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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.
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  List of Lists
List of Ceremonial counties of England by Population
List of Chancellors of the University of Cambridge
List of Chancellors of the University of Mississippi
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 Rhode Island Office of the Secretary of State
From 1647 to 1663, the colony was governed by a President, with four Assistants.
On June 3, 1686, King James II appointed Sir Edmund Andros to be Governor of New England, and on September 13, 1686, instructed him to demand the surrender of Rhode Island’s Royal Charter.
John Coggeshall resumed the office of Deputy Governor, but Walter Clarke did not resume the office of Governor that he had been elected to in 1686.
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 Land, Agriculture-Mitchell   (Site not responding. Last check: )
What was described as a valuable colony was given up because of the number of proprietors, disagreements and disputes among them, their inability to settle the matter of quitrents, or annual land use fees, in South Carolina, and their fear that they would lose the colony in case of invasion by Spain.
Both Governor Alexander Spotswood of Virginia and Moseley recommended to Carteret that his one-eighth part of Carolina be set up as a single district and that the northern boundary be the Virginia-North Carolina line, since that was the only boundary in the entire province that had been fixed.
The 1773 assembly reminded Henry Eustace McCulloh, the agent of the colony, that the Granville land office had been closed to the “inconvenience and grievance” of the settlers in the province; McCulloh was asked to use his utmost endeavors to induce the Crown to purchase the district.
www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us /sections/hp/colonial/Nchr/Subjects/mitchell.htm   (10475 words)

  
 Dictionary of Australian Biography We-Wy
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.
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 List of colonial governors in 1805 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1804 colonial governors - Events of 1805 - 1806 colonial governors - Colonial governors by year
Macau - Caetano de Sousa Pereira, Governor of Macau (1803-1806)
New South Wales - Philip Gidley King, Governor of New South Wales (1800-1806).
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 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
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 Jamaican Family Search Genealogy Research Library home page
There are several lists: a list of property owners and pens, sugar estates and plantations, arranged by parishes; a business directory listed by trades; a list of persons living in Kingston and St. Andrew; a list of persons living outside that area; and a list of Ministers arranged by denomination.
List One consisted of 145 families, for a total of 347 individuals,described as "white families and artificers." At the end of the page you will find a report taken from the Journals of the House of Commons in 1753 concerning the efficacy of the Acts.
List of Regiments in Jamaica 1702- 1962, from a list at the National Library of Jamaica.
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 World Almanac for Kids
The Speaker of the state Senate succeeds the governor should the latter resign, die, or be removed from office.
Hunters began crossing the mountains from the British colonies on the Atlantic coast in the 1760s, and they were soon followed by permanent settlers.
The Tennessee Unionist Andrew Johnson was military governor of the occupied state from 1862 until 1865, when he became vice-president and later president of the U.S. After the war an unpopular minority government led by William G.
www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/states/tennessee.html   (3535 words)

  
 Tyler, Education in Colonial Virginia. III. Free Schools
At length, in 1805, the two schools were incorporated in one as the Hampton Academy, and, aided by new contributions, continued for many years as a prosperous institution for the benefit of the children of Elizabeth City and of Poquoson parish, York county.
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.
James Blair, a Scotch clergyman, recently arrived in the colony, assumed the initiative, and Governor Francis Nicholson and his council, as well as the Convention of Clergy held at Jamestown in 1690, enthusiastically adopted the proposals drawn by him for a college, to be recommended to the next General Assembly.
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 3c. Hollingbourne
The historians of the period all record that on the first occasion his affability and apparent interest in their welfare won golden opinions from the planters, but that his second appearance was characterized by exhibitions of rapacity which disgusted all who came into contact with.
list of private acts in Ruffhead, iii) to naturalise the foreign born wives brought home from the exile by several of the cavaliers, she was described as 'Margaret Lady Culpeper, wife of the Right Honourable Thomas Lord Culpeper, Baron of Thoresway...
As the British merchant claimed the monopoly of colonial commerce, as the British manufacturer valued Virginia only as a market for his goods, so the British Courtiers looked to appointments in America as a means of enlarging their own revenues or providing for their dependants.
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 1805 -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: )
1802 1803 1804 - 1805 - 1806 1807 1808
1805 was a (additional info and facts about common year starting on Tuesday) common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar).
January 11 - (A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region) Michigan Territory is created.
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 Cyndi's List - U.S. - Georgia
Listing of addresses and phone numbers for all the county recorders.
List of 486 victims of lynchings in Georgia from the 1880s to the present.
Listing includes (when known) the convict's name, age, race, sex, occupation, crime, date of execution, method of execution and whether it was a single or multiple execution.
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 Complete List of NYS Attorneys General
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   (0 words)

  
 List of the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies
List of the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies
Chronological list of Portuguese possessions in Asia: India and Bangladesh
Chronological list of Dutch possessions in Asia: Arabia and Persian Gulf
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 Middle East Open Encyclopedia: 1805   (Site not responding. Last check: )
This is an extract from The Middle East Open Encyclopedia, made possible through the Wikimedia Foundation.
1805 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar).
Iraq Museum International always displays the most recent published revision of the source article, 1805; all previous versions may be viewed here.
www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref/index.php?title=1805   (667 words)

