...privileges, and grants therein contained, more at large appeareth). And whereas the said council established at Plymouth, in the county of Devon, for the planting, ruling, ordering, and governing of New-England, in America, did, by their deed, indented under their common seal, bearing date the nineteenth...

...and honest purchase from their natural owners, the Indian tribes. King James, soon after, erected a council at Plymouth, in the county of Devon, "for the planting, ruling, ordering, and * This ought to silence the infamous calumnies of those, who represent the first settlers in New England,...

...and honest purchase from their natural owners, the Indian tribes. King James, soon after, erected a council at Plymouth, in the county of Devon, " for the planting, ruling, ordering, and * This ought to silence the infamous calumnies of those, who represent the first settlers in New England,...

...in the 18th year of his Reign did Grant the land in Question with them unto the Council Established at Plymouth in the County of Devon for the Planting...Ruling ordering and Governing of New England in America ; and to their Successors and assigns and That that Council in the third year of King Charles the first,...

...constituting forty noblemen, gentlemen, and merchants, a company, under the title of " The Council established at Plymouth, in the county of Devon, for the planting, ruling, ordering, and governing New England, in America" The territory granted in this patent extended from the fortieth to the- forty-eighth...

...in the 18th year of his Reign did Grant the land in Question with them unto the Council Established at Plymouth in the County of Devon for the Planting Ruling ordering and Gpverning of New England in America ; and to their Successors and assigns and That that Council in...

...(A) THE GREAT PATENT OF NEW ENGLAND. CHARTER OF THE COUNCIL ESTABLISHED AT PLYMOL'TH. IN THE COL'NTY OF DEVON. FOR THE PLANTING, RULING, ORDERING. AND GOVERNING OF NEW ENGLAND IN AMERICA. JAMES, by the Grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith,...

...after two years, a charter was obtained, which incorporated this Company as " The Council established at Plymouth, in the county of Devon, for the planting, ruling, ordering, and governing New England in America." The territory granted by the charter, extended from the fortieth to the forty-eighth...

...incorporated, under a new charter, as " The Council established at Plymouth, in the County of Devon, (England,) for the Planting, Ruling, Ordering, and Governing of New England in America." This grant authorized the colonists to choose a Governor, Council, and General Court, for the enactment...

...Massachusetts Bay, in New England," (in continuation of the Charter of 1620, to " The council established at Plymouth, in the county of Devon, for the planting,...ordering, and governing of New England, in America,") first took the bold step of transferring themselves and their charter to the territory granted to them,...