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  Early Colonial Grammar Schools
Governor Hopkins had made a separate bequest of £500, which should come into the hands of the same trustees for the same purpose, on the death of his wife.
This supposition is confirmed by the fact that, eleven years before (in 1660), the colonial Assembly had passed an act for the founding of `a college and free schoole,' to which object Berkeley, the council, and the members of the General Assembly all subscribed.
While Sir Francis Nicholson was governor of Virginia, he not only encouraged and furthered the establishment of William and Mary College, but gave certain lots and houses of his own for the endowment of another free school in that colony.
www.oldandsold.com /articles24/school-management-22.shtml   (6783 words)

  
 The Colonial Roots of American Taxation, 1607-1700 - Policy Review, No. 114   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Colonial legislatures did their best to retain specie, which was deemed important to facilitate commerce.
Lists were sent to the colonial treasurer, who issued warrants to town constables to collect specified sums.
To profit from the development of his colony, collect quitrents and fines, and recover land from settlers without heirs or who failed to meet the terms of their contracts, each proprietor required a system of territorial administration.
www.policyreview.org /AUG02/rabushka_print.html   (7652 words)

  
 Osgood, The Proprietary Province as a Form of Colonial Government. Part II
The governor brought the proprietor into the province, for every public act of the governor, if legally performed, was done in the name and by the authority of his superior.
December 30, 1637, Capt. George Evelyn was appointed by the governor as commander of Kent Island, with the criminal and police jurisdiction of a justice of the peace and civil jurisdiction in cases involving £10 or less.
In 1733 Governor Burrington had a controversy with two members of the council about the right to erect precincts and was able to show that, save in the case of one precinct formed in 1722, all had been erected without the co-operation of the legislature.
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 . Godliness _ being reports of a series of addresses delivered at James's Hall, Lo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The colonial literature of this period was influenced...
The Virginia colony was founded, as colonies usually...
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 North Carolina Governors
North Carolina's history as an organized governing system led by a governor may be viewed in five chronological stages: the Virginia colony, the southern plantation, the Lords Proprietors, the Royal colony, and the state of North Carolina.
A chronology of governors serving during each of these stages is listed at the bottom of the page.
Theactions of the Virginia governor outpaced his authority under the English Crown, and the Southern Plantation and its Commander were short-lived.
statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us /nc/stgovt/governor.htm   (958 words)

  
 Osgood, New England Colonial Finance in the 17th Century.
The administrative process which was necessitated by the imposition of the country rate, was the preparation of the list of taxables, with the estates which they possessed at their estimated value, the correction of these lists, the issue of warrants in accordance with them, and the collection of the tax.
Then the lists should be sent to the colony treasurer, and the treasurer should issue warrants to the constables of the several towns to collect the specified sums.
In Connecticut the town lists had first to be examined and equalized by the commissioners of all the towns in the respective counties, and then they were submitted to the general court.
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 COLONIAL AMERICA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Though religious toleration had been introduced into other colonies previously by individual proprietors or governors, this was the earliest legislative enactment in America asserting the principle of religious toleration.
Governor Berkeley, who had been Governor since 1642, had Charles II proclaimed as King and invited him to assume the administration of Virginia.
According to the Act all English possessions could allow only English or Colonial vessels entrance to their ports; certain articles, produced in the colonies, such as sugar and tobacco, were known as "enumerated" goods, and were to be shipped to England only.
www.usgennet.org /usa/topic/colonial/main/timeline.html   (4337 words)