  
 Political Sermons of the American Founding Era: 1730-1805 - Part 2 1774-1781: The Online Library of Liberty
And therefore the attempts of the British parliament to impose taxes on the colonies, may be resisted by the colonies, perfectly consistent with their allegiance to their king.
An English colony is, a number of persons to whom the king grants a charter, permitting them to settle in some far country as a corporation, enjoying such powers as the charter grants, to be administered in such a manner as the charter prescribes.
The legislature of a colony may be compared to the vestry of a large parish: which may lay a cess on its inhabitants, but still regulated by the law: and which (whatever be its internal expences) is still liable to taxes laid by superior authority.
oll.libertyfund.org /Texts/LFBooks/Sandoz0385/HTMLs/0018_Pt03_Part2.html   (13785 words)

  
 West Indies Papers - UF Special and Area Studies Collections
Correspondence of the various colonial governors of the British West Indies together with financial accounts and pay warrants.
Correspondence of the various colonial governors of the British West Indies, together with financial accounts and pay warrants, during the latter part of the 18th and the early half of the 19th centuries.
Most are in English, including those from foreign colonies dating from periods of British occupation.
www.uflib.ufl.edu /spec/manuscript/guides/WestIndies.htm   (835 words)

  
 Historical Data
Baltzer has been incorrectly listed as a son of the Swiss immigrant Konrad Wirdt or Wirtz, but the verified record of his birth in the Rauwiller Reformed KB (in the Alsace) proves that he is a son of Johann Ulrich Wirth.
From the Colonial Records, volume 11, page 597: On 19 October 1778, the lieutenant of Northampton County was empowered and ordered to draw out two classes, in case of attack by the Indians.
Hollenbach says he was on all Heidelberg tax lists from 1781 through 1788.
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 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.
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 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)

  
 Early Kentucky History
This stream called "Shawanoe" by the Indians, was re-named by Virginia explorer Dr. Thomas Walker in 1750 in honor of the Duke of Cumberland.
The eight justices appointed by Governor James Garrard on 20th of December 1800 were Charles Diberal [Dibrell], Martin Syms [Sims], Edmund N. Cullom, James Montgomery, James Jones, Rawleigh Clack, Samuel Hinds and James Evans.
This battle was one of the bloodiest wars ever fought between the Shawnee Indians under Chief Cornstalk and the Colonials commanded by Lord Dunmore and Col. Andrew Lewis at the confluence of the Ohio and the Great Kanawha Rivers, now in Mason County, West Virginia.
www.junebaldwinbork.com /wayne/page3/history1.htm   (2424 words)

  
 "Guide - Historical Resources"   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Lists of elders, deacons, trustees, and members printed in J. Blayney's History of the First Presbyterian Church and in the manuscript Presbyterian marriage records for 1801 to 1815 have been processed and integrated.
The practice of listing all living blood relations in a will documents an individual's continued livelihood and provides an important life sign for children covering the years between their baptism and marriage.
The City Records list the members of the common council, the holders of other municipal offices, describe the regular and extraordinary activities of the city government (including a few Mayor's Court sessions), detail city financial dealings (including contractors and real estate transactions), and provide information on community issues and on the lives of city residents.
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 Papers of George Washington
Fairfax Parish: vestry elections, 7:361-63, 384-85; created, 7:362-63; GW's tithables in, 7:377, 443, 516; 8:104, 221, 357, 479; 9:55, 238-39; 10:137; GW designates voters from parish on poll list, 7:383-84; collector of levies for, 8:356; churches in, 9:180-83; 10:187; rectors of, 9:191; 10:187
See also Fort Dunmore; Fort Duquesne; Forks of the Ohio; Fort Pitt; Pittsburgh
Fort Frederick (Maryland), 3:215, 237, 382; 4:196, 236; construction of, 3:209, 210, 214, 224, 232, 233, 305; GW at, 3:269; as rendezvous for troops, 5:118, 132, 158; location, 5:119; roads to, 5:119, 120, 149, 251; distances to, 5:357; Governor Sharpe at, 5:429
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 archivists newsletter - BULLDOG, Maryland State Archives
In the colonies, this conflict was known as King George's War (1744-1748), because it involved the family connection of German born and German bred George I. To a large extent, it was fought in Europe, but in the New World, it took place in Canada.
With assistance from the northern colonies, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and an army of civilians, led by William Pepperrell, aided by the British, fleet, the impossible was accomplished.
Governor Shirley now turned to plans for the invasion of Canada by a colonial militia, but the British military were not about to allow such an independent venture for their colonial subjects.
mdarchives.state.md.us /msa/refserv/bulldog/bull87/html/bull87b.html   (13172 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.
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 New York State Library: Annotated Bibliography of Selected New York State Maps: 1793-1900   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In the colonial period, and during the Revolution, the vast majority of North American maps were published in Europe, mainly by the British and French.
The situation for these nineteenth century maps is particularly complex, for the copyright for some maps was sometimes purchased from the author by the publisher, and some publishers also controlled printing, or bought a copyright for subsequent reprinting.
Lists of steamboat mileage from New York City to Albany, Philadelphia, Niagara.
www.nysl.nysed.gov /msscfa/mapsbibl.htm   (10868 words)

  
 Pre-Republic Governors of Texas - Texas State Library
According to MARTINEZ PACHECO, RAFAEL, The Handbook of Texas Online, Pacheco was appointed ad interim governor of Texas December 5, 1786 and his removal was approved by the viceroy on October 18, 1790.
The list of governors in the 1998-1999 Texas Almanac gives his term of office at 1787-1788, and notes that from 1788 to 1789, the office of governor was suppressed, and the area was ruled by a presidial captain.
According to MUNOZ, MANUEL, The Handbook of Texas Online, Elguezabal became interim governor in 1797 because Munoz was ill, and continued in this post following Munoz' death in July of 1799.
www.tsl.state.tx.us /ref/abouttx/prerepub.html   (246 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.
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