A road had to be hacked through trackless forests between Hanover and Portsmouth to permit Governor Wentworth and a company of gentlemen to attend the first Dartmouth commencement in 1771.

It was renamed Concord in 1765 by Governor Benning Wentworth following a bitter boundary dispute between Rumford and the town of Bow ; the city name was meant to reflect the new concord, or harmony, between the disputant towns.

The Royal Governor of New Hampshire, John Wentworth, provided the land upon which Dartmouth would be built and on December 13, 1769, issued the charter in the name of King George III establishing the College.

Eleazar Wheelock, with a Royal Charter from King George III, on land donated by Royal Governor John Wentworth.

New Hampshire Governor Benning Wentworth

The outrage of the Wentworth proprietors was renewed in 1774 when Governor Tryon passed a law containing harsh provisions clearly targeted at the actions of the " Bennington Mob ".

Early in 1779, Governor Clinton issued a proclamation stating that the state of New York would honor the Wentworth grants, if the settlers would recognize New York's political jurisdiction over the Vermont territory.

Hanover was chartered by Governor Benning Wentworth on July 4, 1761, and in 1765 – 1766 its first inhabitants arrived, the majority from Connecticut.

The Governor of Nova Scotia, Sir John Wentworth ( governor ) | John Wentworth, attempted to convert the Maroons to Christianity.

In 1764, Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth granted to a group of approximately 70 land investors from Connecticut.

* December 13 – Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire is established as John Wentworth, the Royal Governor, conveys a charter from King George III of England.

* two State Dinners hosted by the Governor of New Hampshire and a Mayor's Tea Reception for Portsmouth's Sister Cities of Nichinan, Japan and Severodvinsk, Russia, all at the Wentworth by the Sea hotel, which provided accommodations for both the Japanese and Russian delegations in 1905 for 30 days, at no charge

Pembroke, New Hampshire, was named after the ninth Earl by Governor Benning Wentworth.

Settlement commenced in 1767, the year Barnstead was incorporated as a town by Governor John Wentworth.

Granted in 1765 by Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth, New Hampton was originally known as Moultonborough Addition after then-Colonel Jonathan Moulton, who held the position of town moderator.

It was granted by Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth in 1748 to his friend John Sanborn of Hampton, along with 59 others from Hampton, Exeter and Stratham.

It would be incorporated by Governor John Wentworth in 1770.

The community was first chartered in 1766 by Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth as Burton for General Jonathan Burton of Wilton.

First granted in 1767 by Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth, the town was named in honor of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham and Prime Minister of Great Britain who had recently led Britain to victory in the Seven Years War.

Chatham was regranted in 1770 by his nephew, Governor John Wentworth, to a group including Samuel Langdon, president of Harvard College and creator of the " Blanchard Map " of the North Country.

Eaton was incorporated in 1760 by Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth, and named for Governor Theophilus Eaton of Connecticut, a generous contributor to the funds needed to settle Massachusetts in 1630.

In 1749, the land was granted by Governor Benning Wentworth, and he renamed it Effingham for the Howard family, who were Earls of Effingham and who were related to the Wentworths by marriage.

The murders contributed to Republican Governor William Pitt Kellogg's request to President Grant for more Federal troops to help control the state.

Governor M. Price Daniel, Sr. and his family built and contributed a home structure in 1984, based on the original plans for the Governor's Mansion in Austin.

Governor Gooding's response to the President provided a severely distorted account of the financial arrangements for the trial, and a promise to return money contributed by the mine owners.

This did not sit well with the colonists, who immediately began a political campaign against Governor Robert FitzRoy that contributed to his early dismissal.

The impasse with Governor Orval Faubus may have contributed substantially to his decision to retire.

Many factors contributed to the cancellation: rising cost estimates ; poor management by physicists and Department of Energy officials ; the end of the need to prove the supremacy of American science with the collapse of the Soviet Union ; belief that many smaller scientific experiments of equal merit could be funded for the same cost ; Congress's desire to generally reduce spending ; the reluctance of Texas Governor Ann Richards ; and President Bill Clinton's initial lack of support for a project begun during the administrations of Richards's predecessor, Bill Clements, and Clinton's predecessors, Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush.

Many believe that his opinion was the cause of much opposition to him, and contributed to his 1875 loss of the Republican nomination for Governor of Ohio to Rutherford B. Hayes.

The conflict between the assembly and the executive over fiscal matters combined with the difficult economic situation contributed to the Rebellions of 1837 during which he was made commander-in-chief of the armed forces and acting Governor General of British North America.

On August 27, 2010, he was dismissed by Governor Christie after an error on a $ 400 million Race to the Top education grant may have contributed to New Jersey narrowly missing out on the government funding.

