430 posted on
04/27/2006 6:19:38 PM PDT by
PatrickHenry
(Unresponsive to trolls, lunatics, fanatics, retards, scolds, & incurable ignoramuses.)
"This is the official founding document for the Massachusetts colony: The Charter of New England :1620.
Second sentence of this document clearly states...
"We according to our princely Inclination, favouring much their worthy Disposition, in Hope thereby
to advance the in Largement of Christian Religion, to the Glory of God Almighty, as also by that Meanes to streatch out the Bounds of our Dominions, and to replenish those Deserts with People governed by Lawes and Magistrates, for the peaceable Commerce of all, that in time to come shall have occasion to traffique into those Territoryes, granted unto Sir Thomas Gates,