Citations:New Englishman

English citations of New Englishman

New Englander

• c. 1707, Samuel Sewall, To the honorable Gordon Saltonstall Esq_.^r Gov_.^r of Connecticut; republished as “Samuel Sewall to Gurdon Saltonstall”, in MHS Collections, series 6, volume 1, Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1886, →OCLC, page 357:

  I hope, in the Spring, the more diffusive body of the Freemen will see it their Interest to Renew your Call to Rule over them; and that GOD will afford his gracious Concurse in Assisting and Accepting you as their Saviour; to the great delight and Satisfaction of Trew New-Englishmen both there and here

• 1846, W. W. Wright, “Free Negroes in Jamaica”, in De Bow's Review, volume 28 (old series), number 1, New Orleans: J.D.B. De Bow, →OCLC, page 88:

  Our fathers—the fathers, too, of the men of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Great Britain—have transported a race to this continent. Upon their descendants, the Englishmen and New Englishmen of the present day, as well as upon us Southerners, devolves the awful responsibility of unfolding the future of this people.

• 1890 July, Morton Fullerton, “English and Americans”, in The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, volume 52 (new series), number 1, New York: Leavitt, Trow, & Co., →OCLC, page 39:

  New Englishmen happened to have a temper more English than that of their domineering elder brothers on the soil of the old home, and they were more keenly alive to any derogation from their rights.

• 1970 [1903], Alice Morse Earle, Two Centuries of Costume in America, 1620–1820, volume 1, New York: Dover, →ISBN, pages 3, 141:

  It is difficult to discover the reasons, to trace the influences which have resulted in the production in the modern mind of that composite figure which serves to the everyday reader, the heedless observer, as the counterfeit presentment of the New England colonist,—the Boston Puritan or Plymouth Pilgrim. We have a very respectable notion, a fairly true picture, of Dutch patroon, Pennsylvania Quaker, and Virginia planter; but we see a very unreal New Englishman.
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  Her husband, Governor Symonds, was a gentle and noble old Puritan gentleman, a New Englishman of the best type; a Christian of missionary spirit who wrote that he “could go singing to his grave” if he felt sure that the poor benighted Indians were won to Christ.

• 1915, J. N. Larned, Larned's History of the World, volume 4, New York: World Syndicate Company, →OCLC, page 937:

  Among Englishmen at home the town-meeting had suffered decay; but the New Englishmen of Massachusetts and Connecticut, organizing towns and churches on identical lines, re-developed town-meetings from church-meetings, with powerful democratic effects.

• 1974, James Axtell, The School upon a Hill, New Haven: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 71:

  Although their claims for New World beauty had scant basis in biology, the colonial promoters may have hit upon a demographic truth regarding health. New Englishmen in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries appear to have survived childhood in larger numbers and lived longer than their Old World contemporaries.

Anglo-Irish settler

• 1999, Colin Kidd, British Identities before Nationalism, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 253:

  Initially, this shared commitment to Ireland's parliamentary heritage and English liberties had been the common heritage of Old English Catholics and New English settlers. As late as the 1640s representatives of both groups, the New Englishman Audley Mervyn and the Old English lawyer Patrick Darcy, could speak similar hybrid languages of common law immemorialism and Irish parliamentarism.

• 2002, Richard A. McCabe, Spenser's Monstrous Regiment, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 31:

  The use of Gaelic was so prevalent that even such a stalwart New Englishman as Richard Boyle, first Earl of Cork, was careful to have his sons taught Gaelic.

• 2007, Gerald Power, “Migration and Identity in Early Modern Ireland”, in S. G. Ellis, L. Klusáková, editors, Imagining Frontiers, Contesting Identities, Pisa: Edizioni Plus, →ISBN, page 252:

  In this climate of tension New Englishmen placed an even greater stress on the apparent differences between themselves and the Old English. Among Adam Loftus's first acts as archbishop of Dublin was to institute an inquiry into the state of religion in the Pale shires.