Sentence examples for colonial agents from inspiring English sources

When faced with the menu, listing agents untutored in architecture nearly always choose "colonial," agents and housing specialists said.

Instructions that particularly galled Samuel Adams included one restricting the meetings of the governor's council, and another limiting the appointment of colonial agents to individuals having the governor's approval.

Bradstreet's brother-in-law Joseph Dudley, who had served as one of the colonial agents, was commissioned by James as President of the Council for New England in 1685 by King James II, and took control of the colony in May 1686.

Colonial agents lobbied to select either Wait Winthrop or Joseph Dudley, both native sons, to replace Phips, but the king, wanting someone who would better represent crown authority, selected Bellomont.

This was treated as evidence that he was hostile to the present order of the colony, and working against his commission as colonial agent.

Near Womelsdorf was the homestead of Johann Conrad Weiser, a colonial agent to the Iroquois Indians.

He spent the years 1715 to 1726 (except for a trip home in 1720 21) in England, part of the time as colonial agent.

After he was admitted to the bar in 1695, he returned to Virginia but two years later was again in London as colonial agent.

Hughes was neither the first nor the last African-American visitor to be treated as a colonial agent dispatched, as he put it, "to help carry out the white man's laws".

In England the colonial secretary, Lord Dartmouth, insisted to colonial agent Benjamin Franklin that the Massachusetts assembly retract its response.

Franklin, as colonial agent, was forced to listen to a barrage of criticism, and was dismissed as colonial postmaster general.