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	PHMC: Governors of Pennsylvania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		According to historians, the governor was a direct descendant of John Howland who arrived in Massachusetts on the Mayflower in 1620 and a tenth generation descendant of Ralph Earle who emigrated from his native Devon, England, to Rhode Island in 1634.
		Governor Earle’s substantial accomplishments near the end of his term were eclipsed by political charges against other Democratic leaders who were accused of macing, graft, and corruption.
		Following the war, Earle became the first governor to be divorced and in 1945, he was married to Jacqueline Marthe Germine Sacre of Belgium with whom he had a daughter and a son.
	www.phmc.state.pa.us /bah/dam/governors/earle.asp?secid=31 (1192 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Governors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Governors Island GOVERNORS ISLAND [Governors Island] 173 acres (70 hectares), in Upper New York Bay, S of Manhattan island, SE N.Y. Bought from the Native Americans by the Dutch in 1637, it was the site of an early New Netherlands settlement.
		He came to the colony as lieutenant governor in 1758, and in the absence of the governorsâ”the earl of Loudon (1756-63) and Jeffery Amherst (1763-68)â”he was the chief administrative officer.
		Norwalk, Conn. A lawyer, Fitch was an assistant in the colony (1734-35, 1740-50).
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Governors (711 words)

	Bouvier's Law Dictionary, 1856 Edition - Letter N
		The governor, at the time of his election, must have been an inhabitant of this state for the seven years next preceding, be of the age of thirty years, and have an estate of the value of five hundred pounds, one-half of which must consist of a freehold in bis own right, within the state.
		The governor, or person administering the government, the chancellor, and the six judges of the court of errors and appeals, or a major part of them, of whom the governor or person administering the government shall be one, may remit fines and forfeitures, and grant pardons after conviction, in all cages except impeachment.
		If during a vacancy of the office of governor, the lieutenant governor shall be impeached, displaced, resign, die, or become incapable of performing the duties of his office, or be absent from the state, the president of the senate shall act as governor, until the vacancy be filled, or the disability shall cease.
	www.constitution.org /bouv/bouvier_n.htm (13063 words)

	New Georgia Encyclopedia: George Troup (1780-1856)
		His two terms as Georgia's thirtieth governor (1823-27) were marked by his successful efforts to ensure the removal of the Creek Indians from the state.
		After his second term as governor Troup returned to the Senate in 1829, this time as a Jacksonian, where he served as the chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs.
		Troup died at one of his Montgomery County plantations on April 26, 1856, at the age of seventy-six; he is interred at Rosemont Plantation in that county.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2822 (936 words)

	PHMC: Governors of Pennylvania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The governor's mother, Elizabeth Freame, was the daughter of an English army private who stayed here after the war between Great Britain and France.
		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.
		In 1856, he was nominated by the North American Party to run for vice president on a ticket with John Fremont, but decided to withdraw.
	www.phmc.state.pa.us /bah/dam/governors/johnston.asp?secid=31 (869 words)

	Governors and Ancillary Matters
		The position of Governor in the Constitution is not a prominent one, and although, theoretically, all legislation has to be approved and all Executive acts concurred in by him, in practice he follows the advice of his responsible ministers.
		In the late 1880s the subject of the power of appointment of governors of the Australian colonies was discussed widely and suggestions were made that the colonies with representative legislatures should claim the right of appointing their own governors in the future.
		"The Governor and the New Council" is in the Observer,
	www.slsa.sa.gov.au /manning/sa/governor/governor.htm (3419 words)

	1856 - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		1853 1854 1855 - 1856 - 1857 1858 1859
		1856 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar).
		You can find it there under the keyword 1856 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1856)The list of previous authors is available here: version history (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1856andaction=history).
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/1856 (746 words)

	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 (6394 words)

	The Constitutional Centre of Western Australia - Kennedy
		His first appointment in the Colonial Service was the office of Governor of the Gambia Settlements, which had previously been held by Captain Fitzgerald, the former Governor of WA.
		In fact, in August 1856, the colony's citizens held a public meeting in Perth to protest against his Excellency's arbitrary methods.
		Governor Kennedy relinquished the reins of office in 1862 and claimed much of the colony's success on his legislative efforts.
	www.ccentre.wa.gov.au /index.cfm?event=governorsArthurkennedy (446 words)

