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	Proprietary House - Perth Amboy, New Jersey History
		The Proprietary House occupies an important place in American history as the residence of the last appointed Royal Governor of New Jersey, William Franklin.
		It was built on a sizable scale with the intent to bolster the prestige of its owners, the Proprietors of East Jersey, by convincing the colonial governor to choose the house and Perth Amboy as his official residence.
		When Governor Franklin finally selected the house as his residence a decade later, he was afforded elaborate new interior decorations and elegant new stables, but his tenancy was short lived because of his arrest and removal from Perth Amboy in 1776.
	www.proprietaryhouse.org /history.html (504 words)

	The Upton Scott House, Annapolis, Maryland
		Governor Sharpe was a welcome visitor at the Scott house until the time of his death in 1789, when he appointed his friend, the owner, one of his executors.
		Governor Robert Eden, the last of the Proprietary Governors, who served from 1769 to 1774, was at times almost a member of the Scott household.
		Governor Eden was looked upon with favor by the patriots in Maryland because he was always moderate and advised the repeal of the tax on tea.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles15/shrines-47.shtml (1202 words)

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		The royal governor was the direct representative, the general agent, of the crown in the colonies.
		When Governor Bernard was appealed to for a charter in the name of the crown without any act on the part of the assembly, he was about to accede to the request when the cry was raised that he had not the requisite power.
		The right of proprietary governors to incorporate was presumably similar to that of the royal governors, except as the proprietary patents from the crown may have contained limitations on the proprietary's power at this point.
	melbecon.unimelb.edu.au /het/davisjoe/corps (9421 words)

	Proprietary Governor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Under the proprietary system, individuals or companies were granted commercial charters by the King of England to establish colonies.
		Proprietary Governors had legal responsibilities over the colony as well as responsibilities to shareholders to ensure the security of their investments.
		By the early 1700s, nearly all of the proprietary colonies had either surrendered their charters to the crown to become royal colonies, or else had significant limitations placed on them by the crown.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/proprietary_governor (247 words)

	Spanish Governors of Louisiana: Esteban Rodriguez Miro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Governor Miro asks the Cabildo to become involved in repairing the levee particularly on lands that Juan Batista Macarty and Leonardo Massange had abandoned because they could not afford to maintain the levee with their own resources.
		Governor Miro was popular outside of his own domain, as was evidenced by the naming of the Cumberland River region, Miro district in his honor.
		While governor Miro was called upon to act as judge of residence in the investigation of the official acts of governor Galvez.
	www.enlou.com /people/miroe-bio.htm (1935 words)

	Greene, Provincial Governor in the English Colonies of North America. Ch. I
		The proprietary governor was, in a sense, not even a public officer at all, but the agent of a private person or group of persons, intrusted, it is true, with the powers and duties of an officer of State, but charged also with the defence and promotion of distinctly private interests.
		The royal governor, it is true, was frequently called upon to choose between a refusal of supplies by the assembly and disobedience to his instructions; but the proprietary governor was hampered by an additional set of instructions based, not on constitutional and political grounds, but often on purely selfish interests.
		Thus the proprietary governor himself became in a measure a royal officer responsible to the crown.
	www.dinsdoc.com /greene-2-1.htm (6823 words)

	Issac Norris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Moreover, the governor's "Unhappy Temper of Narrowness and Severity" provided Lloyd's anti-proprietary faction with an opportunity to cast aspersions on the members of the 1705 Assembly, who themselves had become "more Cool in such Endeavors because of their Dislike" for Evans's actions, and therefore they chose not to stand for election to the 1706 Assembly.
		The governor's insistence that the disabilities imposed on Quakers in England by the parliamentary affirmation law extended to their brethren in the colonies prevented the trial of several prisoners jailed on capital charges.
		On 3 November of that year Governor Keith informed the council of the proprietor's passing, and the colony's law for continuing the government in that situation was invoked.
	www.bdopl.com /bdopl/bioisno.html (13955 words)

	The Delaware Finns
		By the governor's of New York these Delaware colonists were always referred to as his Majesty's subjects and oath of allegiance had been required in behalf of the inhabitants when the river fell under English rule.
		On the same day the Finns and other old inhabitants of Delaware presented that the governor would be pleased to make them as free as the English members of the province, and that their lands may be entailed on them and their heirs for ever.
		Besides there soon ensued a misunderstanding between the Deputy Governor and Secretary Logan, which all tended to the removal of Evans from his office in the beginning of 1709, and Captain Charles Gookin was dispatched by the Proprietary to assume the office of the Deputy Governor of Pennsylvania.
	www.genealogia.fi /emi/art/article298re.htm (12203 words)

