Governor Dinwiddie received orders from the British government to warn the French of British claims, and sent Major Washington in late 1753 to deliver a letter informing the French of those claims and asking them to leave.

In a letter to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota also protested Olson's being allowed to return to Minnesota.

* 1692 – The Salem witch trials are ended by a letter from Massachusetts Governor William Phips.

* October 10 – Taiwan Governor Hsieh Tung-ming is injured by a letter bomb from a pro-independence activist.

In 1827, Virginia Governor William B. Giles released a letter from Jefferson meant to be kept private to Thomas Ritchie's Richmond Enquirer.

" In 1883, Governor Grover Cleveland drafted legislation authorizing acquisition of lands for a state reservation at Niagara and The Niagara Falls Association, a private citizens group founded in 1882, mounted a great letter writing campaign and petition drive in support of the park.

On the same day the letter was written, the three party leaders held a joint press conference at which they expressed their intent to co-operate on changing parliamentary rules, and to request that the Governor General consult with them before deciding to call an election.

" However, at the time, Harper and the two other opposition leaders denied trying to form a coalition government, despite the letter written to the Governor General.

In 1615 Jacob le Maire carried a letter from his father to be presented to Governor Reynst, with an offer to carry ( smuggle ) goods to his son-in-law Samuel Blommaert in Amsterdam.

In 1536, ostensibly in response to a letter asking for aid from Andrés de Cereceda, then acting Governor of the Province of Honduras, Alvarado and his army of Indian allies arrived in Honduras, just as the Spanish colonists were preparing to abandon the country and go look for gold in Peru.

He also ordered Massachusetts Governor Francis Bernard to direct the Massachusetts House to rescind the letter.

The arrival was documented in a letter dated April 6, 1764 from Governor D ' Abbadie to his superior in France.

The town peaceably petitioned for separation from the town because of its relatively long distance from the rest of Hatfield, and was officially incorporated in 1771, named by Governor Thomas Hutchinson for Thomas Whately, a Member of Parliament whose letter to Hutchinson would later be involved in the controversy which brought on Hutchinson's dismissal.

It is probable that in December 1753, George Washington, accompanied by Christopher Gist, pushed his way across Fox Chapel land as he came south from Fort Le Boeuf where he had delivered a letter to the French commander, ordering him, in the name of the Governor of Virginia, to return to Canada.

As she called for the election of Governor Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts and then U. S. Senator Lloyd M. Bentsen of Texas as President and Vice President of the United States, Richards read a letter from an unnamed young mother in Lorena who described herself as " forgotten " by the national leadership.

In a later letter to Lieutenant Governor Dinwiddie, Washington said: " The men I hired to bring intelligence from the South Branch returned last night with letters from Captain Ashby and other parties there.

Before the lordship of the Island was purchased by the British Crown in 1765 ( the Revestment ), the assent of the Lord of Mann to a Bill was signified by letter to the Governor.

After 1765, the Royal Assent was at first signified by letter from the Secretary of State to the Governor, but during the Regency the practice began of granting Royal Assent by Order in Council, which continues to this day, though limited to exceptional cases since 1981.

He also dispatched a letter to former Michigan Governor, Secretary of War, Lewis Cass, appealing for federal intervention.

Nevertheless, Hanna wrote in a letter that " I do not consider that Governor McKinley was placed in any false position by what was done ...

Almost two years later, in September 1615, and as James was in the process of replacing Carr with new favourite George Villiers, the Governor of the Tower sent a letter to the King, informing him that one of the warders had been bringing the prisoner " poisoned food and medicine.

On the same day the letter was written, the three party leaders held a joint press conference at which they expressed their intent to co-operate on changing parliamentary rules, and to request that the Governor General consult with them before deciding to call an election.

In March 1772 Deputy Governor Darius Sessions, working in Providence, sent a letter of concern to Governor Joseph Wanton in Newport, having consulted with Chief Justice Hopkins.

When Quiney and William Parsons wrote to Greville in 1593 asking his consent in the election for bailiff, they sent the letter to Mr. William Sawnders, attendant on the worshipful Mr. Thomas Bushell at Marston.

An illustration of this attitude is found in John A. McCone's letter to Dr. Thomas Lauritsen, reported in a note elsewhere in this issue of The New Republic.

In a similar vein, but writing from the opposite side, Thomas Taylor, a private in the 6th Alabama Volunteers, in a letter to his wife, stated: `` you know that my heart is with you but I never could have been satisfied to have staid at home when my country is invaded by a thievin foe, by a set of cowardly skunks whose motto is Booty.

Conrad Grebel wrote in a letter to Thomas Müntzer in 1524:

See also Thomas Jefferson's letter to Thomas Cooper.

With peace restored, Latrobe designed an American order that substituted for the acanthus tobacco leaves, of which he sent a sketch to Thomas Jefferson in a letter, November 5, 1816.

In 1914, the historian George Lincoln Burr sided with Upham in a note on Thomas Brattle's letter, " The strange suggestion of W. F. Poole that Brattle here means Cotton Mather himself, is adequately answered by Upham ..." Burr also reprinted Calef in full and dug deep into the historical record for information on the man and concludes "... that he had else any grievance against the Mathers or their colleagues there is no reason to think.

who wrote in a letter to Thomas Paine on the construction of an arch for a bridge:

Apologetically, in a letter to Keidrych Rhys, editor of literary magazine Wales, Thomas ' father wrote that he was " afraid Dylan isn't much of a Welshman ".

Thomas Jefferson writes in a 1814 letter to Thomas Law:

Smallpox Zero includes President Thomas Jefferson's letter of congratulations to Edward Jenner.

" Poe once wrote in a letter to Thomas Holley Chivers that he did not dislike Transcendentalists, " only the pretenders and sophists among them.

In September 1848, Douglass published a letter addressed to his former master, Thomas Auld, berating him for his conduct, and enquiring after members of his family still held by Auld.

Generally, each NOAA hull number is written with a space between the letter and the three-digit number, as in, for example, NOAAS Nancy Foster ( R 352 ) or NOAAS Thomas Jefferson ( S 222 ).

From a letter written by Thomas Purcell, and still extant, we learn that this anthem was composed for the exceptionally fine voice of the Rev.

Thomas Jefferson once said in a letter to Isaac McPherson on August 13, 1813:

In 1583, Thomas Stephens, an English Jesuit missionary in Goa, in a letter to his brother that was not published until the 20th century, noted similarities between Indian languages, specifically Konkani, and Greek and Latin.

Thomas Jefferson wrote in a letter, “ In our private pursuits it is a great advantage that every honest employment is deemed honorable.

Thomas Hodgkin, a translator of Cassiodorus ' works, wrote in 1886 that it was " surely possible " the Romulus in the letter was the same person as the last western emperor.

In response to the publication of Thomas Mann's The Black Swan, Adorno penned a long letter to the author, who then approved its publication in the literary journal Akzente.

Most major humanists were prolific letter writers, and Thomas More was no exception.

For instance, Thomas Edison wrote the following words in a letter to an associate in 1878:

Years later, in 1802 Thomas Jefferson, writing of the " wall of separation " echoed Roger Williams in a letter to the Danbury Baptist Association.