Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Memoirs of American Governors, Vol. 1
The writer of these pages has formed the design of preparing for publication, memoirs OF american governors - embracing those who have successively held the high office of Chief Magistrate, in the sever al Colonies, which now form the United States; to to be followed by Memoirs of the Governors of the sev eral States. The intelligent reader has perhaps felt the want of such a work. Our best Biographical Dictiona ries contain but meagre sketches of a few of those pub lic men, who have been distinguished as Governors while of others, who were renowned in their day, and exercised an important in?uence upon the times in which they lived, no account whatever is to be found.
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