	Provincial
		But a compromise came about when he suggested that the governors of Pennsylvania and Maryland should take jurisdiction over their own subjects, no matter where they settled, until the dispute could finally be settled sometime in the future.
		The proprietary dual-control under which he labored presented too many problems for which he was being held responsible.
		When he returned as resident Governor in 1773 to replace his brother, Richard, they, together, performed two "lasts." Richard delivered to England the last petition to the King of England and John was the last proprietary governor of Pennsylvania.
	www.greencastlemuseum.org /Governors/provincial.htm (1852 words)

	Delaware Chapter IX (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Governor Fletcher, of New York, who was also Governor of Pennsylvania during the suspension of Penn’s authority in May, 1693, was on friendly terms with Kidd and others, and Nicholls, one of his Council, was commonly charged with being agent of the sea-rovers.
		Governor Markham’s alleged son-in-law, James Brown, was denied his seat in the Assembly and put in prison for sailing in a pirate’s vessel.
		The proprietary told them he would have been glad to defer the session to the usual time, but he was summoned away to England by news seriously threatening his and their interests.
	www.accessible.com /amcnty/DE/Delaware/delaware9.htm (11296 words)

	Peace Treaty of 1756
		Governor Denny also announces that he would like himself and the other members of the Proprietary Party to be paid for their time spent at the negotiations.
		Governor Denny says the Proprietary Party has an agreement to repudiate scalp bounties only with the Iroquois, who will in return release white captives.
		After the Quakers and Commissioners of the Assembly question Governor Denny on this agreement the Governor gets anxious and declares that no scalp bounties will be repudiated until all white captives are released.
	www.simpson.edu /~proctorn/1756/SCtreatyF2004-2.htm (1176 words)

	New Jersey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The newly taken lands were divided by King Charles II of England, who gave his brother, the Duke of York (later King James II) the region between New England and Maryland as a proprietary colony (as opposed to a royal colony).
		In 1702 the two provinces were united under a royal, rather than a proprietary, governor.
		The governor of New Jersey is James E. McGreevey (Democrat) and its two U.S. senators are Frank R. Lautenberg (Democrat) and Jon Corzine (Democrat).
	www.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/n/ne/new_jersey.html (1270 words)

	Governor William Franklin - Proprietary House Perth Amboy, New Jersey
		As relations between the Crown and the colonies deteriorated during the years between 1774 and 1776, Governor William Franklin remained loyal to King George III.
		In January of 1776, colonial militiamen placed the Governor under house arrest and held him until the middle of June, just a few weeks before the Declaration of Independence on July 4th.
		At that time, Governor Franklin was formally taken into custody and removed to prison in Connecticut, never again did he return to New Jersey.
	abc.eznettools.net /ProprietaryHouse/Franklin.html (197 words)

	From Revolution to Reconstruction: Outlines: American History (1994): Chapter One: Second Generation of British ...
		The original spark was a clash between Virginia frontiersmen and the Susquehannock Indians, but it soon pitted the common farmer against the wealth and privilege of the large planters and Virginia's governor, William Berkeley.
		New proprietary colonies were established in New York, New Jersey, Delaware and Pennsylvania.
		As a result, when the British colonists began encroaching on Dutch lands in Long Island and Manhattan, the unpopular governor was unable to rally the population to their defense.
	odur.let.rug.nl /~usa/H/1994/ch1_p10.htm (838 words)

	Government House: Proprietary Governors, 1610-1728
		While the island's population remained too small to support formal government institutions, the proprietary governors and their backers were often preoccupied with affairs in England.
		The proprietary governors left no legacy for the naval governors to follow; indeed, the customs of the migratory fishery, such as the fishing admirals system, exerted a far greater influence over the island's constitutional development.
		Although the proprietary governors failed to build a prosperous colony, their turbulent history has become an important part of our cultural memory.
	www.heritage.nf.ca /govhouse/governorship/proprietary.html (854 words)

	wikien.info: Main_Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Kirke returned in 1629 and received the French surrender of Quebec but was ordered to return the colony to the French in 1632 as King Charles I of England had agreed to return France's territories after Louis XIII paid his wife's dowry.
		As a consolation, Kirke was knighted in 1633 and in 1637 he and his partners were given a royal charter giving them possession of Newfoundland with Kirke as Proprietary Governor.
		Kirke took possession of Ferryland ejecting William Hill, who had been proprietary governor on behalf of Cæcilius Calvert, who had succeeded as Baron Baltimore on the death of his father.
	www.hostingciamca.com /index.php?title=David_Kirke (305 words)

	1740
		Governor George Thomas again urged the House to prepare for war, claiming that military self-defense was like protecting oneself against burglars (a point previously made in the PG 1740 carrier's address).
		In diction, logic, and especially in tone, it is the one superior speech prepared by a committee of the New Jersey legislature during the administration of Governor Morris.
		Governor Thomas claimed that his giving reasons for refusing to pass the bill was common in the past and that the "Rights, Privileges and Freedom of an Assembly" are not affected by the governor giving reasons for his refusal.
	www.english.udel.edu /lemay/franklin/1740.html (11140 words)

