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Select Charters and Other Documents Illustrative of American History, 1606-1775
Select Charters and Other Documents Illustrative of American History 1606-1775 Author:William MacDonald General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1899 Original Publisher: Macmillan Co. Subjects: Charters United States History / United States / General History / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775) Law / Public Contract Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations... more » and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: [The patent recites the grant of 1620 to the Council for New England, and continues:] Now knowe yee that the said councell by virtue and authority of his said late Majesty's letters pattents and for and in consideration that William Bradford and his associatts have for these nine yeares lived in New Englande aforesaid and have there inhabited and planted a towne called by the name of New Plimouth att their own proper costs and charges: And now seeinge that by the speciall providence of god, and their extraordinary care and industry they have increased their plantation to neere three hundred people, and are uppon all occasions able to relieve any new planters or others his Majesty's subjects whoe may fall uppon that coaste; . . . doe . . . graunt . . . unto the said William Bradford, his heires, associatts and assignes all that part of New- Englande in America aforesaid and tracte and tractes of lande that lye within or betweene a certaine rivolet or rundlett there commonly called Coahassett alias Conahasset towards the north, and the river commonly called Naragansets river towards the south; and the great westerne ocean towards the east, and betweene and within a straight line directly extendinge upp into the maine land towards the west from the mouth of the said river called Naragansetts river to the utmost limitts and bounds of a cuntry or place in New Englande called Pokenacutt alias Sowam- sett westward, and another lik...« less