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Example sentences for "deputy governor"

  • After Dale's departure Captain George Yardley, who acted as deputy governor for a year, was not so exacting.

  • Argall, though in a subordinate capacity he had been very useful to the settlers, proved wholly unscrupulous as deputy governor.

  • Captain Yeardley, deputy governor, lived here for the most part.

  • Then Penn appointed his cousin, Markham, to be deputy governor, with two assistants.

  • The man who was now acting as deputy governor of Pennsylvania was proving a poor makeshift, and conditions in the province seemed to be going from bad to worse.

  • Deputy Governor Dudley to the Countess of Lincoln, declaring in 1630 that no such Church innovations as had been alleged had taken place at Massachusetts Bay?

  • In this fleet came Governor Winthrop, Deputy Governor Dudley, and several other gentlemen of wealth and quality.

  • But when Governor Henderson Walker died, Sir Nathaniel Johnson, then Governor of North and South Carolina, sent Major Robert Daniel from South Carolina to take Walker's place as Deputy Governor of the Northern Colony.

  • Cary returned at this juncture and demanded to be reinstated as Deputy Governor; and Porter and other former supporters of Glover now went to his side.

  • The charter vested the government in the governor, deputy governor, assistants, and freemen of the company but not more than twelve of the colonists were legally eligible to membership in the general court.

  • The administration was placed in the hands of a governor, deputy governor, and eighteen assistants, who were to be elected annually by the freemen or members of the corporation.

  • They are in the handwriting of William Jones, a Deputy Governor of Connecticut and a member of the court at some of the trials.

  • John Davenport, one of the founders of New Haven, and Roger Ludlow, Deputy Governor of Massachusetts and Connecticut.

  • Gates remained De La Warr's deputy governor, but Sir Thomas Dale went as Marshal of Virginia.

  • So away he, too, went and for seven years until his death ruled from that distance through a deputy governor.

  • But in England, what was known as the "court party" in the Company managed to have chosen instead for De La Warr's deputy governor, Captain Samuel Argall.

  • That the freemen have authority to choose annually a governor, deputy governor, assistants, representatives, and all other officers.

  • The executive, as in the other colonies of New England, consisted of a governor, deputy governor, and assistants.

  • The legislative power was vested in an assembly to consist of the governor, deputy governor, the assistants, and such of the freemen as should be chosen by the towns.

  • This was another attack upon their liberties and involved nothing less than an attempt to change their charter rights by secret instructions to a deputy governor which he must obey at his peril.

  • Though, by the charter, proprietor of the province, he usually remained in England and appointed a deputy governor to exercise authority in the colony.


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