  
 Norfleets of Colonial VA and NC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The basic doctrine of land tenure throughout the colonial period was that all land was held immediately by the King, to be dispensed by the royal officials of the colonial government in accordance with the wishes of the King.
The popular conception of colonial Virginia is that most of the land in the colony was owned by a few wealthy planters, of Cavalier descent, who maintained huge plantations worked by large numbers of indentured servants and/or slaves.
In colonial Virginia and North Carolina, all justices of the peace, vestrymen, officers in the militia and other appointed officials of the King were required to take a series of four oaths as a condition of appointment.
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 79.02.05: The African and the Pequot in Colonial America
In colonial times the Africans were the smallest and most limited cultural group (mostly servants), but they were able to retain a measure of autonomy in more subtle forms.
Unlike the Spanish and French Catholic colonies, where racial intermixing was acceptable, the English Protestant colonies were obstinately set against accepting the African and Pequot into their faith and their society.
List on the board words in the reading which relate to the topic and other unfamiliar words.
www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1979/2/79.02.05.x.html   (5312 words)

  
 North Carolina History and Fiction Digital Library - A history of colonial Bath
The career of the library during the remainder of the colonial period is not known despite the elaborate precautions for its preservation and use.
In 1699, a zealous friend of the Church of England, Henderson Walker, became governor, and in 1700, he induced the General Assembly to pass a vestry act establishing the Church of England as the colony's official church, for whose support taxes were to be levied on the inhabitants.
Governor Hyde immediately dispatched messengers to Virginia and South Carolina requesting aid and began to collect a force to be sent to the beleaguered and stunned settlers on the Pamlico and Neuse.
digital.lib.ecu.edu /historyfiction/document/paa/entire.html   (17043 words)

  
 The Colonial Virginia Register   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
From 1652 to 1660 the Governors were elected by the House of Burgesses, though there is some reason to believe that their choice may have been influenced by the wishes of the Parliamentary authorities, or of Cromwell.
The Councillors were the Governor's advisers in executive matters, and patents, etc., are stated to be issued with their "advice and consent." They constituted the General Court -the supreme court of the Colony and also had legislative functions as members of the upper house of the Assembly, corresponding somewhat to our senate.
The colonial almanacs (which were always published late in the year before that whose date they bear-as is the case now) contain lists which have in the main been found to be very accurate, of the members of the House in existence at the time when the almanac was printed.
www.ls.net /~newriver/va/vareg1.htm   (7372 words)

  
 Historical Publications: Colonial Records of North Carolina
The accomplishments of both the publication and copying components of the Colonial Records Project have been recognized nationally in various ways: scholarly reviews, financial support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and numerous private sources, and the grant of the coveted Award of Merit by the American Association for State and Local History.
Although the North Carolina Colonial Records Project is an agency of state government, from the beginning the project has also enjoyed substantial and crucial private support.
Volumes II-VI focus on records of the various higher courts in the colony to 1730, while volumes VII-IX concern the Council, the body advising proprietary and royal governors on the exercise of their extensive powers.
www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us /sections/hp/colonial   (634 words)

  
 America as a Religious Refuge: the 17th Century - PART 2 (Religion and the Founding of the American Republic, Library ...
During the colonial period, this board was used at Touro Synagogue to prepare the dough for Matzoh (unleavened bread) used in the Passover season.
After the Glorious Revolution of 1689 in England, the Church of England was legally established in the colony and English penal laws, which deprived Catholics of the right to vote, hold office, or worship publicly, were enforced.
When a popular assembly, the House of Burgesses, was established in 1619, it enacted religious laws that "were a match for anything to be found in the Puritan societies." Unlike the colonies to the north, where the Church of England was regarded with suspicion throughout the colonial period, Virginia was a bastion of Anglicanism.
www.loc.gov /exhibits/religion/rel01-2.html   (2795 words)

  
 Guide and Index to Lists of Rulers
One motivation is that history is often not taught anymore in terms of dynasties and rulers, since this is thought (by an academic elite comfortably supported by the taxpayers) to be too elitist and too removed from the life of the people.
The arrangement of these lists thus follows Bryce's principle of universalist ideology, centering on Rome but extending to similar to ideas outside of the Roman world.
The systematic treatment is as follows in the list below, but the list in the box at right simply gives the actual internet files in which basic historical material, with lists and genealogies, is contained.
www.friesian.com /histindx.htm   (3012 words)

