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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 Governors of Delaware - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Governors were chosen in October of 1792 and each subsequent third year, by popular vote for a three year term.
Governors were chosen by popular vote for a four year term.
Governors are chosen by popular vote for a four year term, in November of each Presidential election year, to take office the following January.
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 Encyclopedia: Colonial governors by year   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In politics and in history, a colony is a territory under the immediate political control of a geographically-distant state (or city, in ancient times).
This is a list of heads of state, government leaders, and other rulers in any given year.
This is a list of the leaders of major religions in any given year.
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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   (922 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: 1845   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Ancient and Honorable Order of E Clampus Vitus is a male-only organization dedicated to the study and preservation of the history of California, in particular the history of the Mother Lode and gold mining regions of the state.
Rt Hon George Reid George Houstoun Reid (25 February 1845 – 12 September 1918), Australian politician and fourth Prime Minister of Australia, was born in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, Scotland, son of a Church of Scotland minister, migrated to Victoria with his family as a child.
In 1885, as Middletons chief of staff Gilbert John Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, KG, PC, 4th Earl of Minto (June 9, 1845 – March 1, 1914), known between 1859 and 1891 as Viscount Melgund, was an English politician, Governor General of Canada, and Viceroy of India.
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 Dictionary of Australian Biography We-Wy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Australia
On his arrival in Sydney, Governor Macquarie bluntly informed him that no "Popish missionary" would be allowed to intrude within the settlement, and that every person in the penal colony must be a Protestant.
This colony had been founded in 1836 as a free and "socially superior" Protestant settlement, from which "Papists and pagans" were to have been rigidly excluded.
For a time all the colonies of the Australasian group followed the example initiated by New South Wales in according State aid to the clergy and the denominational schools of the principal religious bodies, Anglicans, Catholics, Presbyterians, and Methodists.
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He led a colony of Frenchmen, in 1562, to what is now South Carolina, built a small fort on a spot which he called Port Royal, and left it in charge of thirty men while he went back to France for more colonists.
By the 1606 charter the colony was limited to 100 miles along the seaboard and 100 miles west from the coast.
As the colonies were growing in population, and as the charters of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Virginia, and Carolina gave them great stretches of territory in the Mississippi valley, it was inevitable that, sooner or later, a bitter contest for possession of the country should take place between the French and the English in America.
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 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
www.colonialvoyage.com /VOCgov.html   (467 words)

  
 New Netherland Project Bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The United States of America
The surrender at the forks of the Ohio was soon known to the governors of Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania.
In the colonies this aroused a bitter spirit; the stamp distributors were induced to abandon their offices by persuasion or intimidation, and delegates from nine colonies met in New York to express disapproval.
This was acquired from France after she had lost the important colonial possession of Hayti, and when Napoleon had decided to renew the war with England.
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 Tullis Family
In 1845, William Tullis and his cousin, James Thrift Smith (the son of James Smith who was the brother of Agnes Smith, William's mother and the wife of Robert Tullis, the founder of R. Tullis and Company) became "managing partners" of the company.
In 1704 Robert Tullis was listed in Burlington County as a Friend unwilling to bear arms and kill.
Priscilla Tullis is listed in 1740 as an adult in membership of Pittsgrove Presbyterian Church.
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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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 archivists newsletter - BULLDOG, Maryland State Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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.
www.mdarchives.state.md.us /msa/refserv/bulldog/bull87/html/bull87b.html   (13172 words)

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