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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British Empire (redirect from Agent General for Emigration)
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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Nathaniel Blakiston (category Colonial agents of the British Empire)
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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List of governors of dependent territories in the 20th century (redirect from List of colonial governors in 1901)
(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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