  
 New Jersey Colonial Sites
Colonial house located at the foot of the Palisades near where the British climbed up to attack Fort Lee in 1776.
Colonial house, part of Thomas Whitlock homestead, 1663-1703.
1739 Dutch colonial house confiscated during American Revolution from Tory John Zabriskie and later given to Baron von Steuben.
pirate.shu.edu /~luriemax/new_jersey_colonial_sites.htm   (121 words)

  
 Robert Frew - Alphabetical List of All Books
The world map, titled “Nova Orbis Tabula”, is after Visscher and conforms with the second state in having illustrations of cherubs in the cusps of the globes and an additional outer border.
Lares and Penates: or Cilicia and its Governors; being a short historical account of that province from the earliest times to the present day: together with a description of some household gods of the ancient Cilicians, broken up by them on their conversion to Christianity, first discovered and brought to this country by the author.
Fancillon and A. Macleay (1767-1848), colonial secretary for New South Wales.
www.robertfrew.com /books/alphalist_books.htm   (12347 words)

  
 DUTCH colonial REMAINS: (1600-1800)
What is even more interesting is that the names of some of the colonies of the town are still named after old settlements of the respective companies.
(1650) (built in 1650 as the official residence of Dutch Governors and their officers, the edifice is a fine example of Dutch architecture.
Unawatuna (near Galle): Country house of a Dutch governor (de Jong ?): "Nooit Gedacht" (1735) in the vicinity there were also two watchtowers, but sadly they have crumbled to rubble in recent years.
www.colonialvoyage.com /remainsD.html   (2287 words)

  
 Southeast Asia: the Mainland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In fact, there is a direct and irreconcilable conflict with the next two dynasties listed below, and I can only suppose that one or the other list is imaginary, or that both lists reflect a real circumstance - perhaps a partition or a balkanization of the region.
The following lists detail monarchs controlling mainly the central regions of what is now the modern state.
Modern analysis suggests that the list begins at the beginning of the 3rd century BCE; the traditional chronicles say that Thiha Radza died "the same year that Gautama Buddha entered Nirvana" i.e.
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 Spanish and Portuguse Colonial Possessions
Like Hong Kong, the colony was a Chinese window on the larger world and a good source of foreign currency.
The list of Governors of Macao is from a page at the World Statesmen site.
Cuba, whose governors are at right, was one of the earliest Spanish colonies, and one of the last.
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In Colony of North Carolina Volume 1 and Volume 2 Margaret M. Hofmann has abstracted land patents for more than 15,000 tracts of land granted to settlers in NC by the Crown in the 30 - some years NC was a Crown Colony.
The three census works listed above are in original order with all information included as it appears in the enumerations, indexed (1850 schedules for the county and those for population, slave, and agriculture are indexed).
Accompanying are tax lists for the county showing township of taxable property, number of polls, number of slaves, and evaluation in 1830.
www.margaretmhofmann.com   (9471 words)

  
 African Timelines Part III: African Slave Trade & European Imperialism
Dutch establish colony at Cape of Good Hope, South Africa; and colonizing Boers ("farmers"), or Afrikaners, begin settling large farms at the expense of San and Khoikhoi, non-Bantu speakers of the region.
In 1822, the society established on the west coast of Africa a colony that in 1847 became the independent nation of Liberia.
Cuba, in 1839 a Spanish colony, one of the world’s largest producers of sugar, and the last major slave society in the West Indies;
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 Checklist of Indexes at the Maryland State Archives
See Passenger and Immigration Lists Index for citations to printed works on immigration (most not available at the Archives).
See cards at beginning of index for a list of records included.
Indexes plats recorded among the records of the county courts, Chancery Court, and Land Office.
www.mdarchives.state.md.us /msa/refserv/html/checklst.html   (963 words)

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