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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) | 41 | 1 | Browse | Search |
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition. | 36 | 0 | Browse | Search |
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Fletcher, Benjamin
Colonial governor; was a soldier of fortune; received the appointment of governor of New York from William and Mary in itories; and made his first visit to Philadelphia in April, 1693.
Fletcher was a colonel in the British army.
Possessed of violent passions, ad, when Wadsworth ordered the drums to be beaten.
Silence!
said Fletcher, angrily.
When the reading was again begun, Drum!
Drum!
cried Wadsworth.
Silence!
again shouted Fletcher, and threatened the captain with punishment.
Wadsworth stepped in front of the governor, and, wit d to New York.
With a pretended zeal for the cause of religion, Fletcher procured the passage of an act by the Assembly for building church ds upon the ground where the first structure was erected.
During Fletcher's administration, pirates infested American waters; and he was acc f Massachusetts, he was commissioned to investigate the conduct of Fletcher and to succeed him as governor, and he sent him to England under a
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