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  List of colonial governors in 1801 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Angola - Miguel António de Melo, Governor of Angola (1797-1802)
Macau - Jose Manuel Pinto, Governor of Macau (1800-1803)
New South Wales - Philip Gidley King, Governor of New South Wales (1800-1806).
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 COLONIAL LIFE IN VIRGINIA
George Yeardley was elected Colonial Governor and he met with the newly created legislative body to establish the laws of the infant colony.
Berkeley was reappointed Governor of Virginia in 1660.
Governor Berkeley, himself after meeting much resistance from the yeoman class in his second term (resulting in Bacon's rebellion), lost governing control of the colony and returned to England where he died.
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 Kingston, First Captial of New York   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Governor Morris, a delegate from the county of Westchester, then but twenty-four years of age, signalized his entrance into public life, by urging immediate action, in a speech remarkable for its courage and radicalism, and its strong presentation of the though of the time.
Their examples, efforts and contributions in educating the nerving the colonies to the Declaration of Independence, in the events which led to the recognition of the Republic, and in molding the internal regulations and foreign policy of the new government, are the special pride of New York and the glory of the nation.
Governor Morris, of Westchester, moved, and it was seconded, that the members be permitted to smoke in the Convention chamber, to prevent bad effects from the disagreeable effluvia arising from the jail below.
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 D. L. Swain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Born in Buncombe County in January 4, 1801, David Lowry Swain was the youngest state governor at the time of his election.
During Governor Swain's term in the governor's office, the foundation for the new Capitol was laid, the prior State House having being destroyed by fire.
During the period of and immediately after the War Between the States, he was able to keep the University open for students until 1868, when he was forced to close the doors.
www.itpi.dpi.state.nc.us /governors/swain.html   (228 words)

  
 New York State Senate >> About the Senate >> Historical Timeline   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
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)

