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		List of Chancellors of the University of Cambridge
		List of Chancellors of the University of Mississippi
	www.starrepublic.org /encyclopedia/wikipedia/l/li/listoflists.html (2044 words)

	Dictionary of Australian Biography Sa-Sp
		Though not in parliament he was appointed colonial secretary and minister for railways in the Mitchell government in May 1919, a fortnight later was elected a member of the legislative assembly, and exchanged the portfolio of colonial secretary for those of mines, industries and forests.
		Governor Brisbane opposed his suggestion that "government reserves" should be considered church and school lands, and with regard to land generally, comparatively little of it had even been surveyed.
		When the colony was passing through a troublesome time in 1892 the suggestion was made that he should come back to the legislative assembly and lead a coalition government, but the state of his health would not permit him to do this.
	gutenberg.net.au /dictbiog/0-dict-biogSa-Sp.html (21493 words)

	The Colonial Roots of American Taxation, 1607-1700 - Policy Review, No. 114 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		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.
		Almost from the beginning, in all the proprietary colonies except New York, proprietors and their executive officials were dependent on annual appropriations of their legislatures, which set specific rates of duties and direct taxes.
	www.policyreview.org /AUG02/rabushka_print.html (7652 words)

	Encyclopedia: 1784 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar.
		See also: 1783 in literature, other events of 1784, 1785 in literature, list of years in literature.
		See also: 1783 in music, other events of 1784, 1785 in music, list of years in music.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1784 (3086 words)

	List of Blekinge Governors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		This is a list of Governors for Blekinge County in Sweden from 1683 to present.
		Blekinge separated from Kalmar County in 1683 se List of Kalmar Governors before that date.
		Colonial governors from the fifteenth century to the present;: A comprehensive list,
	www.freeglossary.com /List_of_Blekinge_Governors (373 words)

	Norfleets of Colonial VA and NC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		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.
	norfleet01.tripod.com /norfleet2.htm (6098 words)

	Recent Events, Governors Island Preservation and Education Corporation
		The setting of historic Governors Island provides a perfect backdrop for William's lecture on the role of rum in the American Revolution and Prohibition, when Governors Island as Coast Guard Headquarters was in the vanguard of the attempt to stop the rum-runners from restocking the speakeasies of New York.
		Until recently, Governors Island, the last of three small islands that lie south of Manhattan, was the largest Coast Guard installation in the world, housing some 5,000 service personnel and their families.
		Her photographic exhibition, along with excerpts from oral histories of Governors Island residents, is designed to capture the memories and the history of a community and culture that once flourished on the island, now mostly abandoned.
	www.govisland.com /Visit_the_Island/recent.asp (2720 words)

	United States
		The United States traces its national origin to the declaration by thirteen British colonies in 1776 that they were free and independent states.
		This tripartite system is duplicated, with variations, (such as elected governors instead of a president) at the state level.
		At the time of the United States Declaration of Independence, the thirteen colonies transformed themselves into states, initially connected in a loose confederation, and later united as a unified country (cf.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/u/un/united_states.html (2553 words)

	Benjamin Franklin
		He and former colonial governor Thomas Pownall proposed alternative ways to create revenue in the colonies, but their proposals were ignored.
		The legislative assembly of each colony was to choose, once in three years, representatives to attend a Federal grand council, which was to meet every year at Philadelphia, as the City most convenient of access from north and south alike.
		The governor contended that these should be exempt from taxation; the assembly insisted rightly that these estates should bear their one share of the public burdens.
	www.benjaminfranklin.org (8070 words)

	American Revolution
		They are listed under four headings: (1) general primary sources or documentary collections on the colonial period; (2) regional information (mostly for the southern colonies), including runs of colonial newspapers held on microfilm; (3) primary sources about the American Revolution; and (4) selected papers and writings of the Founders.
		There are additional materials (not listed) concerning the early American republic and the early history of the thirteen states (plus the territories and neighboring borderlands).
		The local archive of Spanish colonial documents kept at St. Augustine, capital of East Florida, by the governors between 1784 and 1821.
	web.uflib.ufl.edu /spec/pkyonge/colsouth.html (3155 words)

	World Almanac for Kids
		The chief executive of Michigan is a governor, who is popularly elected to a term of four years and (under a law approved by voters in 1992) may serve a maximum of two terms.
		The same regulations apply to the lieutenant governor, who succeeds the governor should the latter resign, die, or be removed from office.
		During the War of 1812, the territorial governor, William Hull (1753–1825), led an invasion of Canada, but, in the face of British opposition and their control of the lakes, he retreated and surrendered Detroit to the enemy without firing a shot.
	www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/states/michigan.html (4500 words)

