biography
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| lived:
| (1655–1728)
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| biography:
| Colonial governor, born in Yorkshire, N England, UK. He had a broad, far-ranging career, as governor or lieutenant-governor of five colonial areas (New York, Virginia, Maryland, Nova Scotia, South Carolina) during 1688–1722. He supported the founding of the College of William and Mary and directed the conquest of Port Royal (1710), which established British supremacy in Nova Scotia. |
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