An Illustrated Guide to Historic Plymouth, MassachusettsCompiled, arranged and published by the Union news Company, 1921 - 84 pages |
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Allerton Billington Brewster Burial Hill cabins Cape Cod Bay Church ciative guardian cities of Massa Cole's Hill constitute patriotic shrines Crowe house built cumstances Delft Haven Departure from Delft earlier Plymouth houses Edward Winslow ENGLAND TO HOLLAND exploring figure of Faith gambrel granite grave grims GUIDE TO HISTORIC HISTORIC PLYMOUTH historic shrines Hopkins house built 1664 houses those built Howland house 1666 Indians interest John Alden John Billington Josiah Winslow Kendall Holmes house King Philip's War Leach house liberty Mayflower MAYFLOWER COMPANY Mayflower's migration Mourt's Relation Mullins Myles Standish names National Monument North Plymouth Peregrine White Pilgrim Hall Pilgrim history places themselves historic Plymouth Harbor Plymouth Rock portraits REGISTRY BUILDING relics religious roof as developed Samuel Fuller settlement shallop ship shores Shurtleff house 1698 soon as cir spot STANDISH GUARDS Standish house Tilley tombstones TOWN BROOK treasured more carefully voyage WATCH TOWER wife William Harlow House WINSLOW HOUSE
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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...