A Sketch of the First Settlement of the Several Towns on Long Island: With Their Political Condition, to the End of the American RevolutionA. Spooner, 1828 - 181 páginas |
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... passed a resolu- tion , that no person should cut trees or sell wood from their common lands , for pipe staves , or heading , or other purposes , to any person not being a townsman , " without the town's lib- erty . " In 1659 the town ...
... passed a resolu- tion , that no person should cut trees or sell wood from their common lands , for pipe staves , or heading , or other purposes , to any person not being a townsman , " without the town's lib- erty . " In 1659 the town ...
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... passed a similar resolution . In 1664 the town of Southampton voted that no timber should be made into pipe staves , to be carried out of the town , under the penalty of twenty shillings a tree . In 1668 the town of Newtown voted that ...
... passed a similar resolution . In 1664 the town of Southampton voted that no timber should be made into pipe staves , to be carried out of the town , under the penalty of twenty shillings a tree . In 1668 the town of Newtown voted that ...
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... passed through the Sound and confirmed the discovery of Adrian Block . In his journal he states " we found a most dangerous cataract amongst small rockey Islands , occasion- ed by two unequal tides , the one ebbing and flowing two hours ...
... passed through the Sound and confirmed the discovery of Adrian Block . In his journal he states " we found a most dangerous cataract amongst small rockey Islands , occasion- ed by two unequal tides , the one ebbing and flowing two hours ...
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... and test acts , and continued until the evolution ; soon after which in 1691 , the toleration act was passed , which secured to the dissenters a partial and qualified enjoy- They held that by the British Constitution , the people 18.
... and test acts , and continued until the evolution ; soon after which in 1691 , the toleration act was passed , which secured to the dissenters a partial and qualified enjoy- They held that by the British Constitution , the people 18.
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... passed an act forbid- ding any persons to sell any liquor but such as were deputed by the town for that purpose , and also forbidding such persons to suffer youth and such as were under other men's manage- ment , to remain drinking at ...
... passed an act forbid- ding any persons to sell any liquor but such as were deputed by the town for that purpose , and also forbidding such persons to suffer youth and such as were under other men's manage- ment , to remain drinking at ...
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Página 168 - ... we the Inhabitants and Residents of Windsor, Hartford and Wethersfield are now cohabiting and dwelling in and upon the River of Connecticut and the lands thereunto adjoining; and well knowing where a people are gathered together the word of God requires that to maintain the peace and union of such a people there should be an orderly and decent Government established according to God...
Página 106 - 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.
Página 164 - By ordinance of the high and mighty lords the states general of the United Netherlands.
Página 136 - It is the most difficult thing in the world, Sir, to know in what manner to conduct one's self with respect to the militia. If you do not begin, many days before they are wanted, to raise them, you cannot have them in time ; if you do, they get tired and return, besides being under but very little order or government whilst in service.
Página 6 - Warwick and others, to the number of forty noblemen, knights and gentlemen, by the name 'of the Council established at Plymouth in the county of Devon, for the planting, ruling and governing of New England in America...
Página 170 - ... that the creek or river called Mamaroneck which is reputed to be about thirteen miles to the east of Westchester, and a line drawn from the east point or side where the fresh water falls into the salt, at high water mark, north-northwest to the line of the Massachusetts...
Página 172 - ... foreign or domestic ; we being already well assured, that, in so doing, we perform our duty of allegiance to his majesty, as freeborn subjects of the kingdom of England inhabiting in these his majesty's dominions. We do farther beseech your royal highness to accept of this address, as the first fruits in this general meeting, for a memorial and record against us, our heirs and successors, when we or any of them shall fail in our duties.
Página 163 - That upon Long Island, a line run from the westernmost part of Oysterbay, and so in a straight and direct line to the sea, shall be the bounds between the English and the Dutch there, the easterly part to belong to the English, and the westernmost part to the Dutch.
Página 179 - ... deprived of any share, vote, or interest, in the government, to their great discouragement, and contrary to the laws, rights, liberties, and privileges, of the subject ; so that we are esteemed as nothing, and have become a reproach to the neighbours in other his majesty's colonies, who flourish under the fruition and protection of his majesty's unparalleled form and method of government in his realm of England, the undoubted birthright of all his subjects.
Página 170 - Connecticut, which are too long here to be recited, we do declare and order, that the southern bounds of his majesty's colony of Connecticut, is the sea, and that Long Island is to be under the government of his royal highness the duke of York, as is expressed by plain words, in the said patents, respectively, and also by virtue of his majesty's commission, and the consent of both the governors and the gentlemen abovenamed.