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 California During the Revolution
For their part, California governors and presidial commanders found the mission priests to be a haughty lot who sometimes considered themselves superior to the military.
Governors and commanders assumed that the soldiers would remain in California following their tours of duty and local marriages and land grants were strong inducements to this end.
The fathers of the Mexican governors Alvarado and Pico and of the Generals Vallejo and Castro had all begun as presidials, as were the founders of the important California houses of De la Guerra, Ortega, Peralta, Valencia, Sanchez, Bernal, Alviso, Galindo, Carrillo, Moraga, and others.
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 Dictionary of Australian Biography We-Wy
Whyte and the colonial treasurer, Charles Meredith (q.v.) were the first to go on ministerial tours, and as a result vigorous efforts were made to open up the country by constructing roads and bridges.
The colonial office was unable to understand that convict labour could not be made to pay its way, and Wilmot was made responsible for the faults of a system he had no power to amend.
He was also in the forefront of the struggle with Gipps concerning generally the powers of the council and the governor on the land question, and in 1846 moved and carried an address to the governor acquainting him that the council could not entertain a bill he had originated.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Australia
On his arrival in Sydney, Governor Macquarie bluntly informed him that no "Popish missionary" would be allowed to intrude within the settlement, and that every person in the penal colony must be a Protestant.
This colony had been founded in 1836 as a free and "socially superior" Protestant settlement, from which "Papists and pagans" were to have been rigidly excluded.
For a time all the colonies of the Australasian group followed the example initiated by New South Wales in according State aid to the clergy and the denominational schools of the principal religious bodies, Anglicans, Catholics, Presbyterians, and Methodists.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/02113b.htm   (6415 words)

  
 Civil Government of Virginia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The governor is the chief magistrate of the State; the mayor is the chief magistrate of the city.
In case the Governor dies, or is in any way incapacitated for performing the duties of his office, the Lieutenant-Governor shall act; and in case of the inability of both, the President PRO TEMPORE of the Senate shall act.
Abstracts are made out for governor and lieutenant-governor, for attorney-general, for secretary, for treasurer, for superintendent of public instruction, for commissioner of agriculture and immigration, for senators and delegates, for electors for President and Vice-President, for congressmen, and for county, district, and corporation officers voted for at the election.
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 Forfeiture in England and Colonial America
Some were royal colonies (such as Virginia) thought to be under direct control of the Crown; others were chartered colonies (e.g., Massachusetts) in which extensive governing rights were given to a charter company; still others were proprietary colonies (e.g., Maryland and Pennsylvania) in which a single owner had been granted vast authority [Hall, 1989:14].
This created a difficult situation, because slaves, in many of the colonies, were considered chattel and could, theoretically, be included as part of a forfeiture if their owner were convicted and attained for a capital felony.
Given the fact that a number of colonies had abolished the use of forfeiture and corruption of blood, it is not surprising that the Constitutional Convention of 1787 took up the issue.
www.fsu.edu /~crimdo/forfeiture.html   (14355 words)

  
 The Frontier In American History: Chapter III
Riots occurred when the colonial authorities attempted to assert possession, and the matter was at length compromised in 1719 by allowing Litchfield to be settled in accordance with the town grants, while the colony reserved the larger part of northwestern Connecticut.
The diplomacy of New York governors during this period of the Old West, in securing a protectorate over the Six Nations and a consequent claim to their territory, and in holding them aloof from France, constituted the most effective contribution of that colony to the movement of American expansion.
Among the objects of the colony, as specified in the charters, were the relief of the poor and the protection of the frontiers.
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 Encyclopedia: 1820
See also: 1819 in music, other events of 1820, 1821 in music and the list of years in music.
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A Penal Colony is a colony used to detain prisoners and generally use them for penal labor in an economically underdeveloped part of the states (usually colonial) territories, and on a far larger scale than the prison farm.
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The curious medley of religious zeal, philanthropy, and gold-hunger, communicated the first governors under the title of "instructions" did not long keep them in doubt as to which of the three--the observance of religious practises, the kind treatment of the natives, or the remittance of gold--was most essential to secure the king's favor.
Governor Mendoza undertook a punitive expedition to Vieques, in which the cacique Yaureibo was killed; but the Indians had lost that superstitious dread of the Spaniards and of their weapons that had made them submit at first, and they continued their incursions, impeding the island's progress for more than a century.
The attacks seemed to grow bolder, and not till Governor Mendoza himself led an expedition to Vieques, in which the cacique Yaureibo was killed, did the Indians move southeastward to Santa Cruz.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The United States of America
The surrender at the forks of the Ohio was soon known to the governors of Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania.
In the colonies this aroused a bitter spirit; the stamp distributors were induced to abandon their offices by persuasion or intimidation, and delegates from nine colonies met in New York to express disapproval.
This was acquired from France after she had lost the important colonial possession of Hayti, and when Napoleon had decided to renew the war with England.
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 spanish
Indeed, Spanish governors were rarely present and many of the settlers became discouraged and abandoned the island, frustrated that they had no luck finding the gold they so desired.
For some 180 years Spanish Town Square was the home of the British colonial seat of government, the Parish Council and House of Assembly, the island's archives, the Supreme Court and the first King's House, residence of many colonial governors.
All new governors were feted in style and then required to repay the colonial gentry by holding open houses during the sitting of the Assembly, a practice about which pirate-turned-governor Henry Morgan complained cost him some £1,000.
www.jamaica-gleaner.com /pages/history/spanish.html   (1619 words)

