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Colonial Governor SAMUEL WARD signed document.

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Colonial Governor SAMUEL WARD signed document.

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Samuel Ward (1725-1776) Farmer, politician. Ward was Governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, and a delegate to the Continental Congress. He became a founder and trustee of Rhode Island's first college, Brown University. The most contentious issue he faced during his three years as governor involved the Stamp Act which had been passed by the British Parliament just before he took office for the second time. This act, putting a tax on all official documents and newspapers, infuriated the American colonists, being done without their consent. Representatives of the colonies met to discuss the unpopular act, but when it came time for the colonial governors to take a position in regards to the act, Ward was the only one who refused it. Partially printed document signed, Colony of Rhode Island, June 18, 1762. The document appoints Jonathan Sayles a Justice of the Peace. Some paper loss in folds, one of which is through the signature. The document measures 12x7 inches.