9 , 1678 : a godly , learned man ...
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... freeman's oath to Bulke- ley , among others , and three years afterward he was nominated to stand for his acceptation as a freeman : yet he tells us , in 1689 , that he was no freeman of the Colony . As the law ordered that no person ...
... freeman's oath to Bulke- ley , among others , and three years afterward he was nominated to stand for his acceptation as a freeman : yet he tells us , in 1689 , that he was no freeman of the Colony . As the law ordered that no person ...
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... freemen merely , in the several towns , * and there were two thousand one hundred and eighty - two persons who voted in the affirmative : probably not far from a two - thirds vote . Thereupon the General Court made choice of and ...
... freemen merely , in the several towns , * and there were two thousand one hundred and eighty - two persons who voted in the affirmative : probably not far from a two - thirds vote . Thereupon the General Court made choice of and ...
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... free- men , according to qualifications of their own prescription , and exclude the rest ; these freemen choose a governor , deputy governor , and assistants , in imitation ( as it seems ) of the corporation government erected in the ...
... free- men , according to qualifications of their own prescription , and exclude the rest ; these freemen choose a governor , deputy governor , and assistants , in imitation ( as it seems ) of the corporation government erected in the ...
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... freemen , which , beside the power given by the charter , gives itself power , to " grant suspension , release , and gaol delivery upon reprieve ( not only in inferior criminal , but also in capital cases ) to any person sentenced in ...
... freemen , which , beside the power given by the charter , gives itself power , to " grant suspension , release , and gaol delivery upon reprieve ( not only in inferior criminal , but also in capital cases ) to any person sentenced in ...
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Page 184 - ... said realm of England, dominion of Wales or town of Berwick upon Tweed...
Page 106 - No man's life shall be taken away, no man's honor or good name shall be stained, no man's person shall be arrested, restrained, banished, dismembered, nor any ways punished, no man shall be deprived of his wife or children, no man's goods or estate shall be taken away from him, nor any way indamaged under color of law or countenance of authority, unless it be by virtue or equity of some express law of the country warranting the same, established by a general court and sufficiently published...
Page 79 - If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain ; if thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not ; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works...
Page 256 - ... under color of law or Countenance of Authority, unless it be by virtue or equity of some express law of the Country warranting the same, established by a General Court and sufficiently published, or in case of the defect of a law in any particular case, by the word of God.
Page 101 - And further, full power and authority are hereby given and granted to the said General Court, from time to time, to make, ordain, and establish, all manner of wholesome and reasonable orders, laws, statutes, and ordinances, directions and instructions...
Page 123 - Commonwealth, and also to kill, slay and destroy, if necessary, and conquer, by all fitting ways, enterprises and means whatsoever, all and every such person and persons as shall, at any time hereafter, in a hostile manner, attempt or enterprise the destruction, invasion, detriment, or annoyance of this Commonwealth...
Page 260 - And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily upon him, whether it be unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.
Page 281 - ... perceptible, — but by sounds and tremors, which sometimes are very fearful and dreadful. I have myself heard eight or ten sounds successively, and imitating small arms, in the space of five minutes. I have, I suppose, heard several hundreds of them within twenty years ; some more, some less terrible. Sometimes we have heard them almost every day ; and great numbers of them in the space of a year.
Page 75 - Nicholson, or, in his absence, to "such as, for the time being, take care for preserving the peace and administering the law
Page 73 - ... 1 This letter of Hooker's was discovered in our Massachusetts archives by JH Trumbull, Esq., of Hartford; and will be found, with some interesting notes, in the first volume of the Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society. Another letter of Hooker's to Governor Winthrop on the same subject, but in a somewhat different spirit, will be found in this volume hereafter.