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  ipedia.com: List of Governors of Connecticut Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
1 Governors of the Colony of Connecticut, 1639-1662
2 Governors of the Colony of New Haven, 1639-1665
Governors of the Colony of New Haven, 1639-1665
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  Encyclopedia: Colonial governors by year   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
This is a list of the governors of colonies, protectorates, or other dependencies in each year.
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).
1847 colonial governors - Events of 1848 - 1849 colonial governors - Colonial governors by year See also: List of state leaders in 1848 List of religious leaders in 1848 List of international organization leaders in 1848 Portugal Angola - Pedro Alexandrino da Cunha, Governor-General of Angola (1845-1848) Adrião da Silveiro...
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 Hirst, Free Trade and Other Fundamental Doctrines of the Manchester School, Part IV, Essay 2: Library of Economics and ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Colonies are supposed to be useful either for political or commercial purposes, and with reference to these objects they should be divided into two classes, which should be considered separately; first, military stations, acquired chiefly for political purposes; secondly, colonies, properly so-called, supposed to be of value chiefly for commercial objects.
However, the governor at once hastened to the frontier; by his orders Kaffirland was invaded; but every arrangement was so ill made that our troops were repulsed; twice our baggage-waggons were cut off; and the victorious Kaffirs, in their turn, invaded the colony.
In 1842 the free population of that colony amounted to 37,000, and on the average of the four years ending with 1844, the expenditure, exclusive of immigration, was £161,000, or at the enormous rate of £4 6s.
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 Encyclopedia: 1847   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was a scientist, inventor, and founder of Bell Canada, who was known as the father of the telephone.
Princess Marie Sophie Frederikke Dagmar (November 26, 1847 - October 13, 1928) was born as the second daughter of Louise of Hesse and Christian of Glucksburg.
Categories: 1847 January 19 is the 19th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar.
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 SingaporeMoms - Parenting Encyclopedia - List of Governors of Connecticut
The following is a list of Governors of the State of Connecticut, from the Colonial period through present day.
2 Governors of the Colony of New Haven, 1639-1665
Governors of the Colony of New Haven, 1639-1665
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 Complete List of NYS Attorneys General   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Governors
Returning to New York, he became a member of the governor's council in 1729 and a judge of the colony's supreme court in 1731.
After serving under the earl of Essex in the Netherlands and Ireland, he became a member of the Virginia Company and was appointed governor of the colony in...
The Governors List: What "too much" success has done.(President Bush seems eager to shift power from the federal government to the states, despite the fact that many states are in economic difficulties)
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 Records Relating to Criminal Trials, Appeals, and Pardons, Information Leaflet #9   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Lists of county and city criminal court records from the colonial period are found in Douglas Greenberg, Crime and Law Enforcement in the Colony of New York 1691-1776 (Ithaca: 1976), and Julius Goebel and T. Raymond Naughton, Law Enforcement in Colonial New York: A Study in Criminal Procedure (1664-1776) (New York: 1944; repr.
These lists not only provide the names of and summary data about individuals who were pardoned, but also constitute a summary record of inmates of state prisons during most of the nineteenth century.
Occasionally found in the file are the Governor's public statement of grant of clemency or pardon; and the convict's acceptance of any conditions attached to the grant of clemency.
www.archives.nysed.gov /a/researchroom/rr_legal_trials.shtml   (6023 words)

  
 List of Governors of New York information - Search.com
This is a list of the Governors of New York.
The Governor of the U.S. state of New York is the highest executive officer of the state, was originally chosen for a term of two years.
Lists of governors of states of the United States
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 List of Newfoundland and Labrador lieutenant-governors - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
This is a list of viceroys for the colony, dominion and province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Governors of New France (1627-1760) - Governors of Acadia - Northwest Territories (1869-1905)
List of Newfoundland and Labrador lieutenant-governors, Proprietary Governors (1610-1728), French Gouverneurs of Plaisance (1655-1713), Commodore-Governors (1729-1825), Civil Governors (1825-1855), Colonial and Dominion Governors (1855-1934), Commission Governors (1934-1949), Post-Confederation Lieutenant-Governors (1949-present) and External Link.
