FLETCHER, BENJAMIN
\flˈɛt͡ʃə], \flˈɛtʃə], \f_l_ˈɛ_tʃ_ə]\
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was appointed Governor of New York by William and Mary. He arrived in 1692 and received a commission to assume also the government of Pennsylvania, which he did in 1693. He was zealous in the extension of the English Church. In 1698 he was deposed on account of suspicions of complicity with pirates.
By John Franklin Jameson
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