	Lt. Governor Bill Bolling - The Office of the Lieutenant Governor of Virginia
		The President acted as Lieutenant Governor in the case of the death, inability, or necessary absence of the Governor from the government.
		The Lieutenant Governor had to be 30 years of age, a native citizen of the United States and a resident of Virginia for five years prior to his election.
		The Constitutional Convention of 1902 changed state residency for the Lieutenant Governor back from three to five years, and although no changes were made in the provisions of the office of Lieutenant Governor during the reorganization amendments of 1928, the adoption of the short ballot increased the visibility of the office.
	www.ltgov.virginia.gov /educational/aboutOffice.cfm (1381 words)

	1856 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		1856 (MDCCCLVI) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar).
		June 9 - 500 Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa and head west for Salt Lake City, Utah carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts.
		July 17 - The Great Train Wreck of 1856 was the worst railroad calamity in the world to date, occurring near Philadelphia, PA, USA.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1856 (1130 words)

	Royal Australian Navy Gun Plot - Colonial Navies Of Early Australia
		In 1884, Britain, recognising Australia’s economic potential and its strategic importance in the Pacific, raised the status of the Australian Squadron to a Rear Admiral’s command and appointed Rear-Admiral George Lyon as the Flag Officer commanding the Squadron.
		Shortly after her arrival in the colony Paluma was lent to the Royal Navy for use as a survey ship along the Australian east coast.
		The provisions of the Colonial Naval Defence Act of 1865 were not applicable to Western Australia until after that colony achieved the status of a self-governing colony, and until that time she could not legally operate warships of her own.
	www.gunplot.net /colonialnavy/colonialnavy1.html (3388 words)

	Towns-Lee
		Though encouraged by sympathetic governors, these men of God were often faced with physical and economic hardships, and, worst of all, the religious apathy of a large segment of the people among whom they worked.
		The building was described by Governor Dobbs as the largest church in the province, and undoubtedly it was one of the fine churches of colonial America.
		By far the most distinguished residents were governors Dobbs and Tryon, though strictly speaking their residence, Russellboro, was not within the limits of the town but adjoined it to the north.
	www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us /sections/hp/colonial/Nchr/Subjects/lee.htm (6097 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)

	The Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut - 1731 Connecticut/New York Boundary History
		Governor Van Twiller extinguished the Indian title, in 1633, to "an extensive tract of land called the Connittelsock, lying on the west bank of the river and sixty miles from its mouth." The Dutch clashed with the English during Van Twiller's time and later, as to jurisdiction of the territory.
		The later Governors of New Netherland persisted in endeavors to assert the Dutch right to the territory, but in 1650 Governor Stuyvesant entered into a provisional treaty with the Connecticut authorities whereby it was agreed that the
		Commissioners were appointed by both States and the survey began in January, 1856, at the "wading-stone" and was carried without difficulty to the Ridgefield angle.
	www.colonialwarsct.org /1731.htm (859 words)

	Pacific Islands, Colonial Australia and New Zealand
		The governors of the colony had been naval officers, the last of whom was William Bligh of mutiny on the Bounty fame.
		Macquarie urged the colony's elite to conduct themselves with propriety and rectitude and urged the lower elements to remain sober.
		And in 1829 the Swan River colony was begun on the continent's southwest shore, where the city of Perth would rise.
	www.fsmitha.com /h3/h43-pa.html (8489 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : 1856 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The whole island was broken up into several smaller islands by the storm.
		November 4 - U.S. presidential election, 1856: Democrat James Buchanan defeats former President Millard Fillmore, representing a coalition of "Know-Nothings" and Whigs, and John C. Frémont of the fledgling Republican Party to become the 15th President of the United States.
		November 17 - American Old West: On the Sonoita River in present-day southern Arizona, the United States Army establishes Fort Buchanan in order to help control new land acquired in the Gadsden Purchase.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /1856 (791 words)

	Connecticut's "Black Governors"
		It is thought that slaves, who accompanied their owners to Hartford for the yearly election of the colony's governor, chose a person to become a leader of their community as well.
		A fl governor could be called on to perform important functions within his community, and the position commanded respect from both fl and white residents.
		The last fl governor in Connecticut is considered to be Wilson Weston, who served as governor in the town of Seymour in 1856.
	www.cslib.org /gov/blackgov.htm (836 words)

