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	Josiah Burchett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Burchett eventually fell out of favour with Pepys, but gained the respect and favour of Lord Admiral Edward Russell, and eventually was appointed Secretary of the Admiralty.
		Burchett served on Russell's flagship, the 100-gun HMS Britannia, at the battle of Barfleur in 1692 during the War of the Grand Alliance.
		Burchett was elected as a member of the English Parliament in 1705 as a Whig and member of the 'Court Group' representing the borough of Sandwich, England.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Josiah_Burchett (409 words)

	Washington County, OH Cemetery Index BUCHERT - BURNETT
		BURCHETT, Agusta J, 1875-19__, Warren Chapel, Warren Twp.
		BURCHETT, Isaac A, 1872-1941, Warren Chapel, Warren Twp.
		BURCHETT, William T.(homas), 1839-1932, Watertown, Watertown Twp, Civil, 36 OVI.
	www.wchs-ohio.org /cem_buchertburnett.htm (955 words)

	Burchett Family Genealogy Forum (Page 3)
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	genforum.genealogy.com /burchett/page3.html#40 (3123 words)

	Mitchell's West Indian Bibliography
		BURCHETT, Josiah - Memoirs of Transactions at Sea during the War with
		[BURCHETT, Josiah] - Mr Burchett's Justification of his Naval Memoirs in Answer to the reflections of Col Lillingston on that part which relates to Cape Francois and Port de Paix.
		BURCHETT, Josiah - [British naval administrator and author (ca 1666-1746); secretary to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, 1695-1742.
	www.books.ai /8th/Bur-Bz.htm (3923 words)

	Considerations of the Bill for the Better Government of the Navy. : [CORBETT, (Thomas)]
		The former laid down that an Officer court-martialled for "conduct unbecoming" should be dismissed the service, the latter calling for the court-martial of any half-pay officer refusing a call to service.
		Corbett was made Secretary of the Admiralty on the retirement of Josiah Burchett in 1742.
		Previously he had served as Byng's secretary during the Expedition to Sicily, of which he wrote an account, and as Chief Clerk and latterly Second Secretary at the Admiralty.
	www.maggs.com /title/MI24200.asp (228 words)

	Secretaries 1660-1870 \| British History Online
		From Burchett's period of office (1694-1742) until the early nineteenth century it was the general rule for the Secretaries to be members of the House of Commons but to enjoy nevertheless a secure tenure which was largely unaffected by political changes.
		15) Burchett enjoyed, as Secretary, an additional allowance of £200 from the contingent fund while Prince George was Lord High Admiral.
		Subsequently Burchett received the arrears of this allowance from the death of Prince George in 1708 until the end of the war in 1713 (PC 2/86 pp.
	www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=16654. (1334 words)

	The Mutineers
		The times are soe dull here yet that I can find you nothing but what you’d have from every hand: therefore I only acquaint you, that I am the eldest officer (under the flagg) in the squadron, and request you to remember our old friendship as occasion offers.
		He devoted it with something of a Resolution and Presence of Mind, to a modest and becoming submission and expressed himself in such words as were proper to Deter others of his countrymen from Cowardice for the future.
		His final resting place is just before the altar of Charles’ Church Plymouth, the bombed out shell of which remains as a war memorial.
	bravebenbow.tripod.com /id16.html (4447 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
		But the disaster — one of the worst in 18th century naval annals — was not forgotten by the politicians.
		Hoping to mend his fortunes in the colonies he took refuge in South Carolina, whence he returned within two years to complete his Journal on the basis of memory, a pocket diary, and various letters and documents supplied him by the secretary of the Admiralty, Josiah Burchett.
		Supplementary letters and papers, which were not available to Admiral Walker when he was writing his Journal, and which fill in the gaps in his account, are to be found in PRO, S.P. 42/68; 44/110, 44/111 (secretaries’ letter books).
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=35278 (2925 words)

	artnet.com: Resource Library: Vandergucht: (2) Gerard Vandergucht (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		He studied with his father and Louis Chéron and became a prolific book illustrator.
		Among his numerous engravings are his frontispiece for Josiah Burchett’s Complete History of the Most Remarkable Transactions at Sea (1720), based on a rare book design by James Thornhill, and his illustrations for Samuel Croxall’s Select Collection of Novels (2/1729) based on works by Joseph Highmore and John Vanderbank.
		He contributed to some of the more ambitious and unusual illustrated books, such as Lewis Theobald’s edition (2/1740) of Shakespeare, in which Gravelot’s light Rococo designs belie the hearty Englishness of many of Shakespeare’s characters.
	www.artnet.com /library/08/0878/T087823.asp (299 words)

	Mongolian Stomper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		- Josiah Burchett - British Secretary of the Admiralty (1694 - 1742)
		- Wilfred Burchett - Australian war journalist, KGB agent, and first Westerner to cover the aftermath of the dropping of the atom bomb on Hiroshima (1911-1983)
		Daejeon Metropolitan City is a Special cities of Korea in the centre of South Korea, and the capital of South Chungcheong Province.
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	Amazon.ca: A Complete History of the Most Remarkable Transactions at Sea: Books: Josiah Burchett,John B. Hattendorf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Amazon.ca: A Complete History of the Most Remarkable Transactions at Sea: Books: Josiah Burchett,John B. Hattendorf
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		by Josiah Burchett (Author), John B. Hattendorf (Author)
	amazon.ca /Complete-History-Most-Remarkable-Transactions/dp/0820114898 (102 words)

	Etext » books
		In that island a great and vigorous people had sprung into being--a people great in their ambitions, commerce and dominion; vigorous in holding what they had won against the assaults, meditated or actual, of those who envied their greatness and coveted their possessions.
		Of this island people, as of their world-wide interests, the "chiefest defence" was a "good fleet at sea." [Footnote: This famous phrase is used, perhaps for the first time, by Josiah Burchett, sometime Secretary to the Admiralty, in his _Observations on the Navy_, 1700.]
		Decade after decade, as that struggle waxed and waned but went remorselessly on, the Navy grew in ships, the ships in tonnage and weight of metal, and with their growth the demand for men, imperative as the very existence of the nation, mounted ever higher and higher.
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		252 Prosser 260 265 Burchett Josiah Head 54 Ml/23 IA VA IN Fruit Farmer
		252 Prosser 260 265 Burchett Marietta wife 50 Ml/23 IA IL IN None
		252 Prosser 260 265 Burchett James W son 21 s MT IA IA None
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