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......1705 [From this time the office became a pensionary sinecure, the governor residing in England, and out of a salary of £ 2,000 paid his deputy, the actual governor, £ 800.] Affairs of the colony managed by the council, Edward Jennings president......1705-10 Edward Nott dies in office......August, 1706 Robert Hunter appointed lieutenantgovernor, but is captured on the voyage by the French......1708 Col. Alexander Spotswood arrives in Virginia as lieutenant-governor......June, 1710 Governor Spotswood explores the country west as far as the Shenandoah Valley, crossing the Blue Ridge; the expedition occupies six weeks......August–September, 1716 Governor Spotswood sends Lieutenant Maynard of the British navy with two small vessels into Pamlico Bay in pursuit of the pirate John Teach, or Blackbeard ......Nov. 21, 1718 [Maynard sailed back with the head of the pirate chief as a trophy. Thirteen captured pirates hanged at Williamsburg.] Governor Spotswood eff