Jonathan Belcher, Colonial governor / Michael C. Batinski.
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TextPublication details: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, [2015], ©1996.Description: 1 online resource (231 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780813162027
- 0813162025
- Belcher, Jonathan, 1682-1757
- Belcher, Jonathan, 1682-1757
- Governors -- Massachusetts -- Biography
- Governors -- New Hampshire -- Biography
- Massachusetts -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
- New Hampshire -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
- Gouverneurs -- New Hampshire -- Biographies
- Massachusetts -- Histoire -- ca 1600-1775 (Période coloniale)
- New Hampshire -- Histoire -- ca 1600-1775 (Période coloniale)
- HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General
- HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
- HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Political
- Governors
- Massachusetts
- New Hampshire
- 1600-1775
- Belcher, Jonathan
- Governors Biography Massachusetts
- Governors Biography New Hampshire
- Massachusetts History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
- New Hampshire History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
- 974.2/02/092
- F67.B45 B38 2015
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 The Puritan in a Whiggish Age; 2 The Perils of Public Life; 3 Interpreting the Role of Governor; 4 The Art of Politics; 5 The Soul of Politics; 6 Servant to the King and People; 7 Exile and Fulfillment; List of Abbreviations; Notes; Sources; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W.
As early as the eighteenth century, New England's ministers were decrying public morality. Evangelical leaders such as Jonathan Edwards called for rulers to become spiritual as well as political leaders who would renew the people's covenant with God. The prosperous merchant Jonathan Belcher (1682-1757) self-consciously strove to become such a leader, an American Nehemiah. As governor of three royal colonies and early patron of the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University), Belcher became an important but controversial figure in colonial America. In this first biography of the colonial.
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