1491–1764
The Essential Rights and Liberties of Protestants
Elisha Williams argues freedom of conscience is a natural, unalienable right, denying civil governments authority over religious belief.
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Elisha Williams argues freedom of conscience is a natural, unalienable right, denying civil governments authority over religious belief.
John Miller criticizes New York’s religious pluralism, arguing diversity undermined morality, unity, and imperial authority without Anglican establishment.
Robert Beverley, The History of Virginia, Part 4, Chapter 10 (London: B. and S. Tooke, 1722), 235-239. Online: https://goo.gl/QCyT67. Robert Beverly (c. 1662–1722) was a prominent landowner and political figure.
George Alsop, A Character of the Province of Maryland (1666) ed. Newton D. Mereness (Cleveland: The Burrows Brothers Company, 1902), 52–61. George Alsop (c. 1636 – c. 1673), was a
William Bradford’s account of farming in early colonial New England shows the limits of Puritan ideals.
. . . The Fifth Kingdom1 was Hiquey, over which Queen Hiquanama, an elderly Princess, whom the Spaniards Crucified, presided and governed. I saw an infinite number of these people
The First Reconsideration1 of the Reverend Father, Brother Franciscus De Victoria, on the Indians Lately Discovered. First Section . . . . . . Fourth, . . . I ask
Mr. Randolph expressed his regret, that it should fall to him, rather than those who were of longer standing in life and political experience, to open the great subject of
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia (London: John Stockdale, 1787), 25–30. https://teachingamericanhistory.org/913d. Query 4: A Notice of the Mountains? For the particular geography of our mountains I must refer to
On the morning of that [election] day, at roll-call, I told the men of my company that there would be no drill, and that at nine o’clock A.M. Opportunity to