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…Act Congress, Lord Hillsborough, the British colonial secretary, instructed the colonial governors in America to dissolve the assemblies if they responded to the Massachusetts Circular Letter. He also directed Massachusetts Governor Francis Bernard to have the Massachusetts House rescind the...
Francis Bernard may refet to: Francis Bernard (lawyer) (16631731), Solicitor- General for Ireland and Irish MP for Clonakilty, Bandonbridge; Sir Francis ...
Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet (bapt. 12 July 1712 16 June 1779) was a ...
As governor of colonial Massachusetts between 1760 and 1769, Francis Bernard was charged with shoring up British imperialism during the first period of sustained American opposition to the authority of the King-in-Parliament. The documentary record of the middle years (1766 and 1767) of Bernard’s tr...
Author
Francis Bernard
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
570
Publisher
Colonial Society of Massachusetts
ISBN #
0985254319
EAN Code
9780985254315
ISBN #
9
The second volume of The Papers of Francis Bernard records the reaction of the royal governor of colonial Massachusetts to the tumultuous events surrounding the passage of the Stamp Act in 1765. Because the response to the new legislation in Boston set the pattern for the reaction of all the other ...
Author
Francis Bernard
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
616
Publisher
Colonial Society of Massachusetts
ISBN #
0979466296
EAN Code
9780979466298
ISBN #
7
This letter, written by the British governor of Massachusetts, Francis Bernard, describes the August 1765 Stamp Act Riot in Boston. This riot was one of the first major outbreaks of violent opposition to imperial taxes in the British North American colonies. Boston and other major American seaports,...
Author
Francis Bernard
Binding
Kindle Edition
ISBN #
5
Francis Bernard was the Royal Governor of New Jersey and Massachusetts between 1760 and 1771. This book examines his relations with colonial factions and the imperial elite and seeks to show how he undermined British-colonial relations on the eve of the revolution.
Author
Colin Nicolson
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
320
Publisher
Northeastern
ISBN #
1555534635
EAN Code
9781555534639
ISBN #
4
Governor Francis Bernard's historical reputation rests on his role in pushing the American colonists toward revolution. Bernard was the kind of government official without whom revolutions might not occur: A thwarted modernizer, despairing of metropolitan inertia and resentful of local power shifts ...
Author
Francis Bernard
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
600
Publisher
Colonial Society of Massachusetts
ISBN #
0985254343
EAN Code
9780985254346
ISBN #
1
Author
Francis Bernard
ISBN #
0306719096
Author
Francis Bernard
ISBN #
2225801010