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

• imprint_number: 1740.005
• title: The speech of the Honourable William Gooch, Esq.
• sequence_number: 5
• 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 May 22, 1740. Called in response to the Anglo-Spanish War of 1739-42 (War of Jenkins' Ear), Gooch asked the Assembly for measures to protect Virginia's coast and the colony's overseas trade.
  
  
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