	WebRoots Library U.S. History
		Governor and some others were for, the remainder of the Assembly unanimously against, the proposed legislation.
		A Royal Governor or a Lord Proprietary's Governor might alike be perplexed by the political turmoil in the mother country.
		Bacon on his quondam seat with the Governor and Council, which seemed a marvellous indulgence to one whom he had so lately proscribed as a rebel." The Assembly of 1676 was of a different temper and opinion from that of the Long Assembly.
	www.webroots.org /library/usahist/potos003.html (13792 words)

	Revolution of 1719. - Steven J. Coker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A Convention of Carolinians met at Charleston and resolved that the Proprietary government and acts of the Proprietors were to be ignored and of no effect.
		The militia, to the surprise of Proprietary Governor Johnson and against his direct orders, drew to Charleston in support of the Convention with colors flying at the market square, at the forts, and on board all ships in the harbor.
		Governor Johnson was exasperated and angered at this insult.
	homepages.rootsweb.com /~scroots/sc11583.htm (448 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Letter from William Penn Proprietary and Governor of Pennsylvania in America to the Committee of the (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Amazon.ca: Books: Letter from William Penn Proprietary and Governor of Pennsylvania in America to the Committee of the
		Letter from William Penn Proprietary and Governor of Pennsylvania in America to the Committee of the
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	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0766168514 (196 words)

	The Guardian's Lifestyles News
		Later in 1695, Proprietary Governor Nicholas Trott laid out Charlestown anew and renamed it Nassau in honour of the Prince of Orange-Nassau, who became William III of England.
		Since the privateers were the only source of prosperity, the community and the Governor turned a blind on their activities.
		The latter governor initiated a new survey of the town and reclaimed much of the mosquito-breeding swamp land so that the town could expand eastward.
	www.thenassauguardian.com /social_community/302646745781677.php (2716 words)

	New Catholic Dictionary: Calvert, Leonard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		(1607-1647) Founder of Maryland and first proprietary governor, brother of Cecilius Calvert, born England; died Maryland.
		The colonists were opposed by William Claiborne of Virginia, the conflicting claims being settled in favor of Lord Baltimore.
		In 1643 the governor went to England and upon his return, 1644, found the colony torn by disturbances resulting from the civil war in England.
	www.catholic-forum.com /saints/ncd01582.htm (80 words)

	Hurst: The Law of Treason: 3
		Charters and proprietary grants and the royal instructions to colonial governors sometimes conferred authority to exercise martial law for the suppression of what might amount to treason.
		The Commissioners stated that: "We think this act not proper to be laid before Her Majesty, the proprietary and governor having already the same protection by law as other Her Majesty's subjects." Accordingly, the Queen in Council repealed the act.
		Of course, it might be contended that since the basic English Statute of Edward III has been traditionally praised as setting limits to a dangerously vague common law of treason, the mere adoption of the English laws descending from this beneficent act showed a restrictive intent on the part of colonial legislatures.
	www.constitution.org /cmt/jwh/jwh_treason_3.htm (11423 words)

	Political Development
		As early as 1864, the governor of the Visayas in Cebu proposed the creation of a new 'politico-military government' to control the eastern part of Negros Island with Dumaguete as the capital.
		The Decree of Union (joining the island of Siquijor to the new province of Negros Oriental) was signed by General Valeriano Weyler (Governor-General of the Philippines) on 19 January 1892 and was ratified by a Real Order dated December 3 of the same year.
		Manuel de la Reguera, Commander of Escalante and Tanjay was appointed temporary Governor of the Province until May 1890 when its first proprietary Governor,, commander of the Cavalry Joaquin Taviera took possession of it.
	www.siquijor.com /aboutsiquijor/politicaldev.htm (545 words)

	Daily Action Report for 03/16/98
		Approved by Governor SB2403 Notice; require to surface owner prior to exploration Dearing or drilling for oil or gas.
		Turner Approved by Governor SB2667 Wildlife violations; require court to notify Dept of Posey Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks of records.
		Dearing Approved by Governor SB3126 Medicaid fraud; investigators to be law enforcement Turner officers.
	billstatus.ls.state.ms.us /1998/daily_action/031698.htm (3947 words)

	New Jersey : NJ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Originally inhabited by tribes of the Lenape, New Jersey became a colony of Britain on March 12, 1664.
		King II of England">Charles II of England gave his brother, the Duke of York (later II of England">James II of England) the region between New England and Maryland as a proprietary colony (as opposed to a royal colony).
		The governor of New Jersey is James E. McGreevey[?] and its two U.S. senators are Frank R. Lautenberg[?] (Democrat) and Jon Corzine[?] (Democrat).
	www.freetemplate.ws /nj/nj.html (631 words)

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