Re: Just As True Today As It Was In 1779

"William Black" <william.black@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Jack Linthi***" <jacklinthi***@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> You know that OC came close to immigrating to Connecticut?
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> Thinking about it,  (This is my second answer to this post)
Rainsborough, 
> who served the forces of parliament as both admiral and general, and was

> one of the first New Model Army colonels, came from America to fight, so

> it may not have made that much difference...
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> Mind you,  he made old Oliver look politically like some namby pamby
easy 
> going liberal.
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> He's the man who said,  in open debate:
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> "For really I think that the poorest he that is in England have a life
to 
> live, as the greatest he: and therefore truly, sir, I think it's clear, 
> that every man that is to live under a government ought first by his own

> consent to put himself under that government."
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> -- 
> William Black

william goffe, one of the regicides of charlie 1, is thought to be 'the 
angel of hadley' an old man who led the towns people to victory during
King 
Phillip's War' 1676, hadley is in central massachusetts,. massachusetts 
being puritan was a good hiding place after the restoration