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  Dictionary of Australian Biography We-Wy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
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.
In 1881 Whyte was able to report that the sheep of Tasmania were free from scab disease, a most important gain to the pastoral industry and the whole colony.
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.
gutenberg.net.au /dictbiog/0-dict-biogWe-Wy.html   (20437 words)

  
 RHODE ISLAND - LoveToKnow Article on RHODE ISLAND   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
At the head of it is a commissioner of education, appointed by the governor and the Senate, and a board of education, composed of the governor and the lieutenant-governor ex officio and six other members elected by the General Assembly.
Under an act of the 12th of April 1883, as amended on the 4th of April 1902, education is compulsory for children between the ages of seven and fifteen, but the maximum limit is reduced to thirteen for children who are employed at lawful labor.
The majority has occasionally protested by electing a Democratic governor, but he has not been able to accomplish a great deal, because until 1909 he did not have veto power nor effectual means to induce the Senate to ratify his appointments.
67.1911encyclopedia.org /R/RH/RHODE_ISLAND.htm   (8026 words)

  
 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.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/02113b.htm   (6415 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: 1877
Billy the Kid Henry McCarty (November 23, 1859–July 14, 1881) better known as Billy the Kid but also known by the alias William Henry Bonney, was a 19th century American frontier outlaw and murderer who was a participant in the Lincoln County War.
List of Nobel Prize laureates in Chemistry from 1901 to the present day.
This is a list over the heads of government in Denmark, from the establishment of a constitutional monarchy in 1849 until present.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1877   (7242 words)

  
 The Frontier In American History: Chapter III   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Riots occurred when the colonial authorities attempted to assert possession, and the matter was at length compromised in 1719 by allowing Litchfield to be settled in accordance with the town grants, while the colony reserved the larger part of northwestern Connecticut.
The diplomacy of New York governors during this period of the Old West, in securing a protectorate over the Six Nations and a consequent claim to their territory, and in holding them aloof from France, constituted the most effective contribution of that colony to the movement of American expansion.
Among the objects of the colony, as specified in the charters, were the relief of the poor and the protection of the frontiers.
xroads.virginia.edu /~HYPER/TURNER/chapter3.html   (14336 words)

  
 The Growth of Libertarian Thought in America. by Murray Rothbard
The first half of the eighteenth century saw an increasing political stalemate between the contending forces, now generally consisting of Crown and privileged oligarchy as against the rest of the population, This period of quiescence was matched in the mother country, in institutions as well as in thought and opinion.
The far greater democracy in the bulk of the American colonies than in England was a reflection of this breakdown.
One basic influence on colonial American thought was the fact that two contrasting traditions emerged from its Protestant and Puritan heritage.
www.mises.org /cil2ch33.asp   (4924 words)

  
 Pacific Islands, Colonial Australia and New Zealand
The governors of the colony had been naval officers, the last of whom was William Bligh of mutiny on the Bounty fame.
Macquarie urged the colony's elite to conduct themselves with propriety and rectitude and urged the lower elements to remain sober.
And in 1829 the Swan River colony was begun on the continent's southwest shore, where the city of Perth would rise.
www.fsmitha.com /h3/h43-pa.html   (8376 words)

  
 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.
gen.culpepper.com /historical/nneck/3c-holling.htm   (4394 words)

  
 PIERCE FAMILY IN MISSISSIPPI
Meaning on the 1850 Census she should be listed as 80 instead of the 70, as reported.
He is listed because he, either didn't pay or because he had moved away.
Listed among the records were the births of five SMITH children.
www.geocities.com /texasrose_42   (2545 words)

