John Harvey (Virginia governor)

Sir John Harvey (died 1646)[1][2] was a Crown Governor of Virginia.[3] He was appointed to the position on 26 March 1628 by Charles I of England.[4] In 1635 he was suspended and impeached by the Council of Virginia (who named John West as a temporary replacement), and he returned to England. Charles I restored him to his post [5] in 1636. He returned to Virginia in January 1637 and served until November 1639. The captain, officers, and sailors of the ship that transported the governor to Virginia in 1635 sued in Admiralty court for their pay.[6] His government has been described as tyrannical[7] and Harvey himself has been called "an obnoxious ruler"[8] and was generally held to be unpopular.[9]

In 1639 Harvey was replaced as governor by Sir Francis Wyatt.[10]

He owned Boldrup Plantation.[11]

See also

References
  1. "Governor of Virginia". Retrieved 23 September 2007.
  2. "WorldStatesmen.org". Retrieved 23 September 2007.
  3. Tarter, Brent. "Sir John Harvey (ca. 1581 or 1582–by 1650)". Encyclopedia Virginia/Dictionary of Virginia Biography. Retrieved 11 March 2015.
  4. Brock, Robert A. (1888). Virginia and Virginians. H.H. Hardesty. pp. 20. ISBN 0-87152-110-5.
  5. Cooke, John Esten (1883). Virginia: A History of the People. Houghton, Mifflin and Co. pp. 166.
  6. "America and West Indies: December 1636." Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 1, 1574-1660. Ed. W Noel Sainsbury. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1860. 242-243. British History Online Retrieved 9 June 2019.
  7. Grahame, James (1836). The History of the United States of North America: From the Plantation of the British Colonies till their Revolt and Declaration of Independence. Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 57.
  8. Chalmers, George (1845). An Introduction to the History of the Revolt of the American Colonies: Being a Comprehensive View of its Origin, Derived from the State Papers Contained in the Public Offices of Great Britain. J. Munroe & Co. pp. 35-36. ISBN 0-405-03278-1.
  9. Billings, Warren M. (1975). The Old Dominion in the Seventeenth Century: A Documentary History of Virginia, 1606-1689. UNC Press. pp. 236. ISBN 0-8078-1237-4.
  10. Fiske, John (1900). Old Virginia and Her Neighbours. Houghton, Mifflin and Company. pp. 280.
  11. Calder Roth ed. (1999). The Virginia Landmarks Register: Boldrup Plantation Archeological Site. University of Virginia Press.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)


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