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Copy of a Letter of General Wentworth to Governor Belcher, Concerning Military Recruits
Author: Letter from Governor Wentworth to George Germain (No. 101) Requesting Military Assistance in Order to Enable Him to Return to New Hampshire
Author: 1727-1765
Author: John Gorham PalfreyPublisher:
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Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 686
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Jonathan Belcher
Author: Michael C. BatinskiPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813162025
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 231
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As early as the eighteenth century, New England's ministers were decrying public morality. Evangelical leaders such as Jonathan Edwards called for rulers to become spiritual as well as political leaders who would renew the people's covenant with God. The prosperous merchant Jonathan Belcher (1682-1757) self-consciously strove to become such a leader, an American Nehemiah. As governor of three royal colonies and early patron of the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University), Belcher became an important but controversial figure in colonial America. In this first biography of the colonial governor, Michael C. Batinski depicts a man unusually riddled with contradictions. While governor of Massachusetts, Belcher deftly maneuvered longstanding rivals toward a political settlement; yet as chief executive of New Hampshire, he plunged into bitter factional disputes that destroyed his administration. The quintessential Puritan, Belcher learned to thrive in London's cosmopolitan world and in the whiggish realm of the marketplace. He was at once the courtier and the country patriot. An insightful blend of social and political history, this biography demands that Belcher be recognized as the embodiment of the Nehemiah, perhaps as important in his own realm as Cotton Mather was in religious circles. Grappling with the contradictions of Belcher's actions, the author explains much about the complexities of the world in which Belcher lived and wielded influence.
A Compendious History of New England
Author: John Gorham PalfreyPublisher:
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Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 682
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Progress under the Hanoverian Kings
Author: John Gorham PalfreyPublisher:
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Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 688
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The Lord Lansdown's Speech Against the Occasional Conformity Bill
Author: George Granville Baron LansdownePublisher:
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Category : Claims against decedents' estates
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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American Prisoners of the Revolution
Author: Danske DandridgePublisher: IndyPublish.com
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 762
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The Doolittle Family in America
Author: William Frederick DoolittlePublisher: Franklin Classics Trade Press
ISBN: 9780344989230
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Languages : en
Pages : 102
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Sherman Genealogy Including Families of Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk, England
Author: Thomas Townsend ShermanPublisher: New York : T.A. Wright
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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