. William and Mary College quarterly historical magazine . wn records of New 210 William and Mary Quarterly England, he would hardly have ignored the Jamestown settlement and?given the Puritans the absorbing merit of sowing the seed of civil andreligious liberty, which are now the controlling forces of our It is merely stating a fact written all over tneir history, that downto 1776 the institutions of New England, with the exception of thoseof Rhode Island, too small to have influence, were hostile to nearlyevery idea of,civil and religious liberty. The towns were dominatedby li
. William and Mary College quarterly historical magazine . wn records of New 210 William and Mary Quarterly England, he would hardly have ignored the Jamestown settlement and?given the Puritans the absorbing merit of sowing the seed of civil andreligious liberty, which are now the controlling forces of our It is merely stating a fact written all over tneir history, that downto 1776 the institutions of New England, with the exception of thoseof Rhode Island, too small to have influence, were hostile to nearlyevery idea of,civil and religious liberty. The towns were dominatedby little religious oligarchies, who resorted to every form of persecutionand who, by citizenship a mere elective privilege, by restrictingthe franchise, and by complicating the forms of election, continued thesame men in power from year to year and often for life. (See ProfessorBaldwins Early History of the Ballot in Connecticut, American His-torical Society Papers, Vol. IV., p. 81.) VoLXXI^ April, I9J3 rv V r am unb fiftarp CollcQC iSluavterl^. Ibietorical ? HDaaasine. president of TRIliUiam and /Sar? CoMcac. *caillism an5 ^ar^ College, CiHUliamsbura, >t>a. dopy ot tbis Humber, SI,CO. $ iper pear [Baeerod &« Mcond-clau mattor at tbe Poet Offlc* iu Vol. XXI APRIL, 1913 No. 4 CONTENTS. William and Mary College ^ | Quarterly Historical Magazine. f The Breaking of the 211-220 ] Abolitionism and Southern Independence 221-223 ] Extracts from the Diary of Edmund Ruffin 224-232 \ The Virginia Legislature and the Stamp Act 233-248 j Notes from the Journal of the House of Burgesses, 1712-1726 249-257 j Arrivals from Virginia in 1656 258-262 j Bray-Johnson ;... 263 | Wright Family 264-265 ^ Brodnax Family 265-269 I The Stith Family 269-278 j Old Letters of Francis Makemie 278-283 | Excerpts from The Southern Literary Messenger. 283-291 I Historical and Genealogical Notes 292-294 | William anb flfiav^ CoIIcqc (Sluartcrlij Tbietorical fiDagasine^
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