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American Colonial Governors This project is designed to capture pre-statehood Governors of entities that eventually became American States and to be a portal to the individual pre-statehood projects. Colonial governors should be added to both this project and to the individual pre-statehood projects. Territorial Governors are included in a separate Geni project: Governors of the states after...
Colonial officials other than Governors. Includes Deputy Governors, Assembly and Council members, etc. An official is someone who holds an office (function or mandate, regardless of whether it carries an actual working space with it) in an organization or government and participates in the exercise of authority (either their own or that of their superior or employer, public or legally private...
No taxation without representation! The Boston Tea Party , an iconic event along the road toward the American Revolution, was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts against the tax policy of the British government and the East India Company which controlled all the tea imported to the colonies. Officals in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Bri...
Colonial Governors of Connecticut The territory of the United States state of Connecticut was first settled by Europeans in the 1620s, when Dutch traders established trading posts on the Connecticut River. English settlers, mainly Puritans fleeing repression in England, began to arrive in the 1630s, and a number of separate colonies were established. The first was the Saybrook Colony in 1635, b...
Prior to being admitted to the union, New York had many colonial governors through its history. Dutch Period - Province of New Netherland 1621-1624 : Adrian Jorisszen Tienpoint 1624-1625 : Cornelius Jacobsen May 1625-1626 : Willem Verhulst 1626-1631 : Peter Minuit 1632-1633 : Bastiaen Jansz Krol 1633-1638 : Wouter van Twiller 1638-1647 : Willem Kieft 1647-1664 : ...
Colonial Governors of Maryland This project collects Maryland governors prior to declaring independence in 1776. Governors of Maryland after 1776 should be added to Maryland Governors . Proprietary governors 1 Leonard Calvert 2 Thomas Greene 3 William Stone 4 Rev. Robert Brooke Sr. 5 William Stone
This project collects New Jersey governors prior to declaring independence in 1776. Governors of New Jersey after 1776 should be added to New Jersey Governors . Directors of New Netherland (1624-64) Cornelius Jacobsen May Willem Verhulst Peter Minuit Sebastiaen Jansen Krol Wouter van Twiller Willem Kieft Peter Stuyvesant Governors of New Sweden (1638-55) Peter Minuit
It happened at dawn, April 14, 1772 in Weare, New Hampshire. Twenty-forty men, faces blackened with soot, entered the room of sheriff Benjamin Whiting at the Pine Tree Inn and assaulted him and his deputy, John Quigly, with switches cut from trees. Their horses had their ears cut off, their tails and manes shaved. Whiting and Quigly were forced to ride out of town through a gauntlet of jeering ...