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	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
		VETCH, SAMUEL, commander of the garrison at Annapolis Royal, governor of Nova Scotia, and proponent of a plan for the conquest of New France; b.
		Vetch later acquired military experience in the battles of the War of the League of Augsburg, rising to the rank of captain.
		Vetch’s personal letters are found among the Robert Livingston papers in the Livingston-Redmond Coll., Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, N.Y. Copies of his official correspondence are in his Letter Book, Museum of the City of New York; see also BM, Sloane MS 3607, and PANS, MS docs.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=35266 (1691 words)

	Historical Biographies, Nova Scotia: Samuel Vetch (1668-1732).
		The authorities knew how friendly Vetch was with the French and so it was determined that Vetch might prove to be very valuable if he was to be part of a delegation that was sent to Quebec in 1705; he was to take note of the defences and condition of Quebec and report back.
		Vetch, being the charmer that he was, before long, had the court of Queen Ann under his sway.
		Vetch was described by Parkman as being "impetuous, sanguine, energetic, and headstrong, astute withal, and full of ambition."5 Whatever his personality, it was not one that suited Nicholson, Vetch's comrade-in-arms during the capture of Port Royal in 1710.
	www.blupete.com /Hist/BiosNS/1700-63/Vetch.htm (909 words)

	Samuel Vetch
		He was the son of William Vetch, a minister in Edinburgh, was educated there and at the College of Utrecht, Holland, and accompanied William, Prince of Orange, to England, 5 November, 1688.
		The expedition was commanded by Sir Francis Nicholson, Colonel Vetch being adjutant-general, and after the capitulation of Port Royal, 2 October, 1710, the latter remained as governor of the conquered colony.
		Governor Vetch next sent a delegation to the French governor-general at Quebec, the Marquis de Vaudreuil, to announce that Acadia had fallen into the hands of the British and to offer an exchange of prisoners that had been captured at Annapolis for British subjects that were then in Montreal and Quebec.
	famousamericans.net /samuelvetch (835 words)

	Vetch: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
		The vetches are chiefly annuals, distributed over temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere and of South America.
		Vetch seed is often inoculated with nitrogen-fixing bacteria when grown in soil of low fertility.
		Vetches are classified in the division Magnoliophyta, class Magnoliopsida, order Rosales, family Leguminosae.
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/vetch.jsp (1716 words)

	Margaret Livingston Vetch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In 1700, her family's landmark Albany home was the site of her marriage to Samuel Vetch - a recently arrived Scottish adventurer, distant relative, friend of her brother, and thirteen years older than the 19-year-old bride.
		Although they were frequent guests at the Livingston Manor House and maintained her family's winter home in Albany, the new couple were given a "palatial residence" in New York City from where Samuel Vetch could pursue his sometimes-shady commercial interests.
		Samuel Vetch's fortunes continued to decline until his death in debtors prison in 1732.
	www.nysm.nysed.gov /albany/bios/l/mlivingston1069.html (474 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
		In October Port-Royal fell to the British and Vetch was made governor of the fort (soon to be renamed Annapolis Royal) and of a three-mile surrounding area.
		When Vetch quarrelled with Nicholson, Hobby went to England in the spring of 1714 with Nicholson’s encouragement to seek the governorship of Nova Scotia for himself.
		It was hardly coincidence that Hobby’s testimony against Vetch at the Board of Trade (18 Jan. to 4 Feb. 1714/15) was strikingly ineffectual and that Vetch recommended him for the lieutenant-governorship immediately afterward.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=34971 (1273 words)

	Greene, Provincial America, 1690-1740. Ch. X.
		In 1706, Vetch, with a number of other prominent Boston merchants, was convicted of trading with the enemy and fined, though the sentence was annulled by the crown on technical grounds.
		In March, 1709, a royal circular was issued to the northern governors announcing an expedition against the French in accordance with Vetch’s proposals.
		Vetch was given general supervision of the enterprise, and the colonial governments were required to furnish supplies and fixed quotas of militia.
	www.dinsdoc.com /greene-3-10.htm (2065 words)