  
 Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, V.2, Entry 298, MARYLAND: Library of Economics and Liberty
The colony was established as a refuge for Roman Catholics, but absolute toleration was given from the first settlement to the religious beliefs of all settlers.
The governor was to be chosen annually by the legislature on joint ballot, with a council of five.
Its principal changes were as follows: the governor was to hold office for four years, senators for four years, and delegates for two years; a new apportionment of delegates was made; and the legislature was to create corporations by general laws, never to grant state and to corporations, and never to abolish slavery.
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Charles Foster (1825-1904), Governor of Ohio (1880-84), was Secretary of the Treasury from 1891 to 1893.
Nathaniel Alexander (1756-1808), thirteenth Governor (1805-07), was of Scottish descent.
1848), thirty-second Governor (1896-1900), were-both grandsons of Scots.
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 President of the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The king of Great Britain and the governor of New York have at all times the entire command of all the militia within their several jurisdictions.
William Henry Harrison, born February 9, 1773 in British colonial territory, was the last person to become President who was not a natural-born U.S. citizen.
December 14, 1799 – March 4, 1801: from the death of Washington to the end of John Adams's term (no former President died until John Adams and Jefferson on July 4, 1826).
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 Thomas Jefferson
The house of burgesses of 1769, and its successors in 1773 and 1774, were dissolved by the governor for their action on the subject of colonial grievances and intercolonial co-operation.
Jefferson was prominent in all; was a signer of the Virginia agreement of non-importation and economy (1769); and was elected in 1774 to the first Virginia convention, called to consider the state of the colony and advance intercolonial union.
In 1779, at almost the gloomiest stage of the war in the southern states, Jefferson succeeded Patrick Henry as the governor of Virginia, being the second to hold that office after the organization of the state government.
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 Cultural & Political Chronology (1750-1783)
With the death of John Robinson, Speaker of the House of Burgesses and treasurer of the colony of Virginia, a scandal came to light in Virginia.
Richard Hayward's statue of the deceased Virginia governor Lord Botetourt was installed at the Capitol in Williamsburg.
George III declared the colonies in a state of rebellion and threatened to deal harshly with traitors.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Lieutenant-Governor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Oliver was elected to the provincial council in 1746 and later served as secretary of the province.
Appointed in 1710, he was officially lieutenant governor under the nominal governorship of George Hamilton, 1st earl of Orkney.
He came to the colony as lieutenant governor in 1758, and in the absence of the governors—the earl of Loudon (1756-63) and Jeffery Amherst (1763-68)—he was the chief administrative officer.
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 List of colonial governors in 1802 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1801 colonial governors - Events of 1802 - 1803 colonial governors - Colonial governors by year
Miguel António de Melo, Governor of Angola (1797-1802)
Fernão António de Noronha, Governor of Angola (1802-1806)
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 Text Only Version--Charleston's Historic Religious and Community Buildings
Colonial Charleston was the wealthiest of English cities in America, and the city's elite maintained close ties with London.
Philip's might be considered anticipatory of the Colonial Revival movement of the late 19th century, if it were not for the motivation of the conservative vestry and congregation.
In 1902 the Colonial Dames acquired the pre-revolutionary Powder Magazine, one of the oldest remaining structures associated with the permanent settlement of Charleston of 1680.
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 EDUCATIONAL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO, which is affiliated to the University of New Zealand, was originally founded in 1869 by ordinance of the Otago Provincial Council, by which act the province of Otago led the van towards the establishment of university education in the Colony.
The supreme governing body of the university is the council, the original mem­bers of which hold office for life; the duty of filling up vacancies devolving upon the Governor in Council since the abolition of the provinces.
Prior to coming to the Colonies he declined the professorship of natural philosophy at the Andersonian Col­lege, Glasgow, and was unanimously elected out of twenty-three candidates as professor of natural science at the University of Otago.
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 American Colonist's Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The Westminster Confession of Faith (1646) In addition to being the decree of Parliament as the standard for Christian doctrine in the British Kingdom, it was adopted as the official statement of belief for the colonies of Massachusetts and Connecticut.
Declaration of Colonial Rights of the Continental Congress (1774) John Adams said that the Declaration of Independence was not much more than a recapitulation of this document.
According to Adams, the substance of the Declaration is contained in the in the Declaration of Colonial Rights of the Continental Congress, and the essence of it is contained in The Rights of the Colonists, written before the first Congress met, by Samuel Adams.
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 GOVERNORS OF NORTH - Online Information article about GOVERNORS OF NORTH
For the colonial and revolutionary periods there are some excellent studies.
Defence of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence (1909), are perhaps the best of the attempts to prove the same Declaration genuine.
sources are The Colonial Records of North Carolina (Jo vols., Raleigh, 1886-189o) ; and The State Records of North Carolina (vols.
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 Continental Fur Trade And Exploration
The Indian trade was one of the British colonies' principal enterprises, and efforts of the mother country to regulate it was a cause of colonial discontent.
Desperate colonial governors might plead for speedy help "to restrain the usurpation of the English," but Madrid was occupied with revolutionary Europe.
In September, 1801, when France and Britain were negotiating the short-lived Peace of Amiens, Secretary of State James Madison warned France that it was in the interest of the United States "to favor any voluntary or compulsive transfer" of Louisiana from Spain to Great Britain as part of a price for the peace.
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 1801 - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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July 18 - Napoleon signs the Concordat of 1801 with the pope.
1801, Events, Ongoing events, Births, Deaths and 1801.
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 Colonial Capitals of the Dominion of Virginia
Governor Nott, who is buried in Bruton churchyard, procured through the Assembly an act for building the palace and a appropriation of œ3,000 for the same.
At the same time a detachment of sailors and marines from the British ship "Fowey" had arrived to guard the Governor s person, and a letter from the commander of the gun-boat to the president of the council, threatening to fire upon the town should the governor be molested or attacked.
Washington was distinguished among the belles, who graced the vice-regal courts of the colonial governors Gooch and Dinwiddie, for her beauty and intellect.
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 ACVA : Visitors Guide : History 101
On April 14, 1755, an event occurred in the city that began a twenty-year period of civil unrest in the Colonies that culminated in war.
On that date, five Royal Governors of the colonies met with British General Edward Braddock at his headquarters, the Carlyle House, to discuss ways to fund British military campaigns in the French and Indian War.
Formally accepted by Congress in 1801, Alexandria remained under the aegis of the new federal government until it was retroceded to Virginia in 1847.
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Renamed "Nutten Island" for its hickory, oak and chestnut trees, it passed into British hands in 1664 and was set aside as a pastoral vacationland and game preserve for hardworking, stressed-out colonial governors.
In the florid lexicon of the time, it also was called "The Smiling Garden of the Sovereign of the Province." The British Crown stationed "Royal Americans" there as a defense force in 1755, and the island was in continuous military use thereafter.
Next to the Governors Island bowling alley was a Burger King, which had the distinction of holding a liquor license.
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As a pashalik of the Ottoman Empire, Egypt had been divided into several provinces, each of which was placed under a Mamluk bey (governor) reponsible to the pasha, who in turn answered to the Porte, the term used for the Ottoman government referring to the Sublime Porte, or high gate, of the grand vizier's building.
The governor general presided over this council, which included the inspector general; the civil, legal, and financial secretaries; and two to four other British officials appointed by the governor general.
But in Britain's bloody colonial history, this was one instance where common sense ruled over imperial greed, the British letting Gordon die, but then, his death forced the hand of the British, and they had to kill more locals.
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 The Land of the 'Free'?
Defense of the American colonies in the French and Indian War (1754-63) and Pontiac's Rebellion (1763-64) were costly affairs for Great Britain, and Prime Minister George Grenville hoped to recover some of these costs by taxing the colonists.
Governor Sir Guy Carleton rejected their demand, and on December 9, the Patriots commenced a bombardment of Quebec.
In the summer of 1777, with the colonies fighting a war for independence, Mason feared attacks by the native allies of the British.
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 West Indies Papers - UF Special and Area Studies Collections
Correspondence of the various colonial governors of the British West Indies together with financial accounts and pay warrants.
Correspondence of the various colonial governors of the British West Indies, together with financial accounts and pay warrants, during the latter part of the 18th and the early half of the 19th centuries.
Most are in English, including those from foreign colonies dating from periods of British occupation.
web.uflib.ufl.edu /spec/manuscript/guides/WestIndies.htm   (835 words)

