And if it come to pass that there be a difference, and that the one [claimant] doth oppose the other, then nothing can decide it but the sword, which is the wrath of God.The Putney Debates of October 1647 are one of those few revolutionary moments when the direction a nation might go in is being determined. Clarke had the bad luck to get captured during the time of the Spanish Inquisition.
Now there may be inconveniencies on both hands, but not so great freedom [on either as is supposed—not] the greater freedom, as I conceive, that all may have whatsoever [they have a mind to].
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Jackson appointed him commissioner to acquire the title of the Indians to the lands they claimed in Michigan.
He is also one of Halle's Great Great (etc.) He received an extensive education, including a master's degree in England followed by medical training in Leiden, Holland. He sat on the magisterial bench for four counties (Cheshire, Lancashire, Yorkshire, and Derbyshire), and was ever forward in any movement likely to tend to the general good. For if so be there were no constitutions, yet the Law of Nature does give a principle [for every man] to have a property of what he has, or may have, which is not another man’s. This [natural right to] property is the ground of meum and tuum. Captain John Clarke was one of the officers of the New Model Army who met in general council at Putney in October 1647 to debate the constitutional settlement. He spent roughly seven years facing questioning in Spanish captivity. Cromwell and others want to severely restrict the vote to the “better part” of property owners.
“Mayflower on her Arrival at Plymouth Harbor,” by William Formsby Halsall.Copyright © 2014 - 2020 New England Historical SocietyThe Spanish seized Clarke and took him first to Cuba, then to Spain. CAPTAIN Hyde John Clarke was for a long period the leading spirit in public affairs in the neighbourhood of Hyde.
Cromwell argued that the franchise should be strictly limited to men of property. He was challenged by Rainborough, Sexby, and Clarke who were representatives of the radical Leveller movement within the army.
Captain Clarke.
He signed on with Thomas Jones, a pirate and sea captain, to carry livestock to Virginia in 1619. History of St. Clair County, 1883,
Born in 25 Mar 1781 and died in 24 Dec 1863 Boonshill, Tennessee Captain John Clarke John Clark (1757 - 1783) family tree on Geni, with over 190 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives. Mr. Clarke petitioned for Michigan statehood and was elected to the State Legislature, serving 2 terms.
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