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 Dictionary of Australian Biography We-Wy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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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 Immigrant Arrivals: A Guide To Published Sources: Bibliographies & Guides - Local History & Genealogy Reading ...
The passenger lists include name of vessel, ports of embarkation and arrival, date of arrival, and the names of 7,300 passengers--their ages, sex, and often the place of last residence, and final destination.
Lists 14,263 Icelanders according to their last place of residence in Iceland (by shire, community, farm, and house), year of emigration, marital status, age, port of embarkation, ship, destination, and source.
Approximately 55,000 names from 100,000 passenger lists, chronologically arranged by date of arrival: name, relationship in the household, sex, age, occupation, destination, country of origin, vessel, port of embarkation, on board accommodation, port of arrival.
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 A-E Hereditary Society Listings
The listings are alphabetical, and the index links at the bottom of this text will direct you to the page you seek.
If any information here is incorrect, or the officers of any society listed here wish certain elements to be altered or removed, please contact the HSC webmaster, and he will do so in a timely manner.
It is a prerequisite that a candidate shall be a descendant, in the male line, of a forefather resident prior to July 4, 1776, in one of the North American Colonies, that afterwards became the thirteen original states, and shall be nominated for membership and seconded by members of the Order.
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 Canada in the Making - Specific Events & Topics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
These were rejected by the colonial authorities, which contributed to his views becoming more extreme and his leadership in the rebellions of 1837 and 1838.
Earl Grey, the new secretary of state for war and the colonies, made it clear to Elgin that Britain had no interest in exercising any more influence in the colonies than was necessary to prevent one colony from injuring another or the empire as a whole.
In 1847, the government was defeated and a new one, led by Joseph Howe, formed in February 1848.
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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.
www.sec.state.ri.us /library/riinfo/governors   (694 words)

  
 Microform list
Ranks listed are those held by the soldier at the time the medal was awarded.
Governors, BG Stephen W. Kearny, COL Richard B. Mason and Lt. Henry W. Halleck's official transmissions concerning, administration, Indian affairs, trade, customs, property rights claims and the discovery of gold in the California territory.
List is arranged first by source then by a combination of location and topic.
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 Jamaican Family Search Free Pages and Samples [F]
This is the List of Members of the Friendly Lodge 383 in Montego Bay from 1818 to 2000, and the list of Members of the Cornwall Lodge, 450 (697) from 1815 to 1830.
List of Governors in Jamaica, 1675 to 1877
List of Church of England Rectors in St. Thomas in the East 1708-1817: Rectors.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Governors-General
He served as governor of Chad (1938-40), and then as governor-general of French Equatorial Africa (1940-44), attempting to develop the economy of the region while...
As governor general of Canada (1838), he produced a report which became the basis of British colonial policy.
In Nigeria he served as high commissioner (1900–06) and governor and governor-general (1912–19).
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 Recommended Reading List   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Some of the listings are historical works, and some are genealogy related texts, many of which you have probably seen and read already.
This work is Cunningham’s contribution to the series called “Colonial Histories” which is a concentrated look at the history of the thirteen original colonies and their individual contributions to the history of America as a nation.
In his Preface to “Colonial Histories” Cunningham says, “It was inevitable that New Jersey would become the pathway for the foot travelers, the horseback riders, and the stagecoaches moving between New York and Philadelphia and between Boston and the colonies to the south.
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 Records in the New York State Archives Relating to Women   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Records of the Governor's office are an essential source of information on the role of women in government and on public policy issues relating to women.
And Governors' appointment correspondence files and letter books, comprised mainly of correspondence concerning requests or recommendations for appointment to positions in State government, can be useful for research into the role of women in State government and into "traditional" women's occupations.