  
 Governors of the Philippines during the Spanish colonial period
PEDRO DE SARRIO—Appointed governor (ad interim) for the second time, November 22, 1787, on departure of Basco; insurrection in Ilocos because of tobacco monopoly, 1787; death of archbishop Santa Justa y Rufina, December 15, 1787; term as governor, November 22, 1787-July 1, 1788.
JOSÉ MALCAMPO Y MONJE—Marques de San Rafael and rear-admiral; becomes governor, June 18, 1874; conquest of Joló, 1876; given title of count of Mindanao, December 19, 1876; mutiny of artillerymen; term as governor, June 18, 1874-February 28, 1877; given titles of count of Joló and viscount of Mindanao, July 20, 1877.
RAMON BLANCO—Becomes governor, 1893; electric light established in Manila, 1895; formation of Katipunan society; outbreak of insurrection, August 30, 1896; Blanco opposed by ecclesiastics; term as governor, 1893-December 9 (date of royal decree removing him), 1896.
www.zamboanga.com /html/Spanish_governors_of_the_philippines.htm   (3240 words)

  
 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)

  
 Asia Times: India's railways: New-found sympathy for the devil
NEW DELHI - Exactly a century and a half after British colonials brought the steam engine and the railways to the subcontinent, few can deny its overwhelming role in the lives of the people on a subcontinent that is incurably riven by caste and religious prejudice.
In a sense, Gandhi's struggle against colonialism began the day he was thrown out of a first-class compartment in South Africa because of his color.
On April 16 of this year, no fewer than six federal ministers were among the dignitaries who boarded the seven ivory-and-cinnamon-liveried coaches drawn by a vintage "iron horse" to steam through the same route from the gothic gem of a station, Victoria Terminus, to Thane.
www.atimes.com /ind-pak/DD24Df03.html   (1060 words)

  
 United Kingdom: Colonial Flags
The governor flew the Union Jack with the badge of the colony in a laurel wreath in the centre of the St George's cross.
We further submit that the Governors of Your Majesty's Dominions in Foreign Parts, and Governors of all ranks and denomination administering the Governments of British Colonies and dependencies be authorised to fly the Union Jack with the Arms of the Badge of the Colony emblasoned in the centre thereof.
Saint Lucia: no disc; the governor wrote in 1919 that the badge was not used on the Blue Ensign, just the letters 'H.M.' in white, which stood for 'harbour master', not 'his Majesty'.
flagspot.net /flags/gb-coflg.html   (2291 words)

  
 African Forum
The equivalence of individuals within groups derived concretely from the manipulation of people in the mechanics of colonial administration, just as museums of African art derived from the possibilities of thievery in discrete periods of conquest, and animal "families" in natural history museums were assembled from kills made within particular safaris.
In 1881, Eastman formed a partnership with William Walker, the first camera-maker to adopt the manufacturing methods pioneered by the gun-maker Eli Whitney in the United States, which permitted the use of interchangable parts.
Colonial personnel in Africa prided themselves on interior knowledge, but they took their general orders from metropolitan officials living far away, whether in Mafeking and Cape Town, or the Foreign Office in London and the colonial ministry in Paris.
www.h-net.org /~africa/africaforum/Landau.html   (6462 words)

  
 Presidential Inaugurations: A Selected List of References
List of motion pictures and sound recordings relating to Presidential inaugurations, compiled by E. Daniel Potts.
Includes lists of committee members, program of promenade concert, order of dancing, and menu.
Includes lists of committee members, program of promenade concert, order of dancing, and bill of fare.
lcweb2.loc.gov /ammem/pihtml/freitag.html   (8006 words)

  
 Political Science
Describes items listed on the table of contents page of individual issues of more than 11,000 journals in a wide range of subject fields.
For details of current coverage, click here, and click on "List all periodicals." Full-text is searchable, with high accuracy for 19th century materials, less accuracy for 18th century materials.
Lists tens of thousands of discrete files curently on deposit with ICPSR that may be downloaded, with detailed descriptions of the holdings.
www.lib.uchicago.edu /e/su/polsci   (7445 words)

  
 Livingston
But though the line of the Manor had thus covered itself with honour, it is not the senior surviving branch of the old House of Callendar.
In 1690 and 1691 he led expeditions to Canada; and was the acting Governor of the State of New York in 1719-1720.
You are just as likely to be related to the founder of the Virginia colony, or the Scottish economist, or the nephew of Senator Kennedy, or none of the above.
robertsewell.tripod.com /bruce.html   (4859 words)

