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The additional or second compact submitted by Williams to the judgment of Governor Winthrop, which has been preserved, was as follows; we whose names are hereunder written, being desirous to inhabit in this town Of New Providence, do promise to subject ourselves in active or passive Obedience to such orders and agreements as shall be made from time to time by the greater number of the present householders of this town and such whom they shall admit into the same fellowship and privilege. In witness whereof, etc.
Under these compacts the freeholders constituted an Office and appointed an Officer to execute the orders Of the town, and created a system of arbitra tion to determine the differences which might arise among the inhabitants, whose judgments the Officer was to carry into effect.
Gorton, and some Of his associates, who had been compelled to leave the island, removed to Providence, and there, as at the island, denied the authority of the government as not being based on a royal charter.
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Excerpt from Random Notes on the Government of Rhode Island
The additional or second compact submitted by Williams to the judgment of Governor Winthrop, which has been preserved, was as follows; we whose names are hereunder written, being desirous to inhabit in this town Of New Providence, do promise to subject ourselves in active or passive Obedience to such orders and agreements as shall be made from time to time by the greater number of the present householders of this town and such whom they shall admit into the same fellowship and privilege. In witness whereof, etc.
Under these compacts the freeholders constituted an Office and appointed an Officer to execute the orders Of the town, and created a system of arbitra tion to determine the differences which might arise among the inhabitants, whose judgments the Officer was to carry into effect.
Gorton, and some Of his associates, who had been compelled to leave the island, removed to Providence, and there, as at the island, denied the authority of the government as not being based on a royal charter.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Excerpt from Random Notes on the Government of Rhode Island
The founders of the Rhode Island Colony purchased their lands of the Indians. They incorporated themselves into a civil society by mutual agreement. As the proprietors of the soil, they arrogated to themselves the right to say who should come to reside upon it, and who should participate in the government of the civil society, which they had established. This is alike true of the colonies established at Providence, at Portsmouth, and at Newport.
Samuel Gorton, an outcast from Plymouth, came to Portsmouth in December, 1638. He denied the validity of their act of incorporation because the colony had no charter, and because the incorporation was without the recognition of the King's authority: Gorton soon obtained converts to his contention and caused a division among the colonists, whereupon the elected officers of the colony, with some of their adherents, to avoid dissension, entered into a covenant to found a colony, and removed to and founded Newport on the last day of April, 1639. The remaining colonists at Portsmouth, on the day of the withdrawal of their associates, entered into a new agreement of incorporation, in which they fully recognized the king's authority.
Perhaps the next year, 1640, an unfortunate occurrence took place, which occasioned sharp differences of opinion and brought to a test the validity of Gorton's contention. Gorton and a widow woman occupied adjoining lands; a cow belonging to the widow escaped and entered Gorton's grounds, an employee of Gorton, went to drive the cow from his ground and according to the report of the case, by the testimony advanced upon the trial, beat and stoned the cow in an unmerciful and cruel manner; the widow observing the treatment of her cow, went into Gorton's ground and attempted to reclaim the cow, whereupon Gorton's maid seized the widow by the hair, pulled her down and beat her. The widow at once went to Nicholas Easton, a magistrate, and complained of the injury she had received, and obtained a warrant for Gorton's maid; she was arrested on the warrant, and brought before the magistrate; Gorton appeared for her and gave security for her appearance at the court of trials, presided over by Coddington. At this court Gorton appeared but would not allow the maid to appear. He denied the jurisdiction of the court, and was very abusive of its members, and especially of Easton. Among other things, he charged Easton, while he was sitting as a magistrate, as having had his cars cut off, and he charged the entire court with corruption.
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