The Division for Women advises the Governor, acts as an advocate on women's issues, and works with agencies to ensure women's interests are considered in the formulation of public policy.
www.archives.nysed.gov /a/researchroom/rr_pgc_women.shtml   (2367 words)

  
 The Political Graveyard: Society of Colonial Wars, politicians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Governor of Kentucky, 1931; circuit judge in Kentucky 14th District, 1936-67.
Governor of Connecticut, 1931-39; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Connecticut,
The listings are incomplete; development of the database is a continually ongoing project.
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 The British Raj
Indeed, British Rule in India, known immortally as the British Raj, was a result of the Victorian eraís infusion of British liberal philosophy in colonial policy and social governance with that of the diverse, regional, religious and princely regimes that defined the Indian mosaic.
In all, this amalgam of colonial control and traditional feudalism reflected and in some ways deepened the regional and local disunities of India.
At the top of the list of discontented were the great men and women whose fortunes, supplied at the governmentís expense and living in relative comfort, had been reversed by the British.
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 Gale . The Making of the Modern World . Title Lists . List   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
And also a list of all the laws, passed from the settlement of the island, which are now become obsolete, expired, or have had their effect
The Colonial policy of Great Britain, considered with relation to her North American provinces and West India possessions, wherein the dangerous tendency of American competition is developed...
Colonial Bishoprics : speeches of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Bishop of London, Mr.
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 Duely and Constantly Kept
The Supreme Court of Judicature, or Supreme Court, was the colony's highest court of common law, with both original and appellate jurisdiction.
These appeals were made to the royal governor and his council sitting as a court for the correction of errors and appeals.
Today, most of the extant records of the colonial Supreme Court of Judicature are in the custody of the New York County Clerk, who is also clerk of the modern State Supreme Court.
www.courts.state.ny.us /history/elecbook/duely/pg9.htm   (1502 words)

  
 Death Penalty Links
List of Executions in 2004 by name and state; Number of executions since 1976 by state and race; List of jurisdictions with or without death penalty; Current death row population by state and race.
List of executed prisoners since 1977 by name, date, state, method, and names of victims; Number of executions since 1977 by year and state; Texas executions by county; Upcoming executions scheduled.
Listing of world countries that permit capital punishment, or have outlawed capital punishment and the year it was outlawed.
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 Spanish and Portuguese 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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 Archives Office of Tasmania : Brief guide 021- records useful for genealogical research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Other less complete series of records listing passengers can be found among the records of the Governors Office, the Colonial Secretary's Office and the Customs Department.
The applications can be found in the files of the Colonial and Chief Secretary's Department and the Oaths of allegiance and the copies of certificates are among the records of the Supreme Court The first Act enabling the Lieutenant Governor to grant letters of Denization was passed in 1835.
The first roll is for Hobart only published in 1847, the next list, including both Hobart and Launceston, appears in 1853 and from 1858 all districts are included more or less annually.
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 The Libraries at SUNY Potsdam: Index List
A complete list of historically interesting periodicals available at SUNY Potsdam is the Early Periodicals database.
The Correspondence of the Colonial Governors of Rhode Island.
Data includes a detailed subject index, a list of Bulletins, an index to authors and titles, to illustrations, and to contributions of North American Ethnology, Introductions and Miscellaneous Publications.
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 Wennawoods Publishing Book Store
With Pennsylvania as keystone of the colonies and gateway to the west, it is indeed appropriate that Sipe called the “Indian Wars” of the Eastern Frontier the Indian Wars of Pennsylvania.
A list of the authorities used is given with each name and a general bibliography follows at the conclusion of the work.
This name, derived from the third Lord de la Warr, Sir Thomas West, newly appointed governor of the English Colonies at Jamestown in 1610, applied to the people living on the shores of “de la Warr Bay” and the banks of the river emptying into this body of water.
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