Jonathan Belcher
Jonathan Belcher (8 January 1681/8231 August 1757) was a merchant, politician, and slave trader from colonial Massachusetts who served as both governor of Massachusetts Bay and governor of New Hampshire from 1730 to 1741 and governor of New Jersey from 1747 to 1757.Born into a wealthy Massachusetts merchant family (his father Andrew Belcher was a tavern owner in Cambridge and grandfather who immigrated to Massachusetts Bay from England), Belcher attended Harvard College and then entered into the family business and local politics. He was instrumental in promoting Samuel Shute as governor of Massachusetts in 1715, and sat on the colony's council, but became disenchanted with Shute over time and eventually joined the populist faction of Elisha Cooke Jr.
After the sudden death of Governor William Burnet in 1729 Belcher successfully acquired the governorships of Massachusetts and New Hampshire. During his tenure, Belcher politically marginalized those who he perceived as opposition and made many powerful enemies in both provinces. In a long-running border dispute between Massachusetts and New Hampshire, Belcher sided with Massachusetts interests despite openly proclaiming neutrality in the matter. It was later discovered that he allowed illegal logging on Crown lands by political allies. His opponents, led by William Shirley and Samuel Waldo, eventually convinced the Board of Trade to replace Belcher (with Shirley in Massachusetts and Benning Wentworth in New Hampshire), and the border dispute was resolved in New Hampshire's favor.
Belcher was appointed governor of New Jersey in 1747 with support from its Quaker community. He unsuccessfully attempted to mediate the partisan conflicts between New Jersey's Quakers and wealthy landowners, and promoted the establishment of the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University. Through most of his tenure as royal governor, Belcher was ill with a progressive nervous disorder, and died in office in 1757. Belchertown, Massachusetts, is named for him. Provided by Wikipedia
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At a conference held at Deerfield in the county of Hampshire, the twenty seventh day of August, anno regni Regis Georgij Secundi, Magnae, Britanniae, Franciae et Hiberniae, &c. non...
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To His Excellency Jonathan Belcher, Esq ; captain general, and governor in chief of the province of Nova-Caesarea, or New-Jersey, chancellor, and vice-admiral in the same. : an add...
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By His Excellency Jonathan Belcher, Esq ; ... A proclamation. : Whereas a treaty of peace, union, friendship & mutual defence between the crowns of Great Britain, France & Spain wa...
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By His Excellency Jonathan Belcher, Esq ; ... A proclamation. : Whereas His Majesty for further preventing the destruction of his woods in America ... Given at the Council chamber...
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By His Excellency Jonathan Belcher, Esq ; ... A proclamation to prevent the destruction or spoil of His Majesty's woods. : ... Given at the Council chamber in Roxbury the eighth da...
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By His Excellency Jonathan Belcher Esq ; ... A proclamation. : Whereas at a council holden at the court at Kensington, on the tenth day of August 1732. Upon application made to His...
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By His Excellency Jonathan Belcher, Esq ; ... A proclamation for a publick fast. : ... Thursday the twenty-seventh day of March next ... Given at the Council chamber in Boston, the...
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By His Excellency Jonathan Belcher, Esq ; ... A proclamation for a general fast. : ... Thursday the first day of April next ... Given at the Council chamber in Boston, the twenty-s...
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By His Excellency Jonathan Belcher, Esq ; ... A proclamation. : Whereas a scheme for emitting bills or notes by John Colman, Esq ; and others, was laid before the Great and General...
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Appendix (A). To the King's most Excellent Majesty in Council. : We your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects the representatives of your Majesty's province of New-Hampshire i...
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By His Excellency Jonathan Belcher, Esq ... A proclamation. : Whereas His Most Gracious Majesty, for the maintaining and securing his rights and possessions of his crown, and subje...
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By His Excellency Jonathan Belcher, Esq ... A proclamation. : Whereas the establishment of peace and friendship between His Majesty's subjects, and the Shawanese and Delaware India...
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By His Excellency Jonathan Belcher, Esq ... A proclamation. : Whereas the tribe of Indians distinguished by the name of the Delawares, contrary to the most solemn treaties, associa...
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By His Excellency Jonathan Belcher, Esq ; ... A proclamation. : Whereas on the twenty-fifth day of March last ... the lieutenant governour ... issued a proclamation for discovering...
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By His Excellency Jonathan Belcher, Esq ; ... A proclamation. : Whereas Her Majesty ... has been graciously pleased by an additional instruction to me directed ... that ... where t...
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Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, by His Excellency the governour, a brief : Having lately received from the Honourable William Bull, Esq; ... a particular account of the desolati...
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By His Excellency Jonathan Belcher, Esq, ... A proclamation for a publick thanksgiving : ... Thursday the twelfth of November next ... Given at the Council chamber in Roxbury the f...
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By His Excellency Jonathan Belcher Esq; ... A proclamation for a publick thanksgiving : ... Thursday the seventeenth day of November next ... Given at the Council chamber in Salisb...
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By His Excellency Jonathan Belcher, Esq; ... A proclamation for a publick thanksgiving : ... Thursday the twenty-sixth of October next ... Given at the Council chamber in Boston th...
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By His Excellency Jonathan Belcher, Esq; ... A proclamation for a publick thanksgiving : ... Thursday the twenty-second of November next ... Given at the Council chamber in Boston,...
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