	The Scot in British North America - Chapter III - British Rule after the Conquest
		Vetch’s plan for taking Canada came to a most unhappy termination by the annihilation of Sir Hoveden Walker’s fleet, which was shattered to pieces on Egg Island, off the coast of Northumberland, in 1711.
		Colonel Vetch, who was as tolerant and mild in policy, as he was bold and enterprising in conquest, urged the British Government to delay the administration of the oath.
		The conciliatory plan of Vetch was abandoned, and the oath tendered to all the French population.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/canada/scot/chapter10.htm (8112 words)

	The Conquest of New France, A Chronicle of the Colonial Wars By George M. Wrong- Chapter 3 from Nalanda Digital Library ...
		One of these was Samuel Vetch, a man somewhat different from the usual type of New England leader, for he was not of English but of Scottish origin, of the Covenanter strain.
		Vetch, himself an adventurous trader, had taken a leading part in the ill-fated Scottish attempt to found on the Isthmus of Panama a colony, which, in easy touch with both the Pacific and the Atlantic, should carry on a gigantic commerce between the East and the West.
		Vetch, always competent, was in command of the colonial military forces, but never had any chance to show his mettle, for during the voyage the seamen were in control.
	www.nalanda.nitc.ac.in /resources/english/etext-project/history/conquestfr/chapter3.html (4537 words)

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		On 3 June 1678, Boston minister Samuel Nowell (1634-1688) delivered a discourse to his congregation based on the image of biblical patriarch Abraham as the first great man of arms fighting in the Lord's cause.
		Beginning with 2 Samuel 1:18, Peabody developed the image of the godly youth who slew Goliath and taught his people the use of arms.
		Samuel Chandler's (1723-1768) Thanksgiving Day sermon, given on 29 November 1759, reminded the faithful that they must rejoice in the defeat of the papist French and be prepared at all times to repel false religion because God required that "true religion" be defended, if necessary by force of arms.
	www.constitution.org /jw/acm_2-m.txt (17198 words)

	The Church of England in Nova Scotia and the Tory Clergy of the Revolution (1891)
		Colonel Vetch was the son of "a godly minister and a glorifier of God in the Grass Market," Edinburgh.
		Vetch, with several others of the Darien expedition, came to New York, where, on the twentieth of December, 1700, he married Margaret, daughter of Robert Livingston, of Albany.
		COLONEL SAMUEL VETCH was again governor from October 20, 1715, the date of his commission, to August 17, 1717.
	anglicanhistory.org /canada/ns/eaton/16.html (4106 words)

	Sewell or Sewall of Coventry - Person Page 90
		Rebecca Guild married Deacon Samuel Coney, son of Nathaniel Coney and Abigail Coney.
		Joseph Hale died on 16 April 1753 in Newbury at the age of 78.
		Judith Hale married Deacon Samuel Moody, son of Deacon William/3 Moody and Mehitable Sewell, on 17 December 1719.
	www.sewellgenealogy.com /p90.htm (1986 words)

	New England 1664-1744
		On March 27 Samuel Parris gave a sermon on witchcraft and warned that even some in their church might be devils.
		Samuel Willard defied a gag order by Governor Phips and published his condemnation of the trials at the end of September.
		Captain Samuel Vetch remained with a garrison of 450 men as the new governor.
	www.san.beck.org /11-7-NewEngland1664-1744.html (16544 words)

	AllRefer.com - Samuel Vetch (Canadian History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Samuel Vetch 1668–1732, British soldier and colonial administrator, b.
		He settled in Albany, N.Y., in 1699 and became a trader with the Native Americans.
		More articles from AllRefer Reference on Samuel Vetch
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/V/Vetch-Sa.html (180 words)

	Records of the Reformed Dutch Church of Albany, Part 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Samuel Pruin, y.m., and Maria Bogaard, y.d., both b.
		Samuel of Willem Jansse and Fytje Dirkse Van Vechten.
		Samuel, of Samuel Gardenier and Lena Dirkse By.
	aleph0.clarku.edu /~djoyce/gen/albany/part2.html (8023 words)

