| John Wingate Thornton - Ann, Cape (Mass.) - 1854 - 112 pages
...territory, extending from sea to sea, to Gorges and his associates, whom he incorporated under the title of " The council established at Plymouth, in the county of Devon, for the planting, ruling, ordering, and governing of New England, in America." The order for the patent was issued by... | |
| John Wingate Thornton - Ann, Cape (Mass.) - 1854 - 116 pages
...territory, extending from sea to sea, to Gorges and his associates, whom he incorporated under the title of " The council established at Plymouth, in the county of Devon, for the planting, ruling, ordering, and governing of New England, in America." The order for the patent was issued by... | |
| George Bancroft - United States - 1854 - 550 pages
...history of the world, has but one parallel. The adventurers and their successors were incorporated as " The Council established at Plymouth, in the county of Devon, for the planting, ruling, ordering and governing New England, in America. The territory conferred on the patentees in... | |
| Henry Sweetser Burrage - America - 1914 - 494 pages
...company, a patent, known as the "Great Patent of New England", was issued by James I, November 3, 1620, to the "Council established at Plymouth in the County of Devon, for the planting, ruling, ordering and governing of New England in America".8 Gorges, who had been prominent in the affairs... | |
| Emory Richard Johnson - United States - 1915 - 394 pages
...Company obtained new letters-patent from Charles I, and became the New England Council, or more precisely "The Council established at Plymouth, in the County of Devon, for the planting, ruling, ordering and governing New England in America." The colonists in New Plymouth, however, had... | |
| World history - 1915 - 468 pages
...Ferdinando Gorges and others the land between 40° and 48°. The name of the new corporation was " The Council established at Plymouth in the County of Devon for the Planting, Ruling and Governing of New England in America," and is usually known as the " New England Council."... | |
| Otis Grant Hammond - Mason's patent, New Hampshire - 1916 - 38 pages
...obscurity. All the various grants to Mason and Gorges, or to Capt. John Mason alone, emanated from the "Council Established at Plymouth in the County of Devon for the Planting, Ruling, Ordering, and Governing of New England in America," which in common usage was called the Council... | |
| Stephen Haley Allen - Constitutional history - 1916 - 1264 pages
...established at Plymouth, with power to fill vacancies thereafter occurring. The corporate name was "the Council established at Plymouth in the county of Devon for the planting, ruling and governing of New England in America" and they were given the usual powers of succession,... | |
| Wilson Waters - Chelmsford (Mass. : Town) - 1917 - 1020 pages
...northern colony of Virginia between forty and forty eight degrees north latitude, were incorporated as the Council Established at Plymouth in the County of Devon, for the Planting, Ruling, Ordering and Governing of New England in America. This was the great civil basis of the future... | |
| Massachusetts - 1917 - 394 pages
...Arundel and Warwick, ;md Sir F. Gorges, with th1rty-four others, and their successors, styl1ng them ' The Council established at Plymouth, in the county of Devon, for the planting, ruling, ordering, and governing New England in America," which is the great and civil basis of all... | |
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