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Portersville (Alabama, United States) (search for this): entry dinwiddie-robert
Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): entry dinwiddie-robert
Scotland (United Kingdom) (search for this): entry dinwiddie-robert
Dinwiddie, Robert, 1690-1770
Colonial governor; born in Scotland about 1690.
While acting as clerk to a collector of customs in the West Indies he discovered and exposed enormous frauds practised by his principal, and was rewarded with the office of surveyor of the customs, and afterwards with that of lieutenant-governor of Virginia.
He arrived in the colony in 1752.
He was rapacious, and unscrupulous in the accumulation of wealth.
Owing to his exaction of enormous fees authorized by the board of trade for the issue of patents for lands, he gained the ill — will of the people of Virginia, and when he called for money to enable him to oppose the encroachments of the French, the House of Burgesses paid no attention to his expressed wishes.
Dinwiddie, unmindful of this conduct, enlisted a captain's command, and sent them to build a fort at the forks of the Ohio (now Pittsburg), and called on neighboring colonies for aid in the work.
He sent George Washington to the French com
Canada (Canada) (search for this): entry dinwiddie-robert
West Indies (search for this): entry dinwiddie-robert
Dinwiddie, Robert, 1690-1770
Colonial governor; born in Scotland about 1690.
While acting as clerk to a collector of customs in the West Indies he discovered and exposed enormous frauds practised by his principal, and was rewarded with the office of surveyor of the customs, and afterwards with that of lieutenant-governor of Virginia.
He arrived in the colony in 1752.
He was rapacious, and unscrupulous in the accumulation of wealth.
Owing to his exaction of enormous fees authorized by the board of trade for the issue of patents for lands, he gained the ill — will of the people of Virginia, and when he called for money to enable him to oppose the encroachments of the French, the House of Burgesses paid no attention to his expressed wishes.
Dinwiddie, unmindful of this conduct, enlisted a captain's command, and sent them to build a fort at the forks of the Ohio (now Pittsburg), and called on neighboring colonies for aid in the work.
He sent George Washington to the French co
North Carolina (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): entry dinwiddie-robert
Duquesne (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): entry dinwiddie-robert
South Carolina (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): entry dinwiddie-robert
Montreal (Canada) (search for this): entry dinwiddie-robert
Clifton (United Kingdom) (search for this): entry dinwiddie-robert