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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) | 6 | 2 | Browse | Search |
the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Agreement of the people, (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Government, instrument of. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Lane , Sir Ralph 1530 -1604 (search)
Lane, Sir Ralph 1530-1604
Colonial governor: born in Northamptonshire, England, about 1530; was son of Sir Ralph Lane, and Maud, daughter of Lord Parr, uncle of Catharine Parr, one of the queens of Henry VIII.
He was equerry in the Court of Queen Elizabeth; commanded troops in Ireland, first in 1569, and again in 1583-84; and was sent from England with Sir Richard Granville, by Sir Walter Raleigh, to be governor of Virginia, in 1585.
After his return from Virginia he was colonel in the expedition of Norris and Drake against Portugal in 1589, and in 1591 was mustermaster-general in Ireland.
He was knighted by the lord-deputy in 1593.
Lane's administration as governor of Virginia was fruitless of any good.
By following the example of Grenville he exasperated the Indians.
Had he been kind and wise the colony might have prospered; but he and his followers were greedy for gold, and only Harriott, the historian, acted like a sensible Christian.
Lane had the gold fever severely,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Stone , William 1603 -1695 (search)
Stone, William 1603-1695
Colonial governor; born in Northamptonshire, England, about 1603; settled in Virginia.
Later he arranged with the second Lord Baltimore, Cecil Calvert, to place in Maryland 500 Puritan colonists who claimed to have been ill-treated by the Episcopalians in Virginia.
He was governor of Lord Baltimore's province in 1648-53.
In recognition of his services to the proprietary he was given as much land as he could ride around in a day. He died in Charles county, Md., about 1695.
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 3 : the third and fourth generation (search)
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 15 : ecclesiastical History. (search)
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Genealogical Register (search)
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, S. (search)
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 22 : (search)
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 8 : (search)