  
 Stuart Banner | Why Terra Nullius? Anthropology and Property Law in Early Australia | Law and History Review, 23.1 | ...
The power of a colonial governor was delegated from the Crown, Stephen explained, and the Crown had no power to make laws without Parliament's consent, except in two situations.
As governor, King was the man ultimately responsible for implementing the policy of terra nullius, by granting parcels of Crown land and coordinating the colony's defense against the Aborigines.
The remarks of colonial governors suggest that it was motivated by precisely the feeling Angas expressed—the sense that Aborigines deserved some land because Britons had taken that on which they formerly lived.
www.historycooperative.org /journals/lhr/23.1/banner.html   (12051 words)

  
 Governors Island --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
In 1698 it was reserved for use by colonial governors as a...
In 1637 the Dutch governor Wouter van Twiller bought the island from the Indians, who called it Minnahanonck.
The islands, a British self-governing colony, are near the trade routes approaching the strait.
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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)

  
 Governor, Intendant, and Bishop (from Canada) --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
As in France, there was nothing resembling a democratic system of government in the colony.
The senior official was the governor, appointed by the king.
In the exercise of his almost absolute power he felt more responsible to the king in France than to the people he governed.
www.britannica.com /ebi/article-198160?tocId=198160   (83 words)

  
 Johnson, Guion Griffis, 1900- 1989. Ante-Bellum North Carolina: A Social History: Electronic Edition.
In the colonial period the western boundary of Carolina was undefined.
In general, colonial society was divided into four classes: the gentry, the yeomanry, the indentured servants and poor whites, and the Negroes.
The colonial governors were never able to obtain the legislation necessary for the proper support of the Church.
docsouth.unc.edu /nc/johnson/chapter1.html   (6115 words)

  
 archivists newsletter - BULLDOG, Maryland State Archives
In the colonies, this conflict was known as King George's War (1744-1748), because it involved the family connection of German born and German bred George I. To a large extent, it was fought in Europe, but in the New World, it took place in Canada.
With assistance from the northern colonies, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and an army of civilians, led by William Pepperrell, aided by the British, fleet, the impossible was accomplished.
Governor Shirley now turned to plans for the invasion of Canada by a colonial militia, but the British military were not about to allow such an independent venture for their colonial subjects.
www.mdarchives.state.md.us /msa/refserv/bulldog/bull87/html/bull87b.html   (13172 words)

  
 List of colonial governors in 1816   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Colin Robertson Governor of Assiniboia (1815 - 1816)
Alexander McDonell Governor of Assiniboia (1816 - 1822)
Lieutenant Governor - Thomas Carleton Lieutenant of New Brunswick (1786 - 1817)
www.freeglossary.com /Colonial_governors_in_1816   (1144 words)

