Category: politics

lot 19

whatsoever person or persons within this province
shall blaspheme god
shall be punished with death,
no person professing to believe in jesus christ shall be troubled.
we studied the glory of god in assurance of victory.
a choir sings at lot 19
that he comes with trumpets proclaiming
and every island and sea and mountain shall flee away.
iroquois say we return thanks to the sun

saint pauls at sunrise
(in 1702 the church of england was established in the colony, and would later, continuing to now, occupy one of the original lots of the town)

whetstone

forty-one pounds sterling
and forty-two shillings
for speculation.
sixteen thousand pounds sterling,
for one hundred thousand pounds of pig iron
shipped across the sea.
then iron for war

silo at sunrise
(the principio company, an iron manufacturer, bought part of what is now locus point in the 1720s and began mining iron ore there)