...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...

...said Body, and that they and their Successors should bo incorporated, called and known by the Name of the Council established at Plymouth, in the County...for the planting, ruling, ordering and governing of NewEngland, in America : And further also did grant unto the said President and Council, and their...

...continent between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. In that same year, he granted to " the Council of Plymouth, in the county of Devon, for the planting,...ordering, and governing of New England, in America," " all that part of America lying and being in breadth from forty degrees to forty-eight degrees of...

...continent between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. In that same year, he granted to " the Council of Plymouth, in the county of Devon, for the planting,...ordering, and governing of New England, in America," "all that part of America lying and being in breadth from forty degrees to forty-eight degrees of north...

...established by this grant—which was to consist of " forty persons and no more"—was to be known as." the Council established at Plymouth, in the county...for the Planting, Ruling, Ordering, and Governing New England in America." Absolute property in the soil, unlimited jurisdiction, the regulation of trade,...

...history of the world, has but one parallel. The adventurers and their successors were incorporated as " The Council established at Plymouth, in the county...Devon, for the planting, ruling, ordering and governing New England, in America." The territory conferred on the patentees in absolute property, with unlimited...

...and, Nov. 3, 1620, the " Great Patent of New England" was obtained from the king. By this patent " the council established at Plymouth, in " the county of Devon, for the planting, ruling, and gov" erning of New England, in America," became an independent company. dissatisfied with their...

...great seal of England, in the eighteenth year of his reign, give and grant unto a certain honourable council established at Plymouth, in the county of Devon, for the planting, ruling, and ordering, and governing of New-England in America, and to their successors and assigns, all that...

...and Warwick, Sir Ferdinando Gorges, with thirty-four associates, and their successors, styling them, 'The Council established at Plymouth, in the county...ordering, and governing of NEW ENGLAND, in America.' By this patent that part of the American territory, which lies between the fortieth and fortyeighth...

...basis of all the future patents that divide New England. The company thus incorporated was styled " The Council established at Plymouth, in the county...ordering, and governing of New England in America." Seethe petition, which was read 3d March, in Documents relative to the Colonial History of New York,...