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	List of colonial governors in 1816 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Iceland - Johan Carl Thuerecht Castenschiold, Governor of Iceland (1813-1819)
		Saint-Barthélemy - Bernt Robert Gustaf Stackelberg, Governor of Saint-Barthélemy (1812-1816); Johan Samuel Rosensvärd, Governor of Saint-Barthélemy (1816-1818)
		Lieutenant Governor - Thomas Carleton, Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick (1786-1817)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_colonial_governors_in_1816 (941 words)

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		Nathaniel Alexander (1756-1808), thirteenth Governor (1805-07), was of Scottish descent.
		1870), forty-sixth Governor (1913-15) is of Scottish ancestry.
		1848), thirty-second Governor (1896-1900), were-both grandsons of Scots.
	www.gutenberg.org /files/15162/15162.txt (18243 words)

	North Carolina Governors
		North Carolina's history as an organized governing system led by a governor may be viewed in five chronological stages: the Virginia colony, the southern plantation, the Lords Proprietors, the Royal colony, and the state of North Carolina.
		A chronology of governors serving during each of these stages is listed at the bottom of the page.
		Theactions of the Virginia governor outpaced his authority under the English Crown, and the Southern Plantation and its Commander were short-lived.
	statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us /nc/stgovt/governor.htm#royal (958 words)

	List of colonial governors in 1817 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		1816 colonial governors - Events of 1817 - 1818 colonial governors - Colonial governors by year
		Angola - Luís da Mota Fêo e Torres, Governor of Angola (1816-1819)
		This page was last modified 19:38, 28 August 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_colonial_governors_in_1817 (71 words)

	Land, Agriculture-Mitchell
		What was described as a valuable colony was given up because of the number of proprietors, disagreements and disputes among them, their inability to settle the matter of quitrents, or annual land use fees, in South Carolina, and their fear that they would lose the colony in case of invasion by Spain.
		Both Governor Alexander Spotswood of Virginia and Moseley recommended to Carteret that his one-eighth part of Carolina be set up as a single district and that the northern boundary be the Virginia-North Carolina line, since that was the only boundary in the entire province that had been fixed.
		The 1773 assembly reminded Henry Eustace McCulloh, the agent of the colony, that the Granville land office had been closed to the “inconvenience and grievance” of the settlers in the province; McCulloh was asked to use his utmost endeavors to induce the Crown to purchase the district.
	www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us /sections/hp/colonial/Nchr/Subjects/mitchell.htm (10475 words)

	Archives: Massachusetts Archives Collection
		Governor Andros was imprisoned and the government overthrown on April 18, 1689, shortly after the news of the English Glorious Revolution reached Boston.
		The governor was the commander-in-chief of the militia and appointed all military officials; he had the right to summon, adjourn, and prorogue the General Court.
		The William and Mary Charter was modified in 1725 by the Explanatory Charter, issued by King George I. Further strengthening the position of the governor, this charter gave the governor the sole power to adjourn the House of Representatives and the right to negate the House's choice of their speaker.
	www.sec.state.ma.us /arc/arccol/colmac.htm (3520 words)

	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.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nR/travel/charleston/text.htm (16956 words)

	Central NY Area Fact Sheet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		For nearly a century, the area was the scene of intensive conflict among the British, the French and the Indians.
		A year later, British commanders sought to split the colonies by bringing armies north from New York City, south from Canada along the Champlain Valley, and eastward from the Niagara Frontier down the Mohawk River to converge on Albany.
		It was July 4, 1817, and they came to participate in ceremonies marking the turning of the first shovel of dirt for the Erie Canal, just west of the present downtown.
	www.rl.af.mil /div/IFO/IFOI/IFOIPA/FactSheet/ROME-CTY.html (923 words)

	Connecticut's Heritage Gateway
		He points to the many procedures and penalties that had no statutory basis, but became part of the colony's customary system of jurisprudence. This analysis, by Connecticut's most distinguished chief justice of the twentieth century, is based on volume I of the Public Record of the Colony of Connecticut.
		The "Riot" was not a unique occurrence but merely "the most visible demonstration, and culmination, of a long period of gathering disorder as Connecticut made the transition from colony to province." The cause lay in population pressure on land held in large lots by speculators.
		Religion and politics were much intertwined during the colonial period and Maria Louise Greene's magnificent study, the Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1905, reprinted by Da Capo in 1970), based on her 1895 Yale dissertation, includes a great deal of political matter which must not be overlooked.
	www.ctheritage.org /biography/colonialperiod/colonialgovtlaw.htm (2639 words)

