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A Discourse Delivered at Providence, August 5, L836: In Commemoration of the ... - Page 27
by John Pitman - 1836 - 72 pages
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Collections, Volume 5

1843 - 682 pages
...They probably signed this agreement as soon as they became of age. " We whose names are hereunder, desirous to inhabit in the town of Providence, do promise to subject ourselves in active or passive obedience, to all such orders or agreements as shall be made for public good of the body,...
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An Address to the People of Rhode Island: Delivered in Newport, on Wednesday ...

William Giles Goddard - 1843 - 88 pages
...date is affixed, but Knowles expresses a decided opinion that it was drawn up by Roger Williams : " We, whose names are here under, desirous to inhabit...Providence, do promise to subject ourselves, in active or passive obedience, to all such orders or agreements as shall be made for public good of the body...
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Rhode Island Historical Society Collections

Rhode Island Historical Society - 1843 - 880 pages
...They probably signed this agreement as soon as they became of age. " We whose names are hereimder, desirous to inhabit in the town of Providence, do promise to subject ourselves in active or passive obedience, to all such orders or agreements as shall be made for public good of the body,...
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The North American Review, Volume 58

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1844 - 574 pages
...following entry, under the date of August 20th, 1637. " We, whose names are here under, desirous to inhabit the town of Providence, do promise to subject ourselves...in active and passive obedience to all such orders and agreements as shall be made for public good of the body in an orderly way, by the major consent...
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The Complete Works of the Hon. Job Durfee, LL.D., Late Chief Justice of ...

Job Durfee (Class of 1813) - 1849 - 562 pages
...names are hercunder. desirous to inhabit the town of Providence, do promise to subject ourselves,'iu active and passive obedience, to all such orders or...be made for public good of the body, in an orderly icay, by the major assent of the present inhabitants, masters of families, iucorporated together into...
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Plain Words to Young Men. by Augustus Woodbury.

Augustus Woodbury - 1858 - 252 pages
...underwritten, being desirous to inhabit in the town of Providence, do promise to submit ourselves in active or passive obedience to all such orders, or agreements, as shall be made for the public good of the body, in an orderly way, by the major consent of the present inhabitants, masters...
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Plain Words to Young Men

Augustus Woodbury - 1858 - 280 pages
...underwritten, being desirous to inhabit in the town of Providence, do promise to submit ourselves in active or passive obedience to all such orders, or agreements, as shall be made for the public good of the body, in an orderly way, by the major consent of the present inhabitants, masters...
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Self-made Men

Charles C. B. Seymour - 1858 - 606 pages
...underwritten, being desirous to inhabit the town of Providence, do promise to submit ourselves, in active or passive obedience, to all such orders or agreements as shall be made for the public good of the body, in an orderly way, by the major consent of the present inhabitants, masters...
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History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Volume 1

Samuel Greene Arnold - 1859 - 602 pages
..."The first written compact that has come down to us is as follows : " We whose names are hereunder, desirous to inhabit in the town of Providence, do promise to subject ourselves in active or passive obedience to all such orders or agreements as shall be made for public good of the body,...
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The Life and Times of Thomas Wilson Dorr: With Outlines of the Political ...

Dan King - 1859 - 376 pages
...commenced in 1636, and the following is one of their earliest records : — "We, whose names are hereunder, desirous to inhabit in the town of Providence, do promise to subject ourselves, in active or passive obedience, to all such orders or agreements as shall be made for public good of the body...
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