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	George Washington Papers: Time Line: The American Revolution
		August 23, King George III declares all the Colonies to be in a state of rebellion.
		The Revolution, however, causes a civil war among the Iroquois, and the Oneidas are one of the few tribes to side with the Americans.
		Washington writes the governors of Rhode Island and Connecticut, October 24, enclosing an account of the attack by a Falmouth citizen, Pearson Jones, and severely criticizing the British for not allowing enough time for inhabitants to remove their belongings.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/gwhtml/1775.html (1248 words)

	Government House: Naval Governors, 1729-1824 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Whereas the early governors had been leaders of commercial ventures, the naval governors were professionals, paid a set salary, and given an official mandate to enforce the authority of the Crown.
		In the 1730s several fishing admirals challenged the governor's authority by arguing that this commission was inferior to statute law; but by 1750 the naval governors had become firmly entrenched as the unrivaled political and legal force in Newfoundland.
		The governor, followed by the other offices, proceeded in his launch to the King's Wharf, where he was received by the senior magistrates, the prominent local citizens, and an honour guard from the garrison.
	www.heritage.nf.ca /govhouse/governorship/naval.html (1363 words)

	New Georgia Encyclopedia: Royal Georgia, 1752-1776 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The charter provided for a strong governor empowered to convoke an assembly, pass on legislation, propose the erection of courts, approve land grants, enforce the laws, and otherwise administer the province.
		In 1763 Governor Wright and British Superintendent for Indian Affairs John Stuart, abetted by influential traders Lachlan McGillivray and George Galphin, arranged a cession of the territory between the Savannah and the Ogeechee rivers as far north as the Little River.
		On July 4, 1775, a second Provincial Congress met at Tondee's Tavern in Savannah, agreed to join the Continental Association, elected delegates to Congress, and established a standing committee called the Council of Safety.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-818 (2132 words)

	Massachusetts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The colony, usually including present-day Maine, defeated some Indian tribes in King Philip's War in the 1670s and fought with Britain a series of French and Indian Wars that were characterized by brutal border raids and successful attacks on Canada.
		The governor is head of the executive branch and serves as chief administrative officer of the state and as commander-in-chief of the Massachusetts' military forces.
		Responsibilities of the governor include preparation of the annual budget, nomination of all judicial officers, the granting of pardons (with the approval of the governor's Council), appointments of the heads of most major state departments, and the acceptance or veto of each bill passed by the Legislature.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Massachusetts (4452 words)

	North Carolina History
		The council served as an advisory group to the governor during the proprietary and royal periods, as well as serving as the upper house of the legislature when the assembly was in session.
		If a governor or deputy governor was unable to carry on as chief executive because of illness, death, resignation, or absence from the colony, the president of the council became the chief executive and exercised all powers of the governor until the governor returned or a new governor was commissioned.
		The governor and other executive officers were elected to four-year terms, while the justices of the supreme court and judges of the superior court were elected to eight-year terms.
	statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us /nc/history/history.htm (3577 words)

	National Governors Association
		He served as a member of the Council of Safety in 1775 and 1776, and was a delegate to the Provincial Congress in 1776.
		He was appointed Governor of Georgia from 1786 to 1787, and served as a delegate to the 1788 state constitution, which sanctioned the United States Constitution.
		Governor Edward Telfair died on September 17, 1807, and he is buried at the Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah.
	www.nga.org /portal/site/nga/menuitem.29fab9fb4add37305ddcbeeb501010a0/?vgnextoid=96db224971c81010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD&vgnextchannel=e449a0ca9e3f1010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD (397 words)

	An Outline of American History - The Colonial Period
		In 1618 the Virginia Company issued instructions to its appointed governor providing that free inhabitants of the plantations should elect representatives to join with the governor and an appointive council in passing ordinances for the welfare of the colony.
		Eventually most colonies became royal colonies, but in the mid-17th century, the English were too distracted by the Civil War (1642-1649) and Oliver Cromwell's Puritan Commonwealth and Protectorate to pursue an effective colonial policy.
		The governor of the colony agreed and dismissed the court.
	www.usemb.se /usis/history/chapter2.html (4490 words)

	Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution
		The most honored profession in the colonial times was the clergy, which in 1775, had less power than before but still wielded a great amount of it.
		By 1775, eight of the colonies had royal governors who were appointed by the king.
		Lord Cornbury, first cousin of Queen Anne, was made governor of New York and New Jersey in 1702 but proved to be a drunkard, a spendthrift, a gafter, and embezzler, a religious bigot, and a vain fool.
	www.course-notes.org /chptoutlines/apusnotes/Chapter-05.htm (1961 words)

	Colonial Governors
		OF the colonial governors sent from Britain to the American colonies before the Revolution, and of the provincial governors from that time to 1789, upwards of forty were of Scottish birth or descent.
		Although he held the appointment of Governor of Virginia, he does not, however, appear ever to have been in the colony, as during his brief term of office he was detained in Boston in negotiations with the New England authorities in raising an army for the ensuing campaign.
		In 1781, when the colony was in its most desperate and trying position he accepted the position of governor, and took part in the siege of Yorktown as commander of the Virginia militia.
	www.electricscotland.com /HISTORY/descendants/chap2.htm (1666 words)

	History of Colonial America - MSN Encarta
		Influenced by religious revivals in Germany and Britain, evangelical ministers traveled through the colonial countryside and made emotional appeals for sinners to repent and to convert to the Christian faith in order to attain salvation.
		By the end of the colonial period in 1763, Americans lived in a new economic, social, and political world.
		As a result of sustained population growth, the mainland colonies had approximately two million residents and a dynamic economy.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_1741502191_6/History_of_Colonial_America.html (1320 words)

	Media Kit-Download
		The Historic Area of Colonial Williamsburg comprises 301 acres, which include 88 original 18th-century structures and hundreds of houses, shops, public buildings, and outbuildings that have been reconstructed on their original foundations.
		The Governor’s Palace: When it was completed in 1722, the residence of Virginia’s royal governor was considered one of the finest buildings in British North America.
		The elegant and imposing residence of seven royal governors and the commonwealth’s first two state governors was reconstructed on its original foundations and opened to the public in April 1934.
	www.colonialwilliamsburg.com /foundation/newsroom/buildingsKit.cfm (1026 words)

	The History Place - Prelude to Revolution
		The letter is sent to assemblies throughout the colonies and also instructs them on the methods the Massachusetts general court is using to oppose the Townshend Acts.
		Colonial lawyers John Adams and Josiah Quincy successfully defend Captain Preston and six of his men, who are acquitted.
		The Royal Governor of Massachusetts, Hutchinson, is opposed to this and orders harbor officials not to let the ship sail out of the harbor unless the tea taxes have been paid.
	www.historyplace.com /unitedstates/revolution/rev-prel.htm (2564 words)

	Governor's Palace at Colonial Williamsburg
		Governor Edward Nott persuaded the General Assembly to authorize its construction with an act passed October 23, 1705, and building began the following summer.
		Each governor made improvements and repairs, but after Gooch left in 1749, the colony's Council concluded the building was in "ruinous condition" and ordered renovations.
		The governor's table was set with the finest linen, silver, and ceramics; his food was delicious, and his wines were excellent.
	www.colonialwilliamsburg.com /Almanack/places/hb/hbpal.cfm (1969 words)

	Boston 1775: artillery
		In the middle of 1775, Burbeck was second-in-command of the American artillery regiment under Col. Richard Gridley.
		In late 1775, Gen. George Washington and the Continental Congress replaced Gridley with Col. Henry Knox, a much younger man whose highest previous rank was a lieutenant in the Boston grenadier company.
		In April 1775, the Massachusetts Provincial Congress asked Col. Richard Gridley, a celebrated veteran of the siege of Fort Louisburg in 1745, to head the artillery force around Boston.
	boston1775.blogspot.com /search/label/artillery (3997 words)