	Coinage -- Pre-Colonial India Coinage
		The dilution of central authority prompted Provincial Governors of the Mughals, to assume independence (e.g., the states of Avadh and Hyderabad).
		With the decline of the Mughal Empire, the British Governor General, the Marquis of Hastings, persuaded Ghaziuddin Haidar, the Nawab-Wazir of Awadh, to cast off Mughal suzerainty and declare himself independent.
		The defeat of the Nawab of Awadh at the Battle of Buxar (1764), precipitated the decline of the Kingdom.
	www.rbi.org.in /currency/museum/c-colo.html (1361 words)

	Colonial Capitals of the Dominion of Virginia
		It is the desire of the Colonial Dames of America to erect a memorial building, as a protection for the historic ruins.
		Governor Nott, who is buried in Bruton churchyard, procured through the Assembly an act for building the palace and a appropriation of 3,000 for the same.
		Washington was distinguished among the belles, who graced the vice-regal courts of the colonial governors Gooch and Dinwiddie, for her beauty and intellect.
	www.newrivernotes.com /va/colcap.htm (18145 words)

	EDUCATIONAL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		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.
		In 1856, he was elected fellow of Trinity, and in 1857.
		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.
	www.colonialcdbooks.com /educational.htm (2779 words)

	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.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /GOA_GRA/GOVERNORS_OF_NORTH.html (1088 words)

	Sir George William Des Voeux, 1886-1887: Government House
		He left without a degree in 1856 and moved to Canada where he finished his B.A. at the University of Toronto and became a lawyer.
		He also won points politically when he sided with the colony in support of the 1887 bait bill that controlled the sale of bait to French fishers.
		The governor enjoyed the island and was reluctant to leave except that the pay was better in Asia.
	www.heritage.nf.ca /govhouse/governors/g54.html (315 words)

	PlYMOUTH MA - ITS HISTORY AND PEOPLE
		The pilgrims founded Plymouth on Dec. 21, 1620, establishing a settlement that became the seat of Plymouth Colony in 1633 and a part of Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1691.
		His History of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647, first printed in full in 1856, is a minor classic, reflecting the unusual qualities of the man and the values of the small group of English separatists who became known as Pilgrims.
		He strove to sustain the religious ideals of the founders and to keep the colony's settlements compact and separate from the larger neighboring colonies.
	pilgrims.net /plymouth/history (1465 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)

	African Forum
		The equivalence of individuals within groups derived concretely from the manipulation of people in the mechanics of colonial administration, just as museums of African art derived from the possibilities of thievery in discrete periods of conquest, and animal "families" in natural history museums were assembled from kills made within particular safaris.
		Colonial personnel in Africa prided themselves on interior knowledge, but they took their general orders from metropolitan officials living far away, whether in Mafeking and Cape Town, or the Foreign Office in London and the colonial ministry in Paris.
		Such examples again show that the role of images in the colonial project does not emerge from the images themselves, but rather lies in their appropriation into structures of distribution and consumption.
	www.h-net.org /~africa/africaforum/Landau.html (6462 words)

	SternBusiness Spring/Summer 2003
		In a sample of 11 major capital-importing economies, if one takes an average of the three colonial countries Australia, Canada, and Egypt the anticipated yield was 5.3 percent, compared with 4.7 percent for the three South American countries in the group.
		In addition to the cast-iron commitment of colonial governors and administrators, a variety of explicit legal guarantees offered by the Colonial Loans Act (1899) and the Colonial Stock Act (1900) gave colonial bonds the same trustee status as the benchmark British government perpetual bond, the consol.
		British colony such as India, or in a colony in all but name like Egypt, was more secure than money invested in an independent country such as Argentina.
	www.stern.nyu.edu /Sternbusiness/spring_summer_2003/anglobalization.html (3017 words)

	William Penn
		As such he joined in a declaration that a clause in his father's instructions suspending the operation of laws passed by the lieutenant-governor until the proprietor's pleasure be known was illegal and void.
		To manage the estate he came to the colony in 1732 with power of attorney from John and Richard, and on his arrival took a seat in the council.
		This outbreak had barely subsided before the young governor was embroiled with the assembly on an offshoot of the old quarrel as to the taxation of proprietary lands.
	www.williampenn.org (5689 words)

	American Governors of Louisiana
		The old Charity Hospital building on Canal Street is used as the State House, while 611 Royal is used as the official residence of the governor after the state government returns from Donaldsonville.
		Roman retakes the governor’s office stressing education and civic improvements.
		W.C.C. Claiborne is elected the state's first governor as Creole forces are divided between Villere and Jean d’Estrehan.
	www.enlou.com /people/bios-state_governors_m-z.htm (2159 words)

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