Imprint Record

Speech of the Governor to the General Assembly (November 1738)

• Imprint Number: 1738.005
• Title: The speech of the Honourable William Gooch, Esq.
• Sequence Number: 5
• Year: 1738
• Place Issued: Williamsburg
• Issuing Press: William Parks
• Author: Gooch, William, Sir (1681-1751), lieutenant governor.
• Notes: Address of the resident governor opening the Assembly session, setting out the legislative priorities of the imperial administration, delivered November 4, 1738. As in recent Assembly sessions, Gooch was primarily concerned with extending the tobacco-inspection law and in revising the militia law.
  
  
• Related Biographies:
  • William Parks

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