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The additional or second compact submitted by Williams to the judgment of Governor Winthrop, which has been preserved, was as follows; we whose names are hereunder written, being desirous to inhabit in this town Of New Providence, do promise to subject ourselves in active or passive Obedience to such orders and agreements as shall be made from time to time by the greater number of the present householders of this town and such whom they shall admit into the same fellowship and privilege. In witness whereof, etc.
Under these compacts the freeholders constituted an Office and appointed an Officer to execute the orders Of the town, and created a system of arbitra tion to determine the differences which might arise among the inhabitants, whose judgments the Officer was to carry into effect.
Gorton, and some Of his associates, who had been compelled to leave the island, removed to Providence, and there, as at the island, denied the authority of the government as not being based on a royal charter.
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