	CalendarHome.com - 1775 - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Year 1775 (MDCCLXXV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).
		April 18 - Paul Revere, William Dawes, and Joseph Warren ride from Boston to Concord in an attempt to warn John Hancock and Sam Adams that the British Armies were coming to seize their weapons and ammunition.
		August 18 - The Spanish established a presidio (fort) and the town came to be called Tucson.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=1775 (1050 words)

	New York State Senate >> About the Senate >> Historical Timeline
		In December of 1653, the governor dismisses demands for increased self-government from a delegation representing the settlers.
		Governor Dongan, his Council and delegates meet at Fort James in New York City and pass the "Charter of Liberties and Privileges" which establishes an elected Assembly to share legislative power with the governor and his Council.
		The governor and senators are to be elected by men who had a freehold worth 100 pounds above indebtedness and assemblymen are to be elected by men who are a county resident for six months, paid taxes, and either owned a freehold worth 20 pounds or rented one for 40 shillings.
	www.senate.state.ny.us /sws/aboutsenate/timeline.html (3416 words)

	The rising of a new nation
		The colons didn't accept the interference of the British parliament with the colonial government and didn't admit how the English parliament, in which there is no representatives from America, can pass laws for the colonies, as soon as the colonial (self-governing) legislature had no right to pass laws for England.
		Most of the new colonies' bills of rights declared principles such as popular sovereignty, rotation in Office, freedom of elections, and an enumeration of fundamental liberties like moderate bail and humane punishment, freedom of the press and of conscience and the right the majority to reform or alter the government.
		In this subject the colonies and the Continental Congress decided to consider these territories as common property to be placed by the congress into free states.
	library.thinkquest.org /C007803/rising_of_a_new_nation.htm (1762 words)

	North Carolina History Project : Timeline: 1664-1775
		Arthur Dobbs, sheriff (1720), Surveyor General (1730), and member of Parliament (1727-1730) in his native Ireland, became one of the five royal colonial governors of North Carolina in 1754.
		Friend of Royal Governor William Tryon and clerk of the Superior Court of Orange County, Edmund Fanning angered many North Carolina Regulators, who accused him of embezzlement and abuses of power.
		In 1756, colonial Governor Arthur Dobbs commissioned the construction of the fort to protect Piedmont settlements during the French and Indian War (1754-1763).
	www.northcarolinahistory.org /encyclopedia/1664-1775/time (854 words)

	Mathews, Benjamin Franklin’s Plans for a Colonial Union
		Governor Shirley of Massachusetts in a letter of March 5, 1754, to Gov. Wentworth of New Hampshire proposes that the subject of colonial union be discussed at Albany.
		When the commissioners from the several colonies met, it appeared that others had brought plans for union also, and a motion was made on June 24 that the commissioners express their opinion on the wisdom of forming a union of all the colonies.
		Both the plan of 1754 and that of 1775 differed from the one of 1643 in making representation proportional—the number of members from each colony to be determined by the contribution made in each case to the general treasury.
	www.dinsdoc.com /mathews-1.htm (5698 words)

	The Settlement of Maryland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Despite the wisdom and liberality of Calvert's rule, the colony met with much trouble, because of Virginia's claim to the territory occupied by the newcomers.
		The proprietor in 1691 was a supporter of James II, because of which the new king, William, took away his colony and appointed the governors himself.
		Colonial Families in the U.S. This database covers the families of the early English colonies in America.
	colonialancestors.com /md/settlement.htm (944 words)

	National Park Service - Colonials and Patriots (Introduction)
		By 1763 most of the colonial assemblies had, through this means, extended their powers to include freedom of debate, the right to judge the qualifications of their own members, regularly scheduled meetings, the right to fix their date of adjournment, and the exclusion of Crown-appointed officers from deliberations.
		Colonial political thought, strongly influenced by John Locke, had evolved two ideas foreign to the British political system—a growing belief in written constitutions and a belief in direct representation on a territorial basis.
		Colonial legislators rejected the Crown's contention that the instructions issued to royal Governors automatically became part of the colonial constitutions.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/colonials-patriots/introg.htm (1298 words)

