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Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 3

Acknowledgment of John Clarke and Nicholas Parker1
Clarke, John Parker, Nicholas Winthrop, John Massachusetts Bay Company, General Court

1637-11-22

For the writing called a petition which hath given Offence to the Court we had no hand in it, nor doe knowe the contents of it: and for the Authority heere sett ouer vs: we acknowledge it to be of God, and that we are bound to be subiect therto while we live under it and that it were sinfull in vs to resist the same, or to goe about by any violent course to stoppe the Course of Justice.

John Clarke Nicholas Parker Ca. November 22, 1637
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W. 1. 118. This document is in the handwriting of Governor Winthrop.