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	PHMC: Governors of Pennylvania
		He was elected as to the General Assembly in 1835 and again in 1838 and 1841.
		Governor Francis Shunk had been elected to a second term that same year, but tuberculosis forced him to resign on July 9, just eleven days before his death.
		Under the state constitution of 1838, there was no lieutenant governor, so succession went to the Speaker of the senate.
	www.phmc.state.pa.us /bah/dam/governors/johnston.asp?secid=31 (869 words)

	Hirst, Free Trade and Other Fundamental Doctrines of the Manchester School, Part IV, Essay 2: Library of Economics and ...
		Colonies are supposed to be useful either for political or commercial purposes, and with reference to these objects they should be divided into two classes, which should be considered separately; first, military stations, acquired chiefly for political purposes; secondly, colonies, properly so-called, supposed to be of value chiefly for commercial objects.
		However, the governor at once hastened to the frontier; by his orders Kaffirland was invaded; but every arrangement was so ill made that our troops were repulsed; twice our baggage-waggons were cut off; and the victorious Kaffirs, in their turn, invaded the colony.
		In 1842 the free population of that colony amounted to 37,000, and on the average of the four years ending with 1844, the expenditure, exclusive of immigration, was £161,000, or at the enormous rate of £4 6s.
	www.econlib.org /library/YPDBooks/Hirst/hrstMS23.html (11852 words)

	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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	Ward Governors and Lieutenant Governors
		He was a Deputy and Clark of the Rhode Island Colonial Assembly in 1714 and recorder from 1714-1730.
		He was elected Governor of the Colony in May 1762.
		He was the only one of the 13 Colonial Governors who refused to take an oath to sustain and enforce the law.
	www.geocities.com /~rewoodham/wardgovr.html (1354 words)

	The Burnett Family
		William Burnet, colonial governor who was born at The Hague during his father's temporary residence there, was the son of Gilbert Burnet, the celebrated Bishop of Salisbury.
		Union soldier, lawyer was born in Youngstown, Ohio, the son of Henry and Nancy Jones Burnett, and a descendant of William Burnet, colonial governor of New York.
		A year later at Governor Morton's request, he was sent to Indiana to prosecute members of the Knights of the Golden Circle and later took part in the cases growing out of the Chicago conspiracy to liberate the Confederate prisoners at Camp Douglas.
	www.iment.com /maida/familytree/burnett/burnett.htm (1773 words)

	State Agency Histories, Maryland State Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		In 1838, voters from the Eastern district elected the governor.
		In 1844, the governor was elected by voters from the Southern district.
		The governor oversaw the election of commissioners to the newly created Board of Public Works that supervised all public works in which the state was a stockholder or creditor.
	guide.mdsa.net /history.cfm?agency=54 (545 words)

	Evolution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Governors in the legislative colonies were severely constrained in their conduct of office.
		Although the colonies produced numerous worthy and dedicated men whose service to the proprietary interest was balanced (in so far as slavery permitted) by a sincere paternalistic commitment to the welfare of the whole community, the psychology of the oligarchs -even the most fair minded -was shaped by slavery.
		The Governor was not required to accept their advice, nor were the councillors compelled to endorse legislation recommended by the Crown.
	www.stluciagovernmenthouse.com /evolution.html (2068 words)

	Encyclopedia: 1837 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Events and Trends Electromagnetic induction discovered by Michael Faraday Dutch-speaking farmers known as Voortrekkers emigrate northwards from the Cape Colony Croquet invented in Ireland Railroad construction begins in earnest in the United States Egba refugees fleeing the Yoruba civil wars found the city of Abeokuta in south-west Nigeria...
		Osceola (1804-January 20, 1838) was a leader of the Seminole Indians in Florida.
		Flag used by the Patriotes between 1832 and 1838 The Lower Canada Rebellion is the name given to the armed conflict between the rebels of Lower Canada (now Quebec) and the British colonial power of that province.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1837 (4383 words)

