Abbildungen der Seite
PDF
EPUB
[blocks in formation]

L29923

MAY 2 7 1946

The CHARTER granted by His Majefty King
CHARLES the Second, &c.

HARLES the Second, by the Grace of GOD, KING of England, Scotland,
France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c.

CHAR

To all to whom these Presents fhall come, GREETING.

Whereas by the several Navigations, Difcoveries, and Successful Plantations of divers of Our loving Subjects of this Our Realm of England, feveral Lands, İflands, Places, Colonies, and Plantations have been obtained and jettled in that Part of the Continent of America called New-England, and thereby the Trade and Commerce there, hath been of late Years much increased: And whereas We bave been informed by the bumble Petition of Our Trufty and Well-beloved John Winthrop, John Mafon, Samuel Wyllys, Henry Clarke, Matthew Allyn, John Tapping, Nathan Gold, Richard Treat, Richard Lord, Henry Wolcott, John Talcott, Daniel Clarke, John Ogden, Thomas Wells, Obadiah Bruen, John Clarke, Anthony Hawkins, John Deming, and Matthew Camfield, being Perjons principally interested in Our Colony or Plantation of Connecticut, in New-England, that the jame Colony, or the greatest part thereof was Purchafed and Obtained for great and valuable Confiderations, and fome other Part thereof gained by Conquest, and with much Difficulty, and at the only Endeavours, Expence, and Charges of them and their Affociates, and those under whom they Claim, Subdued, and Improved, and thereby became a confiderable Enlargement and Addition of Our Dominions and Intereft there. Now Know YE, That in Confideration thereof, and in Regard the faid Colony is remote from other the English Plantations in the Places aforesaid, and to the End the Affairs and Bufinefs which fhall from Time to Time happen or arife concerning the fame, may be duly Ordered and Managed, we have thought fit, and at the humble Petition of the Perfons aforefaid, are graciously Pleased to create and make them a Body Politick and Corporate, with the Powers and The CorpoPrivileges herein after mentioned; and accordingly Our Will and Pleafure is, ration conftiand of our efpecial Grace, certain Knowledge, and meer Motion, We have or- tuted. dained, conftituted and declared, and by thefe Prefents, for Us, Our Heirs and Succeffors, Do ordain, conftitute and declare, that they the faid John Winthrop, John Majon, Samuel Wyllys, Henry Clarke, Matthew Allyn, John Tapping, Nathan Gold, Richard Treat, Richard Lord, Henry Wolcott, John Talcott, Daniel Clarke, John Ogden, Thomas Wells, Obadiah Bruen, John Clarke, of the Patie Anthony Hawkins, John Deming, and Matthew Camfield, and all fuch others as now are, or hereafter shall be admitted, and made Free of the Company and Society of Our Colony of Connecticut, in America, fhall from Time to Time, and for ever hereafter, be One Body Corporate and Politick, in Fact and Name, by the name of, Governor and Company of the English Colony of Connecticut, in New-England, in America; and that by the fame Name they and their fucceffors fhall and may have perpetual Succeffion, and fhall and may be Persons able and capable in the Law, to plead and be impleaded, to anfwer and to be answered unto, to defend and be defended in all and fingular Suits, Caufes, Quarrels, Matters, Actions, and Things, of what Kind or Nature foty to plead & ever; and also to have, take, poffefs, acquire, and purchase Lands, Tenements, delend, &c, or Hereditaments, or any Goods, or Chattels, and the fame to lease, grant, demife, alien, bargain, fell, and difpofe of, as other Our liege People of this To purchafe Our Reaim of England, or any other Corporation or Body Politick within the Lands, &c. fame may lawfully do. And further, That the laid Governor and Company, and their Succeffors, fhall and may forever hereafter have a Common Seal, to To have a serve and use for all Causes, Matters, Things, and Affairs whatsoever, of them common feal, and their Succeffors, and the fame Seal to aiter, change, break, and make new from Time to Time, at their Wills and Pleafures, as they hall think fit. And further, We will and ordain, and by thefe Prefents, for Us, Cor Heirs, and Succeffors, do declare and appoint, That for the better ordering, and ma

The Names

tees.

The Name of

the Corpora

tion.

Their Abili

and to alter

be it.

« ZurückWeiter »