Imprint Record

Speech of the Governor to the General Assembly (August 1740)

• Imprint Number: 1740.010
• Title: The speech of the Honourable William Gooch, Esq;
• Sequence Number: 10
• Year: 1740
• 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 on August 21, 1740. Called in response to the Anglo-Spanish War of 1739-42 (War of Jenkins' Ear), Gooch asked for monies to pay for supplies for the colonial expeditions against Spanish America then gathering.
  
  
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  • William Parks

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