	James Otis
		The political climate of 1750-1761 saw the new colonies struggling with Britain for representation and equality.
		In 1760, William Pitt sent letters to colonial governors ordering them to put a stop to all smuggling and "make examples of those who were caught at it" (Galvin 12).
		Governor Bernard, to solidify his fight against smugglers, chose crown loyalist Thomas Hutchinson for the position of chief justice of the Superior Court over James Otis's father.
	www.mnstate.edu /borchers/Research/otis.htm (2584 words)

	The Project Gutenberg eBook of Scotland's Mark On America, by George Fraser Black. Ph.D.
		Of the colonial Governors sent from Britain to the American Colonies before the Revolution and of Provincial Governors from that time to 1789, a large number were of Scottish birth or descent.
		Presbyterians in the Colonies, being dissenters, were untrammeled and free to speak their mind in defence of their country's right, and history shows that they did not fail their opportunity: the doctrine of passive obedience never finding favor with them.
		Edward Moody McCook, fifth and seventh Governor (1869-73, 1874-75), was of Scottish descent.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/1/5/1/6/15162/15162-h/15162-h.htm (16856 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)

	North Carolina History
		After years of having governors elected by the state senate, Edward B. Dudley becomes the first popularly elected governor of North Carolina.
		The North Carolina Fund, established by Governor Sanford, works to end poverty in North Carolina and becomes a model for programs across the nation.
		Governor Jim Hunt is re-elected to a record 4th term.
	www.secretary.state.nc.us /kidspg/history.htm (1334 words)

	McKean, Thomas - Delaware Colonial Leader & Governor
		Thomas McKean was born in New London Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania on March 19, 1734 the son of William & Letitia Finney McKean.
		In 1799 he was elected as the Governor of Pennslyvania where he served until 1808.
		Thomas McKean died in Philadelphia on June 24, 1817 at the age of eighy-three where he was interred in Laurel Hill Cemetery.
	www.russpickett.com /history/keanbio.htm (559 words)

	GOVERNORS OF CONNECTICUT - Online Information article about GOVERNORS OF CONNECTICUT
		For the sources, see Colonial Records of Connecticut (15 vols., Hartford, 1850-189o); The Records of the Colony and the See also:
		Governor Joseph Talcott.; and the Papers (New Haven, 1865 et seq.) of the New Haven Colony Historical Society are extremely valuable for See also:
		relating to the colonial and state periods, now in the state library at Hartford, have never been published.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /GOA_GRA/GOVERNORS_OF_CONNECTICUT.html (588 words)

	State Governors of Louisiana: William Charles Cole Claiborne
		In 1625 he was commissioned a member of the cCouncil and the Secretary of State of the Colony of Virginia by Charles I. William C. C> Claibornes brother Nathaniel H. was a member of Congress from Virginia for 20 years.
		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.
	www.enlou.com /people/claibornewcc-bio.htm (883 words)

	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)

	continental and colonial currency (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		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.
	www.macsoldpapermoney.com /money.htm (1608 words)

	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)

	The Governors of Mississippi
		Rand includes only selected governors in his book on great men in the history of the state.
		[MISS F 340.S9] Governors of the territory and state are included in order of their first term of office.
		One governor and one governor's wife have been subjects of oral histories.
	www.lib.usm.edu /~spcol/msana/msanapath_miss_gov.htm (681 words)

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		It was here that the upper waters of the Mohawk River (and access to the Atlantic) were separated by only about two miles from Wood Creek and a navigable water route to the Great Lakes.
		A decade later, British officials and representatives of the Iroquois Confederacy met at the fort to sign a treaty which ended the policy of British kings and colonial governors ceding Indian lands for political favors.
		In 1784, the Treaty of Fort Stanwix was signed, closing the last phase of the American Revolution by ending hostilities with the Indians and allowing settlers to move westward --- without fear --- to new frontiers.
	www.rl.af.mil /div/IFO/IFOI/IFOIPA/FactSheet/ROME-CTY.doc (936 words)

	Notable Backuses
		Jonathan Trumbull, friend and confidant of George Washington and Governor of Connecticut during the Revolution, was not a Backus descendant.
		Most colonial governors at the time of independence were "tory", or "pro-England".
		Jonathan Trumbull is the only governor before the revolution who was a revolutionary and stayed on as governor through the Revolution.
	members.tripod.com /~ntgen/bw/bkus_fmus8.html (1449 words)