During the winter of 1864-65, Governor Watts had to deal with the increasing number of sacrifices demanded of his state, the breakdown of authority, the drain on war power, and an evaporating hope of victory, all of which contributed to the state's war weariness.

Vernon and Forts Morgan and Gaines on Mobile Bay, and he contributed more than five hundred troops to assist Florida Governor Madison S. Perry in capturing the Federal forts at Pensacola.

Dr. Peter Middleton reported on the progress with furthering this idea in another address to King ’ s College on November 3, 1769, stating “ The necessity and usefulness of a public infirmary has so warmly and pathetically set forth in a discourse delivered by Dr. Samuel Bard … that his Excellency, Sir Henry Moore immediately set on foot a subscription for that purpose to which himself and most of the gentlemen present liberally contributed .” Soon thereafter the new Governor of the Colony, John, the Earl of Dunmore through the interposition of Lieutenant Governor Cadwallader-Colden ” started a fund for the establishment of such a hospital.

However, the high popularity of George W. Bush's brother, Republican Governor Jeb Bush, contributed to a relatively comfortable victory for Bush, by a margin of 5 % over his Democratic rival, John Kerry.

A frequent contributor to the Republican Party, Holt has contributed over $ 500, 000 to the campaigns of Governor Rick Perry, who appointed Holt as a commissioner of the Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife.

Forster was " probably the most erudite and literate of the squatters " and from 1844 onwards he contributed significantly to Robert Lowe's the Atlas, including The Devil and the Governor, a poem attacking Governor Gipps, described as one of the best Australian satirical poems written in the 19th century.

In particular, Governor Nelson Rockefeller has expressed as cogently and clearly as anyone the case for a resumption of atmospheric tests.

and now, therefore, do I, John A. Notte, Jr., Governor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, proclaim the week of June 11th to 17th, 1961, as Miss Rhode Island Pageant Week, with deep appreciation to the Jaycees, local and statewide, for the presentation of their beautiful Pageants and the encouragement of all Rhode Island girls to participate.

To have applied statewide the decisions of the two cases heard in Superior Court, in my opinion, would have placed us clearly out of compliance with the Wagner-Peyser Act and would have immediately opened the way for the Secretary of Labor, were he so inclined, to notify the Governor of such noncompliance, set a date for hearing, and issue his finding.

Chauncey Depew, one-time runner-up for the Republican Presidential nomination, was attending a convention at Saratoga, where he was scheduled to nominate Colonel Theodore Roosevelt for Governor of New York when he noticed that the temporary chairman was a man he had never met.

Governor Notte said last night he plans to name a committee to make the study and come up with recommendations for possible changes in time for the next session of the General Assembly.

A check for $4,177.37 representing the last payment of a $50,000 federal grant to Rhode Island Hospital was presented to the hospital administrator, Oliver G. Pratt, yesterday by Governor Notte.

He was getting the feel of the room for a concert tomorrow night for Puerto Rico Governor Luis Munoz Marin.

" Other prestigious architectural awards are the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, the Richard H. Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture, the Alvar Aalto Medal ( Finland ), the Carlsberg Architecture Prize ( Denmark ), and the Governor General's Awards ( Canada ).

Mackenzie formed a government and asked the Governor General to call an election for January 1874.

He was elected as Governor of Tennessee for two terms ; all these offices were gained as a member of the Democratic Party.

While campaigning for U. S. President, the then Governor Clinton returned to Arkansas to see that Ricky Ray Rector would be executed.

When the crowd — eventually reinforced by mutinous gardes françaises — proved a fair match for the fort's defenders, Governor de Launay, the commander of the Bastille, capitulated and opened the gates to avoid a mutual massacre.

Until 1928 it was directed by a General Manager, after this time instead by a Governor elected by an internal commission of managers, with a decree from the President of the Italian Republic for a term of 7 years.

By 1972, however, with only a minimum of work done on the I-95 right of way and none on the potentially massively disruptive Inner Belt, Governor Francis Sargent put a moratorium on highway construction within the MA-128 corridor, except for a short stretch of Interstate 93.

Immediately following the fatal ceiling collapse, Governor Mitt Romney ordered a stem-to-stern safety audit conducted by the Illinois engineering firm of Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc. to look for additional areas of risk.

However, in July 2006, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Governor George Pataki, and Comptroller William C. Thompson, Jr. announced the final approval for the New York City Housing Trust Fund derived from $ 130 million in Battery Park City revenues.

Mu Bai and Shu Lien trace the theft to Governor Yu's compound and learn that Jade Fox has been posing as Jen's governess for many years.

In 1898 the Governor of Jamaica began appointing a Commissioner for the Islands.

Starting in 1959 the chief official overseeing the day to day affairs of the islands ( for the Governor ) was the Administrator.