  
 1801 - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
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You can find it there under the keyword 1801 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1801)The list of previous authors is available here: version history (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1801andaction=history).
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 Complete List of NYS Attorneys General
Between 1684 and 1777, the Colonial Attorneys General were appointed by the King of England, or the Colonial Governors on the Crown's behalf.
Until 1702 he was appointed by the governor, after which he was commissioned by the Crown.
By the Constitution the governor was required to do the appointing with the "advice and consent of the council." But in practice it subordinated the governor to the council whenever a majority of the assembly was politically opposed to him, and the annual election of the council greatly increased chances of such opposition.
www.oag.state.ny.us /previous_aglist.html   (922 words)

  
 State Governors of Louisiana: William Charles Cole Claiborne
Member of Tennessee constitutional convention in Knoxville where he is lauded by territorial governor Blount and named by the new state governor Sevier to the supreme court.
He is confirmed as governor January 26, 1802 at the age of 26.
One of his most important acts as territorial governor of Mississippi was the settlement of chaotic land titles, which method was used by the Federal government in future settlements.
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 Early History of Wood County
In 1783, he was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General and put in command of the troops defending the border against Indian raids.
In 1784, he was elected a member of the Virginia executive council and, by seniority, was the lieutenant Governor of the State.
He was an ardent opponent of slavery throughout his lifetime and served as President of the society for the promotion of abolition of slavery in Virginia in 1801.
www.polsci.wvu.edu /wv/Wood/woohistory.html   (939 words)

  
 continental and colonial currency
Vellum document dated August 20, 1795 Signed by Thomas Mifflin, Governor and James Trimble, Deputy Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and witnessed by the Honorable Edward Shippen, Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court as well as many other fine signatures.
This deed is for the purchase of a tract of land in Franklin County, Georgia from Leroy Pope to Edmund Hall for the sum of twelve thousand pounds.
Thomas Mifflin aide-de-camp to George Washington and a signer of the United States Constitution was elected governor of Pennsylvania for three consecutive terms.
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