An Illustrated Guide to Historic Plymouth, Massachusetts

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Compiled, arranged and published by the Union news Company, 1921 - 84 pages
 

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Page 15 - IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN. We whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread sovereign lord King James, by the grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, king, defender of the faith, etc.
Page 15 - ... enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience. In witness whereof we have...
Page 15 - Faith, etc., having undertaken, for the glory of God and advancement of the Christian faith and honor of our king and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid...
Page 15 - God, and advancemente of the Christian faith, and honour of our king and countrie, a voyage to plant the first colonie in the Northerne parts of Virginia...
Page 17 - ... in one field is a great hill, on which we point to make a platform, and plant our ordnance, which will command all round about, from thence we may see into the bay, and far into the sea, and we may see thence Cape Cod...
Page 38 - ... which shoot iron balls of four and five pounds, and command the surrounding country. The lower part they use for their church, where they preach on Sundays and the usual holidays.
Page 15 - ... equall lawes, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meete and convenient for the generall good of the Colonie, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience. In witnes wherof we have hereunder subscribed our names at Cap-Codd the 11.
Page 17 - ... cleared. In one field is a great hill on which we point to make a platform and plant our ordnance, which will command all round about. From thence we may see into the bay, and far into the sea, and we may see thence Cape Cod.
Page 30 - Thursday, the 28th of December so many as could went to work on the hill, where we purposed to build our Platform for our ordnance, and which doth command all the plain and the bay, and from whence we may see far into the sea and might be easier impaled, having two rows of houses and a fair street. So in the afternoon, we went to measure out the grounds. And first, we took notice...
Page 17 - After our landing and viewing of the places, so well as we could, we came to a conclusion, by most voices, to set on the main land, on the first place, on a high ground, where there is a great deal of land cleared...

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