	Declaration of Taking Up Arms, July 6, 1775
		These devoted colonies were judged to be in such a state, as to present victories without bloodshed, and all the easy emoluments of statutable plunder.
		The inhabitants of Boston being confined within that town by the General, their Governor, and having, in order to procure their dismission, entered into a treaty with him, it was stipulated that the said inhabitants, having deposited their arms with their own magistrates, should have liberty to depart, taking with them their other effects.
		By this perfidy wives are separated from their husbands, children from their parents, the aged and the sick from their relations and friends, who wish to attend and comfort them; and those who have been used to live in plenty and even elegance are reduced to deplorable distress.
	www.constitution.org /bcp/takuparm.htm (1722 words)

	Colonial Hall: The Biographies of the Founding Fathers
		At length they arose in arms in consequence of his removing the powder of the colonial magazine on board of a ship of war, and he was obliged to fly thither himself, with his family, for fear of personal injury.
		In the spring of 1775, this same Governor Dunmore was an accomplice in, and an active promoter of, a scheme to "bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages." The plan adopted was to organize an active co-operation of all the various Indian tribes on the frontier, with the Tories.
		They put forth a Declaration of Rights, the thirteenth section of which asserted, "That it is the right of the British subject in these colonies to petition the King, or either House of Parliament." This right was denied by the colonial governors, claiming it exclusively for the assemblies in their legislative capacity.
	www.colonialhall.com /histdocs/declaration/declarationanalysis27.php (930 words)

	Rhode Island Office of the Secretary of State
		From 1647 to 1663, the colony was governed by a President, with four Assistants.
		On June 3, 1686, King James II appointed Sir Edmund Andros to be Governor of New England, and on September 13, 1686, instructed him to demand the surrender of Rhode Island’s Royal Charter.
		John Coggeshall resumed the office of Deputy Governor, but Walter Clarke did not resume the office of Governor that he had been elected to in 1686.
	www.sec.state.ri.us /library/riinfo/governors (705 words)

	American War of Independence (1775-1782)
		At the same time non-importation collapsed in the colonies as the spread of lawlessness convinced colonial opinion that resistance to the Revenue Act was threatening the stability of society.
		Lord North had considered the colony to be in revolt from February, but failed to appreciate either the scale of the discontent in Massachusetts or that it was also present across the other colonies.
		On 19 April 1775 Gage despatched a column to seize an arms cache thought to be at the town of Concord, only 16 miles from Boston.
	www.rickard.karoo.net /articles/wars_american_independence.html (14585 words)

	The Society of Colonial Wars - The Connecticut Society
		In 1896 it was presented to the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut by Clarence Catlin Hungerford, Esq., a descendant of the Joseph Wadsworth who hid the Charter in the oak tree in 1687.
		The accompanying gavel, also from wood of the Charter Oak, was presented in 1896 by Ralph William Cutler, Esq., a descendant of Governor George Wyllys, the original owner of the tree.
		A sterling silver plaque in the substantial leather carrying case attests that it was presented by Newman Hungerford in 1908; plaques on each of two small boxes for the fl and white balls were dated the same year.
	www.colonialwarsct.org /ct_soc.htm (851 words)

	From Revolution to Reconstruction: Essays: The battle of lexington: The Battle of Lexington
		For the Revolutionaries the year was marked by the succesfull hemming in of the British at Boston, a very creditable performance at the battle of nearby Bunker Hill, the creation of a national army, and the invasion of Canada.
		The British war effort in 1775 was therefore too little, too late and narrowly focussed, though had Gage been successfull in his operations near Boston the consequnces of this would have been less serious.
		Operations began with an attempt to seize a cache of arms reported to be at Concord, a town 16 miles from Boston, past the village of Lexington.
	odur.let.rug.nl /~usa/E/lexington/lexingxx.htm (781 words)

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