This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...given. In the left section are the arms of the following: --Sir William Phipps 1691-94 William Stoughton (lieutenant governor, acting governor) 1694-99 Richard Coote, Earl of Bellomont, .. 1699-1701 Joseph Dudley, 1702-15 Samuel Shute, 1716-22 In the right section: --William Dummer (lieutenant governor, acting governor ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...given. In the left section are the arms of the following: --Sir William Phipps 1691-94 William Stoughton (lieutenant governor, acting governor) 1694-99 Richard Coote, Earl of Bellomont, .. 1699-1701 Joseph Dudley, 1702-15 Samuel Shute, 1716-22 In the right section: --William Dummer (lieutenant governor, acting governor), 1723-28 William Burnet, 1728-29 Jonathan Belcher 1730-41 William Shirley, 1741-57 Thomas Pownall 1757-60 Seals The seals of Governors Bernard and Hutchinson have already been mentioned. Executive Department Council Chamber Flags Executive Department--Council Chamber The executive department occupies the west wing, third floor. All the governors elected under the constitution of Massachusetts, except three, have performed the duties of their office in these rooms, the administrations of John Hancock, James Bowdoin and Samuel Adams having ended before the completion of the Bulfinch State House. The Council Chamber is of the Corinthian order. The north wall is ornamented by the caduceus and cap of liberty, representing peace and freedom; the east wall by a golden star, representing Massachusetts, --one of the thirteen original States; the south wall by the scale and sword of justice, emblems of executive power; the west wall by the coat-of-arms. Wreaths of oak and laurel complete the decorations. The walls and ornamentations of this room were placed there by Bulfinch. Aside from the colors of the Civil and Spanish American wars ten flags represent distinct periods in the history of Massachusetts and the United States. The "first flag of New England," under which our ancestors lived and fought in the earlier colonial and provincial periods, is reproduced, having been presented by the Massachusetts Society of Colonial, During the alteratio...
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