History and Genealogy of the Carpenter Family in America: From the Settlement at Providence, R.I., 1637-1901

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Marion Press, 1901 - 370 páginas
 

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Página 140 - Captain and you are also to observe and follow such Orders and Directions as, you shall from Time to Time receive from...
Página 7 - My boast is not, that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of the earth ; But higher far my proud pretensions rise — The son of parents passed into the skies.
Página 82 - Calling to mind the Mortality of my Body, and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to Die Do make and Ordain this my Last Will and Testament...
Página 57 - State, or any other your Superior Officer, according to the Rules and discipline of War in pursuance of the Trust...
Página 140 - GEORGE CLINTON Esquire. Governor of our said state General and Commander in chief of all the militia and admiral of the navy of the same...
Página 11 - Miantinomo, my kind friend, that it should not be land that I should want about these bounds mentioned, provided that I satisfied the Indians there inhabiting. I having made covenant of peaceable neighborhood with all the sachems and natives round about us, and having, of a sense of God's merciful Providence unto me in my distress, called the place Providence, I desired it might be for a shelter for persons distressed for conscience.
Página 11 - Dexter and others, as our town book declares ; and whereas, by God's merciful assistance, I was the procurer of the purchase, not by monies nor payment, the natives being so shy and jealous, that monies could not do it, but by that language, acquaintance, and favor with the natives and other advantages which it pleased God to give me...
Página 39 - Highness's use, as an acknowlegement or quit-rent, one good fatt lamb, unto such officer or officers as shall be empowered to receive the same. Given under my hand, and sealed with the seal of the province in New- York, this 25th day of March, in the twenty-ninth year of his Mattc
Página 39 - ... and every part and parcel thereof, with their and every of their appurtenances. To have and to hold the said...

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