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		By the calendar in use in England and her colonies, the year began March 25th; March therefore was called the first month, although twenty-four days of it were in the old year.
		Life in colonial America was hard and dangerous, medical skill was both primitive and scarce, and death was no stranger to the average family.
		Governor Winthrop says that Rev. Batchelder suffered much at the hands of the Bishops; and in consequence of these persecutions he went to Holland and resided there several years.
	www.geocities.com /brett_clippingdale/files/Melissa_Jenkins-Ancestors.doc (21329 words)

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		Colonial history, thanks to colonial freedom, is almost wholly free from the distorting influence of political passion.
		Ireland was the oldest and the nearest of the Colonies.
		Egerton, in his "Origin and Growth of the English Colonies," reckons that in 1775 a sixth part of the thirteen insurrectionary Colonies was composed of Scots-Irish exiles from Ulster, and that half the Protestant population of that Province emigrated to those Colonies between 1730 and 1770.
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	1838 -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		1838 was a (additional info and facts about common year starting on Monday) common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar).
		January 6 - (United States portrait painter who patented the telegraph and developed the Morse code (1791-1872)) Samuel Morse first publicly demonstrates the (Apparatus used to communicate at a distance over a wire (usually in Morse code)) telegraph.
		September 1 - (United States explorer who (with Meriwether Lewis) led an expedition from St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River; Clark was responsible for making maps of the area (1770-1838)) William Clark, American explorer (b.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/1/18/1838.htm (996 words)

	National Governors Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		ANDRE B. ROMAN, Louisiana's ninth and eleventh governors, was born in Opelousas County, Louisiana on March 5, 1795.
		Roman was elected governor in a special election that was held on July 5, 1830.
		Governor Andre B. Roman died on January 26, 1866, and was buried at the Oak Alley Plantation Cemetery in St. James, Louisiana.
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	Governors of the Philippines during the Spanish colonial period
		PEDRO DE SARRIO—Appointed governor (ad interim) for the second time, November 22, 1787, on departure of Basco; insurrection in Ilocos because of tobacco monopoly, 1787; death of archbishop Santa Justa y Rufina, December 15, 1787; term as governor, November 22, 1787-July 1, 1788.
		JOSÉ MALCAMPO Y MONJE—Marques de San Rafael and rear-admiral; becomes governor, June 18, 1874; conquest of Joló, 1876; given title of count of Mindanao, December 19, 1876; mutiny of artillerymen; term as governor, June 18, 1874-February 28, 1877; given titles of count of Joló and viscount of Mindanao, July 20, 1877.
		RAMON BLANCO—Becomes governor, 1893; electric light established in Manila, 1895; formation of Katipunan society; outbreak of insurrection, August 30, 1896; Blanco opposed by ecclesiastics; term as governor, 1893-December 9 (date of royal decree removing him), 1896.
	www.zamboanga.com /html/Spanish_governors_of_the_philippines.htm (3249 words)

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		The English colonies were divided in the middle by the Dutch at New Amsterdam and the Swedes on the Delaware.
		All of the colonies were taxed at the same time by this scheme, which was contrary to their belief that they should be taxed only by their legislatures; although the proceeds of the taxes were to have been devoted to the defence of the colonies.
		Thus it happened that Velasquez, the Spanish Governor of Cuba, designed to send a fleet to explore the mainland, to gain what treasure he could by peaceful barter with the natives, and by any means he could to secure their conversion.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/1/2/8/4/12845/12845-8.txt (21244 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)

	continental and colonial currency
		2 Colonial Governors of Delaware and Notorious Tory
		A Patent Deed issued to George and Frederick Knapp for a parcel of land in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
		Member of the Continental Congress (1776-1778, 1783 and 1784), member of the governor’s Council (1784-1803).
	www.macsoldpapermoney.com /money.htm (1967 words)

	Bruton Parish Church
		The same day, Governor Alexander Spotswood provided an architectural drawing of a cruciform design 75 feet long and 28 feet wide "in the clear," with two wings 22 feet wide and 19 feet long.
		Governor Spotswood was provided with a canopied chair on a platform inside the rail opposite the raised pulpit with its overhanging sounding board.
		Among the Williamsburg notables buried beneath the marble flagstones inside the church was Governor Francis Fauquier, one of the best loved of the colonial governors, who died in 1768.
	www.history.org /Almanack/places/hb/hbbruch.cfm (1170 words)

