Word: governor
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...address, Pietas et Gratulatio, was issued from the College on the occasion of the death of George II. and the accession to the throne of George III. Governor Bernard, the loyalist, laid the corner-stone of Harvard Hall in 1764, and, until 1769, the College was outwardly, at least, thoroughly loyal...
...House of Representatives, having complained of being intimidated by the British troops in Boston, was prorogued to Cambridge by Governor Bernard, May 1769, and took up their quarters in the College halls, without even taking the trouble to ask leave of the Corporation. But the most friendly relations existed between the two, and the House of Representatives dined with the Corporation at the next Commencement...
Cambridge, or Newtown, was settled in 1631. "About this time, Chicketawbu, the Chief of the Indians in the neighborhood, visited the governor with high professions of friendship, which rendered him less solicitous for a fortified town." An historian from England says: "Newtown was at first intended for a city, but was thought not so fit, being too far from the sea. The inhabitants are most of them very rich." Here we have our first picture of the affluent primeval Portchuck...
That a list of those students who wish to join be opened at the Gymnasium, and when a sufficient number have entered to justify the movement, that the license of the Governor of Massachusetts be applied for, to be followed by a requisition for State arms; about which there will be no difficulty, as I understand the organization will be both sanctioned and encouraged by the highest authority in the University...
...which are related in the guide-book), my feelings make ample amends for the defection of my red-coated ancestor. My enthusiasm for everything revolutionary or colonial is something extraordinary. I know the stories and gossip about those stately old houses that were the residences of the governor "in the good old colony times." I know how the "Indian lover" used to leave off "wooing his dusky mate" and fire bullets through his Excellency's parlor windows; and how, in a later and more peaceful period, the high-heeled and powdered bevy of colonial beauties, whose memory Copley has perpetuated...