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Source Book and Bibliographical Guide for American Church History
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Historical SummaryAlthough never formally adopted, this compact was respected and therefore may be regarded as the first constitution of the Rhode Island group.
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I. THE EARLIER COMPACT
We, whose names are hereunder written, late inhabitants of the Massachusetts (upon occasion of some difference of conscience) being permitted [?] to depart from the limits of that Patent under which we came over into these parts, and being cast by the God of Heaven remote from others of our countrymen amongst the barbarians in this town of New Providence, do with free and joint consent promise each unto other that, for our common peace and welfare (until we hear further of the King’s royal pleasure concerning ourselves), we will from time to time subject ourselves, in active or passive obedience, to such orders and agreements as shall be made by the greater number of the present householders, and such as shall hereafter be admitted by their consent into the same privilege and covenant in our ordinary meeting.
Text—Richman: Rhode Island, Its Making and its Meaning, Vol. I, p. 95.
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"I. The Earlier Compact," Source Book and Bibliographical Guide for American Church History in Source Book and Bibliographical Guide for American Church History 114–115. Original Sources, accessed July 12, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=DA6EDE1JWXYPUNB.
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. "I. The Earlier Compact." Source Book and Bibliographical Guide for American Church History, in Source Book and Bibliographical Guide for American Church History, pp. 114–115. Original Sources. 12 Jul. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=DA6EDE1JWXYPUNB.
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, 'I. The Earlier Compact' in Source Book and Bibliographical Guide for American Church History. cited in , Source Book and Bibliographical Guide for American Church History, pp.114–115. Original Sources, retrieved 12 July 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=DA6EDE1JWXYPUNB.
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