	Subject Bibliographies by Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Lists and indexes books and articles issued by more than 400 local and national societies of England, Wales, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands.
		Established by an Act of Parliament in 1838 in order to provide proper accommodation for the public records of Great Britain and to facilitate their free use, the Public Record Office is the official repository of original archival documents of the courts and of government departments spanning almost a thousand years.
		This list indicates which original material in the collection is available on microfilm.
	www.library.yale.edu /rsc/history/british/Pagesbrit/primmss.html (1374 words)

	National Park Service: A Multitude of Amendments, Alterations and Additions
		On 4 July, the Congress approved the Declaration and it was formally adopted by unanimous vote of all the colonies represented.
		In June 1816, Binns began a list of subscriptions for his publication of "a splendid and correct copy of the Declaration of Independence, with fac-similes of all the signatures, the whole to be encircled with the arms of the thirteen States and of the United States."(27)
		The remaining copies were sent to the governors and legislatures of the states and territories, and various universities and colleges in the United States (see Appendix E for a list of extant Stone facsimiles).
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/dube/inde2.htm (2249 words)

	About the Virginia Colonial Records Project
		The Virginia Colonial Records Project was established in the 1950s by the Virginia Historical Society, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, the University of Virginia Library, and Library of Virginia to reconstitute the archive of Virginia's colonial history--a documentary record decimated by war and fire during the Old Dominion's first three centuries.
		Charles McLean Andrews, ed., "List of Reports and Representations of the Plantation Councils, 1660-1674, the Lords of Trade, 1675-1696, and the Board of Trade, 1696-1782, in the Public Record Office," Annual Report of the American Historical Association for the Year 1913, vol.
		Charles McLean Andrews, ed., "List of the Journals and Acts of the Councils and Assemblies of the Thirteen Original Colonies, and the Floridas, in America, Preserved in the Public Record Office," Annual Report of the American Historical Association for the Year 1908, vol.
	www.lva.lib.va.us /whatwehave/gov/vcrpabout.htm (930 words)

	Louisiana History
		The French Colonial Period became with the discovery of the Mississippi River by LaSalle and ended with the secret treaty of Fontainebleau in 1762 when France ceded its Territory West of the Mississippi River and the Isle of Orleans to Spain.
		In 1800, Spain officially returned the Louisiana territory West of the Mississippi to France by the secret Treaty of San Ildefonso to avoid the continued deficits the colony caused and the growing possibility that Spain might have to fight the restless Americans to retain control of the lands.
		Claiborne is appointed governor of the Territory of Orleans
	www.thecajuns.com /lahist.htm (637 words)

	Tyler, Education in Colonial Virginia. V: Influence of William and Mary College
		The Supreme Court, as organized in 1778, consisted till 1788, of the three judges of the High Court of Chancery, the three judges of the General Court, and the three judges of the Admiralty Court.
		In the above list the first four were judges of the High Court of Chancery.
		The list above does not include the judges of the Special Court of Appeals appointed at a later day.
	www.dinsdoc.com /tyler-5.htm (579 words)

	FRANCIA
		The only drawbacks are that (1) Thompsett's lists are, indeed, genealogical, which means it is sometimes hard to find unrelated rulers in a succession, and (2) the entries are very summary, without any explanation of may be happening as, for instance, domains are divided among multiple heirs.
		However, both Tompsett and WW-Person list Stephen Count of Champagne, Meaux, and Troyes (Tompsett twice, as son of both Herbert the Elder and Herbert, Count of Meaux, identified as "Herbert the Younger").
		While French colonialism may have had less of the racism and racial separateness that now seem characteristic of British practice, it nevertheless was rather more intent on imposing French "civilization" and less tolerant of taking "no" for an answer -- while the British condescended to allow quaint native customs and institutions to survive, within limits.
	www.friesian.org /francia.htm (14328 words)

	Middle East Open Encyclopedia: 1783 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		This is an extract from The Middle East Open Encyclopedia, made possible through the Wikimedia Foundation.
		1780 1781 1782 - 1783 - 1784 1785 1786
		Iraq Museum International always displays the most recent published revision of the source article, 1783; all previous versions may be viewed here.
	www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref/index.php?title=1783 (691 words)

	Alexander Hamilton
		He extended his reputation for statesmanlike ability and brilliant eloquence, but effected nothing, and withdrew to the practice of his profession in 1783, more than ever convinced that the worthless fabric of the confederation must be swept away, and something better and stronger put in its place.
		This great object was never absent from his mind, and as he rapidly rose at the bar he watched with a keen eye the course of public affairs, and awaited an opening.
		A list of the books written by or relating to Hamilton has been published under the title of "Bibliotheca Hamiltonia" by Paul L. Ford (New York, 1886).
	www.alexanderhamilton.org (6104 words)

