Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Halifax” in chapter 16 of George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition.:

...ng beneficial employments on strangers alone, to the great discouragement of the people of the plantations. Influenced by a most favorable opinion of Colden's zeal for the rights of the crown, Lord Halifax conferred on him the vacant post of lieutenantgov-ernor of New York. In the neighboring province of New Jersey, Francis Bernard, as its governor, a royalist, selected for office by Halifax, had...
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Entity Corpus Doc Corpus Doc  
Halifax (Canada) 1,488 152 54 0 0 user votes
Halifax (Massachusetts, United States) 252 2 0 0 0 user votes
Halifax (United Kingdom) 127 38 3 0 0 user votes
Halifax (Georgia, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Halifax (Kentucky, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Halifax (Missouri, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Halifax (Nevada, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Halifax (Pennsylvania, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Halifax (Queensland, Australia) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Halifax (Vermont, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes

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