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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: List of Governors of South Carolina   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
William Sayle was the governor of South Carolina from 1670 to 1671.
Joseph Blake, the nephew of British Admiral Robert Blake, was Governor of South Carolina in 1694 (chosen by the council), and from 1696 to 1700.
Colonel James Moore was the British colonial governor of South Carolina between 1700 and 1703.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-Governors-of-South-Carolina   (3816 words)

  
 Pennsylvania Governors - LoveToKnow 1911
Executive Commissioners1686-1688John Simcock John Eckley John Blackwell Deputy-Governor.1688-1690' Governors of New Netherland and of the Dutch settlements on the Delaware.
2 The Swedish colonies on the Delaware conquered by the Dutch in 1655.
5 Governor Shunk resigned in July 1848 and was succeeded by W. Johnston, president of the state senate.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Pennsylvania_Governors   (1014 words)

  
 Prince Edward Island: Lieutenant Governors Gallery, Honourable Thomas Heath Haviland, Q.C.
Thomas Heath Haviland was the sixteenth Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island since the creation of the Colony in 1763.
Thomas Heath Haviland was born in Charlottetown on 13 November 1822 and educated at Brussels in the Kingdom of Belgium.
Pope and Howlan in May of 1873 to arrange final terms upon which Prince Edward Island was admitted as a Province of the Dominion.
www.gov.pe.ca /lg/gallery/16Haviland.php3   (336 words)

  
  ipedia.com: British Empire Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The sugar-producing colonies of the Caribbean, where slavery became the basis of the economy, were at first England's most important and lucrative colonies.
The American colonies providing tobacco, cotton, and rice in the south and naval materiel and furs in the north were less financially successful, but had large areas of good agricultural land and attracted far larger numbers of English immigrants.
The end of the old colonial and slave systems were accompanied by the adoption of free trade, culminating in the repeal of the Corn Laws and Navigation Acts in the 1840s.
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 List of Governors of Connecticut - Definition, explanation
1 Governors of the Colony of Connecticut, 1639-1662
2 Governors of the Colony of New Haven, 1639-1665
Governors of the Colony of New Haven, 1639-1665
www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/l/li/list_of_governors_of_connecticut.php   (164 words)

  
 Dictionary of Australian Biography We-Wy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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.
gutenberg.net.au /dictbiog/0-dict-biogWe-Wy.html   (20437 words)

  
 Spanish and Portuguese Colonial Possessions
Like Hong Kong, the colony was a Chinese window on the larger world and a good source of foreign currency.
Cuba, whose governors are at right, was one of the earliest Spanish colonies, and one of the last.
Governor Antonio de Otermin narrowly missed being killed and had to evacuate the territory.
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 Franklin & Marshall - Reconstituting Pennsylvania
Interestingly, the Constitution of 1873 put in place some of the features of state government that are at the heart of controversy today.
The 1968 Convention was preceded by six previous efforts to alter the 1873 convention--all unsuccessful for a variety of reasons.
Some of the state’s most important leaders, including then-Governor Raymond Shafer, former Governors Scranton and Leader, both US Senators, Joe Clark and Hugh Scott, and many leaders in both parties, all rallied in support of the 1968 convention’s call, and the final product was approved by almost 250,000 votes in referendum.
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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)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Samuel D. Felker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
He served as mayor of Rochester and in the New Hampshire state House of Representatives before being elected Governor in 1912.
April 16 is the 106th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (107th in leap years).
Governors of New Hampshire Robert Perkins Bass (1873–1960) was an American politician from New Hampshire who served as its governor from 1911 to 1913.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Samuel-D.-Felker   (401 words)

  
 GOVERNORS OF THE - Online Information article about GOVERNORS OF THE
Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New See also:
Colony of Nova Caesarea, or New Jersey (See also:
Burlington, 1765; 2nd ed., Trenton, 1877), still one of the best accounts of the colonial period, and particularly valuable on See also:
encyclopedia.jrank.org /GOA_GRA/GOVERNORS_OF_THE.html   (602 words)

  
 GOVERNORS - 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
The Governors of the second period — from Sir George Grey (second term) to Sir W. Jervois – were already well-experienced colonial administrators by the time they arrived in New Zealand, and most of them became Governors of other colonies after they left.
All the Governors of this period were picked men, and two of them — Robinson and Gordon – were regarded as being among the most competent of Britain's colonial administrators.
The Governors of this period, all extremely wealthy men, were members of the House of Lords with no previous experience of vice-regal office.
www.teara.govt.nz /1966/G/Governors/Governors/en   (500 words)

  
 Complete List of NYS Attorneys General   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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)

  
 Mitchell's West Indian Bibliography
Despatch from the Colonial Secretary to the Governor of Jamaica Respecting the Illegal Punishment of two female slaves belonging to Mr Jackson, the Custos of Port Royal in Jamaica.
Despatch from the Governor of British Guiana Transmitting a Report on the State of the Labouring Population of Demerara and Berbice.
Despatches Addressed to the Secretary of State by the Governors of Barbadoes, St Vincent, and St Lucia, and exact letter from the Bishop of Barbadoes, relating to the hurricanes in the West Indies.
www.books.ai /8th/Der-Dom.htm   (4489 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)

  
 New Netherland Project Bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Calendar of New York Colonial Manuscripts Indorsed Land Papers in the Office of the Secretary of state of New York, 1643-1803.
Education in New Netherland and the Middle Colonies: Papers of the 7th Rensselaerswyck Seminar of the New Netherland Project, eds.
Hageman, Howard G. "The Dutch Battle for Higher Education in the Middle Colonies." Education in New Netherland and the Middle Colonies: Papers of the 7th Rensselaerswyck Seminar of the New Netherland Project.
www.nnp.org /project/bibliography.html   (6115 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.ctgenealogy.com /governors_of_connecticut.php   (211 words)

  
 John Stuart Mill
Mill summed up his objective in his Autobiography (1873): "how to unite the greatest individual liberty of action, with a common ownership in the raw material of the globe, and an equal participation of all in the benefits of combined labour." (p.
Thus, after the rebellion in 1837 in Canada he defended Lord Durham's recommendations for internal responsible self-government in the colonies, free on the whole from interference from the colonial power, with a form of federal organization to defend the cultural interests of the French minority.
Since those elected would be better informed and wiser on specific issues that those who elected them, it would be wrong to bind the representatives to anything but a very general agreement with the beliefs and the aims of the electors.
plato.stanford.edu /entries/mill   (17600 words)

  
 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.
www.hopefarm.com /leedisk2.htm   (2370 words)

  
 Alexander Hamilton
Hamilton's natural inclinations were then, as always, toward the side of order and established government, but a visit to Boston in the spring of 1774, and a close examination of the questions in dispute, convinced him of the justice of the cause of the colonies.
In the trial of President Garfield's assassin he testified as an expert in behalf of the government.
He edited in 1875 the "American Psychological Journal," is the author of a work on" Clinical Electro-Therapeutics" (New York, 1873), and also of textbooks on "Nervous Diseases" (1878-'81), and "Medical Jurisprudence" (1887), and has published in professional journals articles on epilepsy, sensory epilepsy, ascending general paresis, tremors, and incoordination.
www.alexanderhamilton.org   (6104 words)

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