 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1826 - 666 pages
...AGREED TO BY THE FIRST SETTLERS ON THE ISLAND OF RHODE ISLAND. " The 7th day of the first Month 1638. WE whose names are underwritten do here solemnly,...presence of Jehovah, incorporate ourselves into a body politic, and as he shall help, will submit our persons, lives, and estates, unto our Lord Jesus... | |
 | Samuel Greene Arnold - Rhode Island - 1859 - 602 pages
...signed by nineteen l of the Aquedneck settlers was as follows : Tne 7th day of the first month, 1638. we whose names are underwritten do here solemnly,...presence of Jehovah, incorporate ourselves into a Bodic Politick, and as he shall help, will submit our persons, lives and estates unto our Lord Jesus... | |
 | 1865 - 162 pages
...Lawton ; 2d, Gideon Freeborn. COMPACT SIGNED AT PORTSMOUTH, RI The 7th of the first month (March), 1638. WE, whose names are underwritten, do here solemnly,...presence of Jehovah, incorporate ourselves into a Body Politic, and as He shall help, will submit our persons, lives, and estates, unto our Lord Jesus... | |
 | George Punchard - Church history - 1880 - 720 pages
...have done. They first of all entered into a civil and religious compact or covenant as follows : " We whose names are underwritten do here solemnly,...presence of Jehovah, incorporate ourselves into a body political as He shall help, and will submit our persons, lives, and estates, unto our Lord Jesus... | |
 | Local history - 1843 - 690 pages
...reference, they will be from the Records of Rhode Island. "The seventh day of the first month 1638." "We whose names are underwritten, do here solemnly...presence of Jehovah, incorporate ourselves into a Bodie Politic, and as he shall help — will submit our persons, lives and estates unto our Lord Jesus Christ,... | |
 | John Andrew Doyle - United States - 1889 - 398 pages
...served to give a religious coloring to the form of it In this case the declaration was as follows: " We do here solemnly, in the presence of Jehovah, incorporate ourselves into a body politic, and as He shall help will submit our persons, lives, and estates unto our Lord Jesus... | |
 | United States - 1890 - 724 pages
...first among the eighteen settlers of Aquidneck who, on March 7, 1638, signed the following covenant : " We whose names are underwritten, do here solemnly,...presence of Jehovah, incorporate ourselves into a Body Politic ; and as he shall help, will submit our persons, lives, and estates, unto our •"Young's... | |
 | Albert Henry Newman - Baptists - 1894 - 550 pages
...the island. On the " ;th day of the first month " (March, 1838) the colony was solemnly organized: "We whose names are underwritten do here solemnly,...presence of Jehovah, incorporate ourselves into a body politic, and, as he shall help, will submit our persons, lives, and estates unto rur Lord Jesus... | |
 | Philip Schaff, Henry Codman Potter, Samuel Macauley Jackson - United States - 1894 - 542 pages
...the island. On the " 7th day of the first month " (March, 1838) the colony was solemnly organized : " We whose names are underwritten do here solemnly,...presence of Jehovah, incorporate ourselves into a body politic, and, as he shall help, will submit our persons, lives, and estates unto cur Lord Jesus... | |
 | Georg Jellinek - Constitutional history - 1901 - 132 pages
...Aquedneck, the second colony in the present state of Rhode Island, after having concluded a most remarkable compact: "We whose names are underwritten do here...presence of Jehovah, incorporate ourselves into a Bodie Politik, and as he shall help, will submit our persons, lives and estates unto our Lord Jesus Christ,... | |
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WE whose names are underwritten do here solemnly, in the presence of Jehovah, incorporate ourselves into a body politic, and as he shall help, will submit our persons, lives, and estates, unto our Lord Jesus Christ, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords,... 
