Moses Gill
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Moses Gill was an American merchant and politician who served as the acting governor of Massachusetts from 1799 to 1800, when he died in office, the only acting governor to do so. A successful busines
Portrait by John Singleton Copley, 1764
Portrait of Sarah Prince Gill by John Singleton Copley, 1764.
1792 engraving showing the Gill estate in Princeton
Gill was lieutenant governor under Increase Sumner.
Caleb Strong
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Caleb Strong Jr. was an American lawyer, politician, and Founding Father who served as the sixth and tenth governor of Massachusetts between 1800 and 1807, and again from 1812 until 1816. He assisted
Portrait attributed to Gilbert Stuart
Bust of Elbridge Gerry, Strong's frequent gubernatorial opponent (Herbert Adams, 1892)
Fort Adams, the principal defense of Boston Harbor, in 1789. It was later rededicated Fort Independence.
British General Sir John Coape Sherbrooke, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia and leader of the expedition that in 1814 occupied Castine