	Sources for the American Revolution at the South Carolina Department of Archives and History
		The 1783 officers' returns of those who had "gone over to the enemy" in Box 4 of the Miscellaneous Papers are indexed in a card file in the Reference Room.
		The lists of names in four acts relating to confiscation or amercement of estates were omitted in the printing of those acts in volume 4 of Thomas Cooper and David J. McCord, eds., The Statutes at Large of South Carolina.
		The manuscript of this roll was deposited with the Secretary of State by agreement between the South Carolina Society of Cincinnati and the General Assembly in exchange for assistance with a limited edition publication in 1886.
	www.state.sc.us /scdah/exhibits/revolution/revsources.htm (8805 words)

	CD-ROM Collection List
		for a list of common surnames which may be excluded from free searches.
		Keep in mind that most of the disks listed below containing census information DO NOT contain the actual census records; they have only lists of the names of the "Heads Of Household" with a page number where additional information about that individual's household members may be found in the actual census records.
		This index is unique in that it not only lists the "Head of Household", but every member of the household as well for every county in the state.
	www.gwest.org /cd-rom.htm (9958 words)

	A School History of the United States, by John Bach McMaster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		%45. The Year 1643.%—The year 1643 is thus an important one in colonial history. It was in that year that the New Haven colony was founded; that the league of The United Colonies of New England was formed; and that Roger Williams obtained the first charter of Rhode Island.
		was restored to the throne of England, and a new era opens in colonial history. In 1661 the little colony of Connecticut promptly acknowledged the restoration of Charles II.
		But his work was far from ended. The valley he had explored, the territory he had added to France, must be occupied, and to occupy it two things were necessary: 1. A colony must be planted at the mouth of the Mississippi, to control its navigation and shut out the Spaniards.
	www.sakoman.net /pg/html/11313.htm (5245 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.
		Run by the National Society of Colonial Dames of America.
		Colonial house, part of Thomas Whitlock homestead, 1663-1703.
	pirate.shu.edu /~luriemax/new_jersey_colonial_sites.htm (121 words)

	Microforms Collection, UM Libraries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Colonial Office, American and West Indies, Original Correspondence, etc., 1606-1807: Massachusetts and New England, 1620-1783.
		The filmed correspondence of the royal governors reveals their struggle with the House of Representatives and the elected Council of the colony.
		List of Colonial Office Records Preserved in the Public Record Office.
	www.lib.umd.edu /UMS/UMCP/MICROFORMS/great_britain_massachusetts.html (179 words)

	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.
	www.friesian.com /newspain.htm (8286 words)

	British Government Documents at CU Boulder Libraries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		A chronological listing and text of treaties from the Treaty of Munster in 1648 to the treaties signed in Paris in 1783.
		Colonial Office: List of Colonial Office Records (as at January 1962).
		The Commission was first appointed in 1869 and set out to prepare calendars or detailed lists of all the major manuscript collections brought to their attention.
	ucblibraries.colorado.edu /govpubs/for/british/govpub3.htm (1825 words)

	Master List of Finding Aids in Manuscript and like Collections in the Princeton University Library
		Master list is in two parts A to LM to Z
		Consists of correspondence, documents, and manuscripts of James Alexander, the bulk of which relate to the allocation of land, primarily in New Jersey, or to the legal and government problems arising from its ownership during the period Alexander was surveyor-general of New Jersey and, later, New York.
		In addition, there are letters and documents signed by colonial governors of New York and New Jersey, including William Burnet, Robert Hunter, Edward Hyde Cornbury, Cadwallader Colden, and Jonathan Belcher, as well as letters by David Ogden, and Richard Stockton.
	libweb2.princeton.edu /rbsc2/aids/msslist/colls1.htm (14139 words)

	Amazon.com: The American Revolution: A History (Modern Library Chronicles): Books: Gordon S. Wood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The widespread violence and King George III's declaration that the colonies were in open revolt helped push the Americans into declaring their independence.
		With the Northwest Ordinance, the Americans acknowledged the Western settlers as the equals of the thirteen original colonies.
		A list by Ronald A. Robinson, Attorney and former Navy pilot
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679640576?v=glance (2446 words)

	Records of the British Colonial Office
		Records of the British Colonial Office, Class 5 Files.
		Part 4: Royal Instructions and Commissions to Colonial Officials, 1702-1784 (primarily consisting of instructions for the Colonial Governors and letters to plantations)
		Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- History -- Sources.
	library.truman.edu /microforms/british_colonial_records.htm (234 words)

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