Articles related to "General Court"

The following is a contemporary paraphrase of Mary Dyer's actual testimony before the Massachusetts General Court prior to being hung for being a Quaker.

Anne Hutchinson and staunch Puritan leader John Winthrop tangle in court. Hutchinson is banned and moves on to Rhode Island.

Anne Hutchinson finds that the staunch Puritans of New England and the Massachusetts clergy considered her words to be an attack on their rigid moral and legal codes.

Inventions are wonderful things. They improve the quality of life for people. By protecting inventor's inventions, governments encourage further creativity.

Young law clerk William Leete witnessed English oppression of Puritans and came to Connecticut, becoming the only man to lead both the New Haven and Connecticut colonies.

Where there is money, someone always seems to try to get it for nothing. Early colonial America was no exception.

Brief biography and poems of famous American poet Emily Dickinson.

Thomas Hurlburt reportedly crossed the Atlantic in 1635 with Lion Gardiner, who built and commanded the fort at Saybrook, Connecticut.

John Howland, ancestor of three American presidents, was among 18 servants aboard the Mayflower's 1620 voyage that established Plymouth Colony.

The birth of the New England form of town government may, ironically, be rooted in the failure of Sir Ferdinando Gorges' effort to colonize most of the American seaboard.

Punishment for minor petty crimes were severe in the early days of American colonialism in order to protect fragile communities and establish necessary law and order.

John Webster (1590-1661), fifth governor of the Connecticut Colony, was born at Cossington, England, and died at Hadley, MA.

King George III and his governors did not like recent actions of the Massachusetts legislature. The colony decided to stand up to the king, and did so in a letter.

Robert Park accompanied Governor Winthrop from England to America aboard the ship Arabella in 1630. He later settled at Wethersfield, then Stonington, Connecticut.

Five U.S. presidents entered the White House as widowers. The first of these was third commander-in-chief Thomas Jefferson.

The mass frenzy had to end. People lived in fear of being accused as a witch, in addition to anxiety of the alleged practitioners. Some good came out of the horror....

The British Parliament passed four acts in response to the Boston Tea Party and other American actions. Called the Intolerable Acts, they further angered the colonies.

Despite its relatively brief history of 70 years as an independent colony, Plymouth has assumed a significant role in American folklore, mostly due to Thanksgiving.

Step parents' rights are not always clear, especially concerning a step dad's role. Does a stepfather have the same rights and responsibilities as a biological father?