New England
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the New England States
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Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
Region of early American settlement resembling village-communities.
The earliest settlers in New England appear to have planted themselves in townships having a strong resemblance to village-communities.
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
The American region settled by early English emigrants, cited as an example of habitual village organisation.
When the first English emigrants settled in New England they distributed themselves in village communities;
Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ
An American state listed in the table of collective nicknames, cited to show that whole populations are nicknamed in modern civilised nations as in ancient Arabia.
Name of the state — by-name of its people Illinois — Luchers Missouri — Pibers Oragon — Webfoot Ohio — Buckeye Indiana — Hoosiers New England — States Yankees Albama — Yellow Limnor Wisconsin — Badger
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
A destination in America to which persecuted subjects emigrated to escape ecclesiastical oppression.
And so afflict and trouble others, that great numbers to avoid their miseries departed out of the kingdom, some into New England and other parts of America, others into Holland,
The Genius of the Common Law
Region where Puritan deference to Mosaic law over the Common Law prevailed for generations.
Such was the prevailing temper, down to the eighteenth century, throughout the New England States, and the zeal of Massachusetts was equalled or even exceeded elsewhere (I do not, of course, refer to the spurious ‘Blue Laws’ of Connecticut;