In consequence, the duke of Albemarle and five others acquired a grant of the islands from Charles II in 1670, and they accepted nominal responsibility for the civil government.
Not long after, the company acquired a grant of land on Massachusetts Bay from the Plymouth Council for New England, and sent John Endecott with a small group of settlers to begin the process of establishing a colony at a place now called Salem, Massachusetts.
The Cherokee's aboriginal title to the lands in question had been extinguished by the Treaty of Holston (1791), and the plaintiff seeking ejectment had acquired a state land grant from North Carolina that same year; the defendant held a state land grant from Tennessee issued in 1809.
Kinsella acquired a series of grants and scholarships that allowed him to attend University College in Dublin, where he studied physics and chemistry before receiving a degree in public administration.
First styled the New England Company, it was renamed the Massachusetts Bay Company in 1629 after it acquired a royal charter, granting it permission to govern the territory.
In 1628 some of the investors in that effort joined with new investors to acquire a land grant for the territory roughly between the Charles and Merrimack Rivers.
By 1743, Beverley sought to acquire a land grant of 20000 acres in the Northern Neck Proprietary on the Shenandoah and the South Branch Potomac rivers from Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron.
With Stan's support and encouragement (not to mention a hefty grant from Carnegie Mellon) Og acquired a new perm, a double-weave linen sport coat, and an industrial-strength bottle of Acqua Di Gio for Men.
Last year, through a grant from Organic Gardening magazine, the garden acquired a 1,000-gallon 1,000-gallonmakes watankcollection easier.
As early as 1939, having just acquired an agent, a Rockefeller grant, and a career path, Tennessee Williams vowed to write plays that were "a picture of my own heart".
In 1861 Vienna was granted city self-government through a freely elected city council, which acquired a liberal majority.