  
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In 1796, three years after the act of emancipation, we are told that the colony was flourishing under Toussaint, that the whites lived happily and peaceably on their estates, and the fls continued to work for them.
General Vincent remonstrated solemnly and earnestly against an expedition so preposterous, so cruel and unnecessary; undertaken at a moment when all was peace and quietness in the colony, when the proprietors were in peaceful possession of their estates, when cultivation was making a rapid progress, and the fls were industrious and happy beyond example.
Yet the Foreign Agent of the Liberia Colony Society, to which the same insurmountable objection exists, is a member of the Society of Friends, and I understand has been recently employed in providing gunpowder, etc., for the use of the colony.
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 History of Formal Education
In 1251, Kublai Khan became governor of China, the Inquisition began to use instruments of torture; and in 1253, linen was first manufactured in England.
By 1648, the colonial laws were compiled into a book; and in 1649, Maryland established the Religious Liberty Act.
Thanksgiving was celebrated by all the colonies December 18, 1777.
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 HSP Manuscript Guide: 700-799
Conrad Weiser was a Berks County farmer, tanner and president-judge who served as a colonial Indian agent and interpreter as well as Lieutenant Colonel and commander of the First Battalion of the Pennsylvania Regiment during the French and Indian War.
Proprietary colonies such as Pennsylvania and company-charter colonies such as Rhode Island were grouped together under the heading of Plantation General.
The logbook is a record of voyages on the Congress, commanded by Captain James Biddle, from Norfolk, Va., to the West Indies, 1822 and from Wilmington, Del., to South America and return, 1823-1824; also voyage of Grampus commanded by John D. Sloat, from Hampton Roads, Va. to the African coast, 1824.
www2.hsp.org /collections/manuscripts/0700.htm   (4193 words)

  
 CD-ROM Collection List
THE COLONIAL CLERGY AND THE COLONIAL CHURCHES OF NEW ENGLAND.
Colonial Families of the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Volumes 1-4 by Robert W. Barnes and F. Edward Wright.
Colonial Families of Anne Arundel County, Maryland By Robert Barnes.
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 Connecticut History Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Colonial Connecticut Records (CCR) provides online delivery of the complete, digitized volumes of the Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, 1636-1776.
Contains about 14,000 images of photographs, drawings and prints which may be searched or browsed in a variety of ways, including by keyword, subject, creator, title and date.
Important Dates in the History of the Settlement of the Colony of Connecticut Until Unification with the Colony of New Haven in 1665
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 CDROMs on New York History the TOC of Documentary History of NY
Governor Dongan's report on the state of the Province, 1687.
The Colonial History of New York Under the Dutch in 5 volumes.
History of all the Colonies for the years 1775 and 1776.
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 Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs: Warren   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
From 1864 to 1868 he served on the staff of Governor Hoffman, with the rank of colonel.
Through his colonial and revolutionary ancestry, he derives membership in the patriotic orders.
He is regent of William Floyd Chapter, Sons of the Revolution; a member of the Founders and Patriots, Colonial Wars, Colonial Governors, and Mayflower societies.
www.schenectadyhistory.org /families/hmgfm/warren-1.html   (5893 words)

  
 Eleanor Wilson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Among these was Eleanor, wife of Robert Wilson, of Steel Creek-a woman of singular energy of mind and devoted to the American cause.
This bold act of a county meeting was immediately published in the royal journals in Charleston, and copies were sent to the King of Great Britain by his Colonial governors, with letters representing the movement of Charlottetown as a dangerous one, to be immediately suppressed.
In this crisis there were not wanting citizens who shook their heads, and curling their lips in scorn, characterized the actors in this opening scene of the bloody drama of the Revolution as madmen, rebels and traitors, who were kindly admonished to look out for their necks.
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 212. More than Merely Players
New York in the year 1819 was no exception.
Reuben Eaton Fenton would become the state's 24th governor (not counting the preceding thirty-some colonial governors).
Vice-President Daniel D. Tompkins, New York's governor unseated by Clinton in 1817, to plan strategy for Tompkins's comeback, as governor for a second time.
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 Simon Bolivar --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. byname The Liberator, Spanish El Libertador South American soldier and statesman who led the revolutions against Spanish rule in New Granada (renamed Colombia, or Gran Colombia, in 1819 and including Venezuela and Ecuador as well as Colombia), Peru, and Upper Peru (Bolivia).
Confederate general during the U.S. Civil War (1861–65) and governor of Kentucky (1887–91).
U.S. Army general in World War II who climaxed his career of more than 41 years by leading the successful invasion of the Japanese-held Ryukyu Islands in the Pacific Ocean (1945).
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 ASU Libraries: Primary Sources in History- United States   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
This collection includes correspondence between the colonial clergy and the Bishop of London, dealing with most of the important problems confronting the church, including Canada, the West Indies and the thirteen American colonies.
The Journals are daily records of the proceedings of the elected lower house and cover problems common to colonial life in America: defense, finance, farming, the slave trade, crime, education and relations with the Indians.
Includes selected correspondence between colonial governors and colonists; reports from the governors to officials in Britain commenting on events in the colonies; and dispatches from Britain to the governors, including royal instructions and reports of the Board of Trade.
www.asu.edu /lib/hayden/ref/his/primary/united_states.htm   (12564 words)

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