	Pre-Republic Governors of Texas - Texas State Library
		According to MARTINEZ PACHECO, RAFAEL, The Handbook of Texas Online, Pacheco was appointed ad interim governor of Texas December 5, 1786 and his removal was approved by the viceroy on October 18, 1790.
		The list of governors in the 1998-1999 Texas Almanac gives his term of office at 1787-1788, and notes that from 1788 to 1789, the office of governor was suppressed, and the area was ruled by a presidial captain.
		According to MUNOZ, MANUEL, The Handbook of Texas Online, Elguezabal became interim governor in 1797 because Munoz was ill, and continued in this post following Munoz' death in July of 1799.
	www.tsl.state.tx.us /ref/abouttx/prerepub.html (246 words)

	Bermuda and Great Britain
		The Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Bermuda is appointed by the FCO and approved by The Queen (on the advice of the British Government in London) after consultation with the Premier of Bermuda.
		The Governor since April 2002 is Sir John Vereker, 59 in 2004, most recently Permanent Secretary of the Department of International Development in London.
		The Aide-de-Camp (ADC) to the Governor is a Bermuda Regiment officer.
	www.bermuda-online.org /colonial.htm (4786 words)

	Historical Roster of the Governors of Georgia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The term of office of the Governor is defined in each of the ten State Constitutions as follows:
		He served 67 days but vacated office when the State Supreme Court ruled that the Constitutional provision under which he was elected was not applicable in that instance and Ellis Arnall's term continued until the next election.
		When Melvin E. Thompson was sworn in as Lieutenant Governor, Arnall resigned and Thompson served as Acting Governor until the next General Election.
	www.georgiaarchives.org /what_do_we_have/govhisroster.htm (396 words)

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		Governors of New York as colony and State prior to 1900
		______________________________________________ NEW YORK STATE--LIST OF GOVERNORS The following is a list of the Governors of New York as a colony and a State.
		(New York, 1900) ; Flagg and Jennings, "Bibliography of New York Colonial History," in New York State Library Bulletin of Bibliography, vol.
	www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com /Civil/Gov.Pre1900.html (87 words)

	Dutch Colonial History Bibliography CENTURIES XVII-XVIII Voc, Wic
		Index: Spanish marriage, the expedition of the vassals, the road to Potosì, governor of Rio de Janeiro 1637-1643, general of the Brazil fleets, Angola the fl mother, captain-general of the South, "a notable old stickler".
		A historical study of the role of theological concepts in the development of Afrikaner group identity during the period when South Africa was a Dutch colony.
		- Guelke, Leonard "The anatomy of a colonial settler population: Cape Colony, 1657-1750"
	www.colonialvoyage.com /biblioD.html (5036 words)

	Sir John Thomas Duckworth, 1810-1812: Government House
		In 1811, new British legislation allowed fishing ship rooms in St. John's to be converted into private property.
		He insisted that buildings on these lands should be of stone or brick, and the streets of proper width.
		Though he realized that the old fishery laws were obsolete, Duckworth did not believe that a legislature and full colonial government were necessary.
	www.heritage.nf.ca /govhouse/governors/g38.html (340 words)

	HSP Manuscript Guide: 100-199
		Autograph letters and portraits, 1690-1921, of lawyers, judges, and others involved in the administration of law and justice in the courts of Pennsylvania, and of other states, from the early colonial period to the present.
		Among the letters are those of governors of Pennsylvania, 1789-1920; attorneys general of Pennsylvania, 1791-1920; members of the colonial bar, 1690-1775; members of the High Court of Error, 1761-1815; lawyers of the Revolutionary period, 1776-1801; justices of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, 1712-1921; and others.
		Miscellaneous papers relate to domestic affairs, local government, land transaction; correspondence of prominent men, illustrative of social, economic, legal, and political affairs during the colonial period; a volume of documents deals with the British army in Chester County, 1777.
	www2.hsp.org /collections/manuscripts/0100.htm (7460 words)

	Lawyer and Lumberman
		This Wanton family furnished five colonial governors, and is known as the "Fighting Quakers." John Scott's father, Richard, was "the first convert in Providence...
		The colony had forbidden servitude of Indians since 1674, but the incensed settlers were not willing to abide by that law so soon after the war.
		Other colonies were not so generous, either killing their vanquished foes or selling them to slavery in distant lands.
	whipple.org /charles/johnandjonathan (17369 words)

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