	Jamaica Gleaner : Pieces of the Past: The History of Spanish Town
		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/story0049.htm (2152 words)

	marriage bonds. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Most early records were usually kept by colonial governors and can now be found in state archives.
		"Formed in 1838 from Orange county, the new county encompassed 155 square miles and was named for General Nathaniel Greene, Commander of the Army of the South in the Revolutionary War.
		Because of a scarcity of ministers, the colony required that all persons wishing to be married by license must go to the county court clerk and give bond with sufficient security (usually $150 by the late eighteenth century) that there was no lawful cause to prevent the marriage.
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	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)

	Governors of Connecticut :: CT Governors ::
		The State of Connecticut is rich in political history and has many close ties with the establishment of the United States of America.
		Prior to becoming the 5th state in the Union, Governors led the growth of the Connecticut Colony for 137.
		Many of the names of these Colonial leaders have been preserved in the names of the cities, towns, and other well-known locations throught the State of Connecticut.
	www.csginc.org /governors_of_connecticut.php (211 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.
	public.planetmirror.com /pub/pg/etext05/wit3610.txt (15847 words)

	Autobiography by John Stuart Mill : seven
		In July and August, 1838, I had found an interval in which to execute what was still undone of the original draft of the Third Book.
		The Book on Language and Classification, and the chapter on the Classification of Fallacies, were drafted in the autumn of the same year; the remainder of the work, in the summer and autumn of 1840.
		Colonial governors and other persons in authority, will have a considerable motive to stop short of such extremities in future.
	www.utilitarianism.net /millauto/seven.html (11753 words)

	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.
	www.dyscalculia.org /HUM501.html (12181 words)

	St. Phillip's Episcopal Church
		After suffering from one fire that was extinguished by a fl slave, who was given his freedom for this act, the church completely burned in 1835.
		The current St. Philip's was constructed from 1835 to 1838 by architect Joseph Hyde, while the steeple, designed by E.B. White, was added a decade later.
		Several colonial Governors and five Episcopal bishops are buried here, as well as John C. Calhoun (former Vice President of the United States), Rawlins Lowndes (President of South Carolina in 1778-79), and Dubose Heyward (author and playwright).
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/charleston/stp.htm (532 words)

	The Libraries at SUNY Potsdam: Index List
		The documents are reproduced on microcard and contain the full text of all known existing books, pamphlets, and broadsides printed in the United States (or British American colonies prior to Independence) from 1639 through 1800.
		The public papers from many of the governors of NY - see the catalog under the name of the governor.
		The Correspondence of the Colonial Governors of Rhode Island.
	www.potsdam.edu /library/home/Subjects/HistUSPrimSour.php (2957 words)

	Davidson College Library: Research Guide for History 262
		A collection of documents on the British Colonies; includes correspondence to and from colonial governors and covers topics such as piracy, slavery, business and economy, agriculture, boundary disputes, and more.
		This collection includes handwritten diaries from the colonial period through the beginning of the twentieth century.
		This collection provides the full text of letters, diaries, and excerpts of diaries from the colonial era to the mid twentieth century.
	www.davidson.edu /library/refer/his262.asp (2421 words)

	IslandMix - About Haiti...leh we talk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		It was the richest colony in the world and, as a result, was the greatest jewel in imperial France’s mercantile crown.
		Indeed, colonial education did not dispose the people of ex-slave colonies to see Haiti in the context of its historic, social and political significance as the first fl republic in the world whose independence was won 200 years ago by the defeat by a slave arm of what was then one of the world's superpowers.
		But it was the colonial governors who gave many former Haitian presidents exile in Jamaica, as they also did for General Santa Ana of Mexico and Simon Bolivar of Venezuela.
	www.islandmix.com /backchat/archive/index.php/t-46225.html (17244 words)

	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)

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