The John Watts DePeyster Publication Fund Series, Volume 2

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New York Historical Society, 1870

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Page 359 - 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...
Page 372 - Name of the Council Established at Plymouth in the County of Devon, for the Planting, Ruling, Ordering and Governing of New England in America...
Page 362 - Commonwealth, to assemble in martial array, and put in warlike posture, the inhabitants thereof, and to lead and conduct them, and with them to encounter, repel, resist, expel and pursue, by force of arms...
Page 445 - Lord Charles by the grace of God King of England Scotland ffrance and Ireland Defender of the ffaith &c...
Page 523 - All that part of the main land of New England beginning at a certain place called or known by the name of St. Croix next adjoining to New Scotland in America...
Page 358 - ... given and granted full power and authority from time to time to administer oaths or affirmations, for the better discovery of truth in any matter in controversy or depending before them.
Page 359 - ... constitution, as they shall judge to be for the good and welfare of this Commonwealth, and for the government and ordering thereof, and of the subjects of the same, and for the necessary support and defence of the government thereof...
Page 352 - ... or five of them at least, shall, and may, from time to time, hold and keep a council, for the ordering and directing the affairs of the commonwealth, agreeably to the constitution and the laws of the land.
Page 341 - ... and every part and parcel thereof. And also all islands lying in America aforesaid, in the said seas, or either of them, on the western or eastern coasts...
Page 524 - Hudson's River, and all the Land from the West side of Connecticut River, to the East side of Delaware Bay...

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