• A colonial agent was the official representative of a British colony based in London during the British Empire. The role evolved during the seventeenth...
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    in 1847. The colors indicate the race of each agent or governor. Status   Denotes Acting Colonial Agent Symbols † Died in office [A] Became the first...
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    painted during his lengthy residence in London when he was acting as colonial agent for Pennsylvania, Georgia, New Jersey, and Massachusetts. The work was...
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  • Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, owner of lands in New England, and colonial agent of Connecticut. Jackson was called to the bar in 1744; he became a bencher...
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    which first proposed it, as utterly impracticable. Jared Ingersoll Sr., colonial agent for Connecticut, wrote to his American colleague, the Royal Governor...
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    18th centuries with the Netherlands and France left Britain the dominant colonial power in North America. Britain became a major power in the Indian subcontinent...
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    Sapeto (1811 – 24 August 1895) was an Italian priest, linguist, and colonial agent as well as a member of the Order of San Lazaro who traveled the shores...
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  • – April 3, 1849) was an African American who was one of the first colonial agents of the American Colonization Society in what later became Liberia....
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  • 'who/which acts') may refer to: Factor (agent), a person who acts for, notably a mercantile and colonial agent Factor (Scotland), a person or firm managing...
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    the House of Burgesses's colonial agent in London during the 1720's. His life reflected aspects of both the British colonial gentry and an emerging American...
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    Charles Pinckney (South Carolina chief justice) (category People from colonial South Carolina)
    (August 13, 1699 – July 12, 1758) was a South Carolina politician and colonial agent. He was also the father of two candidates for Vice-President and President...
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    The colonial history of the United States covers the period of European colonization of North America from the late 15th century until the unifying of...
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    William Samuel Johnson (category Colonial agents of the British Empire)
    Connecticut's Royal Charter of 1662. Johnson agreed to become a special Colonial Agent to fight the case. Johnson left his family, his political career, and...
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  • both English and Xhosa. This education helped Skelewu become a key colonial agent, translating regulations for the Xhosa-speaking communities. In the...
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    of prominent men in Liberia. Lewis was the daughter of former vice colonial agent Colston Waring, the sister of the first First Lady of the Republic,...
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    serve, as their colonial agent, in London in appreciation for his services, in Monserrat. Later, from 1706 onwards, Blakiston was agent, for the Virginia...
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    assisted colonial officials in parleying with native forces at war with government troops. Agents also collected intelligence for the colonial officials;...
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    Benjamin Franklin (category Colonial agents of the British Empire)
    community affairs and colonial and state politics, as well as national and international affairs. He became a hero in America when, as an agent in London for...
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    the Colonial Agent. The position was appointed by the British Secretary of State for the Colonies to work within the Office of the Crown Agents for the...
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    Benjamin Franklin, a colonial agent in London, lobbied for repeal of the act over the next several years, as did other agents. The act arose when Virginia...
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  • the governors, agents, and presidents of colonial Madras, initially of the English East India Company, up to the end of British colonial rule in 1947....
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  • intellect.' Azar Nafisi is the personification of that native informer and colonial agent, polishing her services for an American version of the very same project...
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    Bowhay in the parish of Exminster, near Exeter, Devon, was an English colonial agent of the Honourable East India Company, who served as the first President...
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  • The Colonial Parkway murders were the serial murders of at least ten people in the U.S. state of Virginia between 1986 and 1989. The killings were associated...
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  • royalcollection.org.uk. Retrieved 2017-11-15. "Sir Stamford Raffles | British colonial agent". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2017-11-15. "Eilandgids Caribisch...
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    Jehudi Ashmun (category Agents and governors of Liberia)
    Negro History (1953) Ralph Randolph Gurley, Life of Jehudi Ashmun, Late Colonial Agent in Liberia, Boston: J. C. Dunn, 1835  Johnson, Rossiter, ed. (1906)...
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  • (1973–1974) Tom Critchley, High commissioner (1974–1975) Belgium Belgian colonial empire Monarchs Prime ministers Belgian Congo Governors general Théophile...
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    Michigan. On June 4, 1671, Simon-François Daumont de Saint-Lusson, a colonial agent, was dispatched from Quebec to the distant tribes, proposing a congress...
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  • colonization of the Philippines. Focusing on how British and American colonial agents and dispatched military officials transplanted overseas counterinsurgency...
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  • the comprador class became critical agents of global capitalism. By serving as so-called ‘Middlemen’ in the colonial enterprise, this new distinct bourgeoisie...
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