New Hampshire documents in the British Archives, 1620-1775.
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Wentworth, Benning, 1696-1770
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Governor of New Hampshire, 1741-1767. From the description of Instructions, 1741 Sept. 10. (Portsmouth Athenaeum Library & Museum). WorldCat record id: 70926277 Governor of New Hampshire. From the description of Letter, 1749 April 15, Portsmouth, to the New Hampshire General Assembly. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 174141871 Colonial governor and legislator of New Hampshire. From the description of Instructions of Benning Wentwor...
Belcher, Jonathan, 1682-1757
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Jonathan Belcher was born on January 8, in 1681 or 1682, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the son of Andrew and Sarah Belcher. In 1746, upon hearing about Governor of New Jersey Lewis Morris's poor health, Belcher actively pursued the opportunity for another royal appointment. Although the Morris Family nominated the former governor's son, Robert Hunter Morris, the alliance of Quakers in New Jersey and London cultivated by Belcher and his brother-in-law, Richard Partridge, managed to obtain the appo...
New Hampshire. Governor (1741-1766 : Wentworth)
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First royal governor of the newly independent province of New Hampshire. From the description of Letters : Portsmouth, [N.H.], to John Thomlinson, London, [Eng.], 1742-1754. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 38943223 ...
Great Britain. Board of Trade
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Founded in 1784. Responsibile for the merchant fleet 1854-1939. Absorbed by the Dept. of Trade and Industry in 1970, but continues as a legal presence. From the description of Certificate of competency as master 1876. (The Mariners' Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 45671728 In 1851 it became compulsory for the masters and mates of foreign-going British merchant ships to hold the appropriate government licence, issued through the newly-created marine section of the Board ...
Massachusetts. Governor (1730-1741 : Belcher)
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In 1737 George II appointed a commission to settle the boundary conflict between Massachusetts Bay and New Hampshire. Both sides appealed the commission's decision to the King, who settled the matter in an order in council issued Apr. 9, 1740. The order affirmed the commission's determination of the eastern boundary and established the southern boundary. Belcher, then governor of both provinces, took Massachusetts' side in the controversy. From the descriptio...
