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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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 The Colonial Roots of American Taxation, 1607-1700 - Policy Review, No. 114   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
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.
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 ipedia.com: British Empire Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The sugar-producing colonies of the Caribbean, where slavery became the basis of the economy, were at first England's most important and lucrative colonies.
The American colonies providing tobacco, cotton, and rice in the south and naval materiel and furs in the north were less financially successful, but had large areas of good agricultural land and attracted far larger numbers of English immigrants.
The end of the old colonial and slave systems were accompanied by the adoption of free trade, culminating in the repeal of the Corn Laws and Navigation Acts in the 1840s.
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 Dictionary of Australian Biography We-Wy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
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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 Land, Agriculture-Mitchell
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)

  
 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.
statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us /nc/stgovt/governor.htm#royal   (958 words)

  
 Subject Bibliographies by Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
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)

  
 New Netherland Project Bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Landlord and Tenant in Colonial New York: Manorial Society, 1664-1775.
Indian Affairs in Colonial New York: The Seventeenth Century.
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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 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)

  
 A Chronology of Federal Legislation on Polygamy
Governor was to be appointed trustee-in-trust of or the financial head of the Church, and make a full annual report of all the Churche's moneys.
Wilford was asked to draw up the list of enemies and to write the prayer of damnation, which he did, which contained 400 names of the enemies of the church.
1882 September 16, Hoar amendment to the Edmonds law, Governor of the Territory of Utah was authorized to appoint any vacancies of office that were not filled by the election of August 1882 in consequence of the provisions of the 1862 Morrill Act, and filled the vacancies with his own appointees.
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 Bell Tower Building
Using places listed in the National Register of Historic Places, the itineraries help potential visitors plan their next trip by highlighting the amazing diversity of this country's historic places and supplying accessibility information for each featured site.
The residence that Butler as his own home, located at 205 Columbia Avenue, is listed individually in the National Register of Historic Places and is an interesting adaptation of the Queen Anne style, designed in a narrow, vertical style to meet the restrictions of the dimensions of the city lot on which it is situated.
In 1913, with out-of-state capital pouring into infrastructure, the Western Maryland constructed the grand Cumberland station as a symbol of the railroad's power and importance.
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 GSWC: Bibliography of Pre-Revolutionary NY Resources
List of Pre-1847 Court Records in the State Archives, New York State Archives, Albany: Office of Cultural Education, 1984.
Lists of Inhabitants of Colonial New York Excerpted from the Documentary History of the State of New York by Edmund Bailey O’Callaghan, ed.
A patent is title to land granted by the governor and usually indicates the first land owner of record for that property.
www.hvcn.org /info/gswc/bibliography/NYbibliography.htm   (14153 words)

  
 Political Science   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
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)

  
 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)

  
 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.
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 VALib V49N3 - Minor Weisiger
Henry R. McIlwaine (1870-1934), the State Librarian, advised Governor Henry C. Stuart that a wholesale purchase of the collection was unnecessary, as the Library had many duplicates of the books and it could be bought piecemeal at an expected auction.
At Collis's death in 1900 Arabella inherited a fortune of some twenty-five million dollars, making her one of the richest women in the world, and by 1910 its estimated value was fifty-five million.
In 1913 she married Henry Huntington, who was her age and shared her interest in collecting.
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 Colonial and Post Revolutionary America - TaxGaga
The Stamp Act was passed by Parliament in order to cover about £60,000 of the £200,000 required to station troops in the colonies.
The act was seen by Charles Townshend, Chancellor of the Exchequer, as a way to fund the salaries of governors and other colonial administrators in an effort to shift the balance of power in the Colonies.
Next, in order to discriminate against British shipping in favor of French shipping, Madison made a call for tonnage duties to be levied in three categories: American ships (lowest rate), ships belonging to nations with commercial treaties with the United States, and those of nations with no such treaties (highest rate).
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 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)

  
 List of Governors of North Carolina - InfoSearchPoint.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
List of Governors of North Carolina - InfoSearchPoint.com
This is a list of the governors of North Carolina from the colonial period to the present.
John Archdale 1695-1696 (Governor of North and South Carolina)
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 British Government Documents at CU Boulder Libraries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
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.
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 Master List of Finding Aids in Manuscript and like Collections in the Princeton University Library
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.
In addition, there is a package of material containing an account book (1860) listing the expenses of the Boys' School in Plovdiv which later was incorporated into the American College of Sofia, and a chronological account of Black's life by his son, Cyril E. Black.
libweb2.princeton.edu /rbsc2/aids/msslist/colls1.htm   (14139 words)

  
 Middle East Open Encyclopedia: 1820   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
This is an extract from The Middle East Open Encyclopedia, made possible through the Wikimedia Foundation.
Republic of Buenos Aires (Argentina) establishes a penal colony in Falkland Islands.
Venus de Milo found on the island of Melos.
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 Homework Help for Kids
A list of plurals, collective nouns, sounds, gender and offspring for animals.
A Brief Summary of Utah History, a chronology of Utah's struggle for statehood, Utah facts, and a list of Utah's governors.
Originally published in 1913, this landmark work contains biographies, genealogies and even photographs of pioneers and early residents of the state of Utah.
www.slco.lib.ut.us /kidhelp.htm   (2996 words)

  
 The Valley of the Shadow: Master Bibliography
The Free Negro in Virginia, 1619-1865.Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1913.
List of Field officers, Regiments and Battalions in the Confederate States Army, 1861-1865.
List of Staff Officers of the Confederate States Army.Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1891.
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Guthrie's description of the events of 1913 is dead-on accurate, according to the residents of Calumet; Italian Hall, where the disaster occurred, was still standing in the early 1980s, but has since been torn down.
Conflict between Russia and the Ottoman Empire was almost constant in the nineteenth century, as the Tsar sought to expand his realm and the feeble Turks tried to hold onto their European possessions.
Their four versions were all collected in 1962, from an interesting list of sources: Florence Shiflett of Wyatt's Mountain; David Morris, also of Wyatt's Mountain; Effie Morris, of Shiflett Hollow; and Marybird McAllister, of Brown's Cove.
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 Springfield Library: Reference Desk Bookmarks
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Full-text of the military report on Abu Ghraib prison; from NPR.
Cooperating Libraries of Greater Springfield (CLGS) Union List of Serials
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