	Index
		Samuel Davies: Apostle of Dissent in Colonial Virginia, by Pilcher, rev., 96.
		Samuel Fels of Philadelphia, by Phalen, rev., 94.
		Samuel Vetch, Colonial Enterprise, by Waller, rev., 85.
	www.hsp.org /files/pmhb29.htm (2513 words)

	Thesis: Introduction
		After one of their number had been taken to Boston to be shown the Anglo-American metropolis, a party of four Mohawk ‘Indian Kings’ were escorted from Iroquoia to the court of Queen Anne.
		Their visit was planned and coordinated by three colonial officials, Francis Nicholson, Samuel Vetch and Peter Schuyler.
		Samuel Smith of Hadley, Massachusetts first used Red as an appellation for the Native American in 1699.
	www.geocities.com /jjewitt.geo/thesis.html (2203 words)

	vetch
		), also called spring vetch, is a purple- or pink-flowered climber native to Europe, where it is grown for fodder.
		Samuel Vetch - Vetch, Samuel, 1668–1732, British soldier and colonial administrator, b.
		tare - tare, name sometimes used as a synonym for any vetch, most frequently for the common vetch.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/sci/A0850777.html (325 words)

	BookRags: The Acadian Exiles : a Chronicle of the Land of Evangeline Summary
		A few days later Nicholson took away most of his troops and repaired to Boston, leaving a garrison of four hundred and fifty men and officers under the command of Colonel Samuel Vetch to hold the newly-won post until peace should return and Her Majesty’s pleasure concerning it be made known.
		He administered the oath of allegiance to the inhabitants of the banlieue—within three miles of the fort—according to the capitulation, and established a court to try their disputes.
		The soldiers had no proper clothing for the winter; they had not been paid for their services; the fort stood in need of repair; and the military chest was empty.
	www.bookrags.com /ebooks/6502/10.html (385 words)

	DESCENDENTS OF THE SCHUYLER FAMILY OF NEW YORK
		Representing the widow Rutgers was NY Attorney Gen, Benson, acting privately for his aunt, and unofficially for the state, to uphold the state's Trespass law (along with William Wilcox, John Lawrence and Robert Troup) [8890].
		Samuel F. Morse and Lucretia Walker; L. Saybrook, CT. She was a g-dau of Livingston Breese (?).
		Catharine Livingston (#11362.x3)), gs of Judge Samuel Breese and ____ Finley, g-gs of Rev Dr Samuel Finley and Ann Clarkson, gg-gs of Matthew Clarkson and Cornelia de Peyster, ggg-gs of Col Johannes de Peyster and Anna Bancker, gggg-gs of Gerrit Bancker and Elizabeth Van Eps.
	mlloyd.org /gen/lvngston/text/livingst.htm (11470 words)

	The Church of England in Nova Scotia and the Tory Clergy of the Revolution (1891)
		In 1613, Captain Samuel Argall, an Englishman, engaged in settling Virginia, came north and wantonly destroyed the little French colony at Mt. Desert, established by the Countess de Guercheville for converting the Indians, and the next year came farther on and tried to destroy Port Royal.
		All the New England governors were instructed to aid the undertaking, and accordingly four regiments were raised in New England--two in Massachusetts, one in Connecticut, and one in New Hampshire and Rhode Island.
		Nicholson was general, and Vetch adjutant-general of the whole expedition, and the colonels of these New England regiments were Sir Charles Hobby, Taylor of Massachusetts, Whiting of Connecticut, and Shadrach Walton of New Hampshire.
	anglicanhistory.org /canada/ns/eaton/01.html (3117 words)

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		Vetch joined the fleet of Sir Hovenden Walker, consisting of some sixty vessels which sailed from Boston in July.
		It was first refused by Governor Vetch on the ground that he was retiring from office and was acting only in the absence of Colonel Nicholson, who had been recently appointed governor.
		The inhabitants, it was said, wished to leave Nova Scotia and settle in Ile Royale, and 'they expect ships to convey themselves and effects accordingly.' Nicholson, who had now arrived as governor, took the position that he must refer the question to England for the consideration of Her Majesty.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext04/cca0910.txt (18802 words)

	Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center
		Vetch, although relatively new to the colonies, possessed a good knowledge of Canada, having been a merchant and, for want of a better word, a spy.
		In 1708, Vetch presented his plan for the invasion to the Queen, who gave her approval.
		Queen Anne died in 1714, and of her three colonials, Schuyler and Nicholson lived full and active public lives until their deaths in 1724 and 1728 respectively, while Vetch died in debtor's prison in 1732.
	www.pequotmuseum.org /Home/CrossPaths/CrossPathsFall2002/JohnSimonsEngravingsoftheFourKingsMoreThanMeetstheEye.htm (1599 words)

	WebRoots Library U.S. History
		Samuel Penhallow, a contemporary New England writer, notes the timely warning given on the eve of the Deerfield massacre by "Colonel Schuyler who was always a kind and faithful intelligencer."[*]
		He was charged with complicity in an illegal trade which was being carried on with the enemy, and which undoubtedly increased unnecessarily their power for offensive measures against the English.
		AFTER seven years of indecisive conflict, during which the colonists had been left largely to their own resources, the English government began to direct its attention more seriously to the North American situation.
	www.webroots.org /library/usahist/pa000003.html (13501 words)

	War again sends British troops into Acadian lands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Besieged as they were, the Acadians could not farm or hunt, and had to be supplied by the mother country.
		Vetch had put together the attacking force and made Nicholson its commander in chief.
		This time, the siege lasted a week, but Subercase did not have the men or materiel he needed.
	www.carencrohighschool.org /la_studies/ParishSeries/Acadie/QueenAnnesWar.htm (957 words)

	History
		And Samuel Vetch in 1710: “It would be of great advantage to the Crown if this measure were carried out with all possible speed and the deported families be replaced by good Protestant families from Great Britain…” (emphasis added, both quotes).
		As evidence of this concern, while the Treaty of 1713 provided that the Acadians were free to leave with their cattle and belongings, and some did, the British actually prevented many from doing so.
		In the words of Samuel Vetch: “Every one is now engaged in effort to leave Acadia.
	pages.prodigy.net /gydvo/webjbdp2c.htm (5746 words)

	Part 7: Guidelines for Identyfing, Evaluating and Registering America's Historic Battlefields, National Register of ...
		Drake, Samuel A. The Border Wars of New England.
		Drake, Samuel G. A Particular History of the Five Years French and Indian War in New England and Part Adjacent, 1744-1749.
		Griffith, Samuel B. In Defense of the Public Liberty: Britain, America, and the Struggle for Independence - From 1760 to the Surrender at Yorktown in 1781.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/publications/bulletins/nrb40/nrb40_7.htm (3149 words)

	TERRIOT ACADIAN FAMILY: Time-Line
		Vetch becomes governor, and the village is named Annapolis Royal in honor of England's Queen Anne.
		Governor Vetch writes a report advocating expulsion as the solution to what he regards as a hopeless political problem.
		Major Paul Mascarene --a Huguenot officer in the English garrison, later to become lieutenant governor of the colony is assigned the task of authorizing the election of four "deputies" from the major settlement areas to handle communications between the governors and the governed.
	www.terriau.org /timeline.htm (5587 words)

	Plant Image Gallery: Plant Details
		A trailing or climbing legume found on a variety of sites.
		Flowers and leaflets are greater in number than those of Narrow-leaved vetch, Vicia sativa.
		Eaten by livestock and browsed by white-tailed deer, turkey and other wildlife.
	www.noble.org /imagegallery/Forbhtml/HairyVetch.html (46 words)

	William Bayard
		The estate was confiscated and sold, but by marriage has again passed into the possession of a Bayard.
		Two of his four sons entered the British armyLieut.-Colonel John Bayard, and Major Samuel* Vetch Bayard.
		His third son, William, was the head of the leading mercantile house of New York in the early part of the present century, the firm being Bayard, Leroy & McEvers.
	www.famousamericans.net /williambayard (348 words)

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