  
 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.
www.potsdam.edu /library/home/Subjects/HistUSPrimSour.php   (2957 words)

  
 Early Kentucky History
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.
In 1837, he built a mill which was sold in 1881 to Joseph Hurt.
www.junebaldwinbork.com /wayne/page3/history1.htm   (2424 words)

  
 Windham County, Connecticut, Genealogy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
In the early commerce between the colonies of Massachusetts and Connecticut a popular route over the land was through the region now covered by Windham county.
Remote from the sea shore, and possessing no navigable lakes or rivers, it was perfectly reasonable that this territory should be for a time overlooked, or rather that it should be passed by as a goodly land for the home-seekers in a new world to locate upon.
List of Jurors for Windham County---names the towns, then the person serving from that particular town.
users.rcn.com /lmerrell/windham.html   (2853 words)

  
 Countries Go-Gu
1871 Federal Colony of the Windward Islands 1 Jul 1956 Territory of the Windward Islands 1 Jan 1960 dissolved Governors 1833 - 1885 the governors of Barbados 1885 - 1888 Sir Walter Joseph Sendall (b.
Governors 1700 De Bellair 1701 - 1708 Joseph de Bouloc 1711 - 1716 Guillaume-Emmanuel-Théodore de Maupeou, comte de l'Estrange 1717 - 3 Jan 1721 Jean-Michel L'Espinay de la Longueville (b.
1834) Lieutenant governors (acting for the governors to 1834) 1689 - 1703 Bernard Ellis 1704 - 1706 Sir Edmund Andros (b.
rulers.org /rulg2.html   (10509 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)

  
 Georgia's Gilded Age
With the election of James Smith as governor (list of Georgia governors) in January, 1872, the Democrats once again had an iron grip on the state's political process.
Among those involved, to varying degrees of corruption, were governor Alfred Colquitt (a former Ku Klux Klan leader), Senator John Gordon, Western and Atlantic Railroad President Joseph Brown and Atlanta Constitution editor/owner Henry Grady.
Atkinson is one of those governors who is under-recognized for his achievements in office (1894-1898), specifically promoting both primary and secondary education, make more high-level government positions elected instead of appointed and vetoing a bill that would have made football illegal in colleges.
ourgeorgiahistory.com /history101/gahistory09.html   (1157 words)

  
 Sources for the American Revolution at the South Carolina Department of Archives and History
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.
Listed in Great Britain, Public Record Office, Lists and Indexes No. xxxvi: List of Colonial Office Records, Preserved in the Public Record Office (Reprint Edition with annotations, New York: Kraus Reprint Corporation, 1963), p.
www.state.sc.us /scdah/exhibits/revolution/revsources.htm   (8805 words)

  
 Rambles in colonial byways. v.II:a machine-readable transcription.
In 1881, Frederick Douglass, white-haired and honored of men, was moved to revisit the scenes of his childhood and his thrall, and one day found himself at the door of Wye House.
This episode of Claiborne's Virginia chaplain gave the Anglican Church a permanent foothold on the Eastern Shore, for as the colony of the Isle of Kent spread gradually to the mainland, wherever it fixed itself the parish was organized, the church was built, and the magistrate's duties devolved upon the vestrymen and church-wardens.
These missionaries reached the colony in June, 1697, and were received, as the ancient record states, “with astonishment and tears of joy.” Soon after their arrival Gloria Dei was built in a fervor of pious zeal, carpenters and masons giving their work, and the good pastor daily carrying the hod.
lcweb2.loc.gov /gc/lhbtn/9409b/9409b.sgm   (17674 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)

  
 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)

  
 New Zealand
The titles premier and first minister were variously applied to each of the principal ministers until 1869, when premier became customary.
Although the title prime minister was first used formally in the Schedule of the Civil List Act of 1873, no one used the title officially until Richard John Seddon, beginning in 1893.
Note: The first two kings were leaders of the revolt against the colony; after the second king's surrender he and his successors maintained a symbolic and prestigious community leadership to this day.
www.worldstatesmen.org /New_Zealand.htm   (2047 words)

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