The Life and Times of Samuel Gorton; The Founders and the Founding of the Republic: A Section of Early United States History and a History of the Colo - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1230243712 ISBN 13: 9781230243719

Casa editrice: TheClassics.us, 2013

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... their houses at Shawomet, where, perceiving that Shawomet was not expressly named in the order of the court banishing them, they addressed a letter of inquiry from "the government of Shawomet" by William Warner, secretary to Governor Winthrop; he replying that it was included in the territory forbidden them. They did not wait there for the reply to their letter, for Gorton says they arrived on the island within the limit of their banishment. Again, "about a week after," says Winthrop, "wc sent men to fetch so many of their cattle as might defray our charge, both of the soldiers and of the court which spent many days about them and for their expenses in prison. It came in all to about £160/ The greatest injustice to Gorton was not in anything we have related, but in the untruthful account of him circulated by Massachusetts writers, not to justify the people of Massachusetts for they never did approve of it, but to justify the Magistrates' and Elders' proceedings. Gorton said, truthfully, that "they labored to give the country satisfaction by rehearsing gross opinions of us, and interpretation of our writings which we abhor. That we denied the holy ordinances of Christ because we could not join with them in their way of administration. That we denied all civil magistracy because we could not yield to their authority, we being above twenty-four miles out of their bounds, which we should not have questioned if we had been within them. Our humble respects unto all such authority hath been made manifest to all men." Through the history of these people and their struggles for life, liberty and the possession of their homes yet forty-three troubled years before allowed peaceable and permanent possession of them, "Shawomet has become a name...

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• Editore: TheClassics.us
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1230243712
• ISBN 13: 9781230243719
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 96