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He probably was not present when the Governor called the Burgesses to the council chamber May 31, scolded them mildly for their failure to act, and then prorogued them.
Washington Richard Harwell 1968
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He probably was not present when the Governor called the Burgesses to the council chamber May 31, scolded them mildly for their failure to act, and then prorogued them.
Washington Richard Harwell 1968
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He probably was not present when the Governor called the Burgesses to the council chamber May 31, scolded them mildly for their failure to act, and then prorogued them.
Washington Richard Harwell 1968
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He probably was not present when the Governor called the Burgesses to the council chamber May 31, scolded them mildly for their failure to act, and then prorogued them.
Washington Richard Harwell 1968
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Since the Burgesses were the representatives of the common people, it might naturally be inferred that the rich planters would be excluded from any share in the government.
Patrician and Plebeian Or The Origin and Development of the Social Classes of the Old Dominion Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker 1922
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Sheriff Glenn Ross said last week that to his knowledge, the Burgesses are the first married couple employed by the Penobscot County Sheriff's Department to receive annual awards during the same year.
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Sharpe and new North Carolina governor Arthur Dobbs were also in town, huddled with Dinwiddie, while the Burgesses voted £20,000, added to the £10,000 Dobbs had carried from London.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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At the same time, Good and his Council made another grant of Ohio lands to the Loyal Company, whose investors included John Robinson, speaker of the House of Burgesses.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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The Burgesses granted £10,000 but established a committee of fourteen “leading men” who would “direct and appoint how the said money shall be applied.”
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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Dinwiddie reported on April 15 that there were Cherokees in Williamsburg negotiating an alliance, but the Burgesses were so “tedious in their consultations” that he doubted he could get more than forty or fifty to join Washington.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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