What is "gouverneur"

Usage examples of "gouverneur".

I can tell you, Herr Gouverneur, traveling from here to Kiev and back again, I have learned a good deal about Russian incivility and ineptitude.

But Gouverneur Morris, a member of the New York Committee of Safety, told his colleagues after consulting with Schuyler, who had consulted with Washington, “I will venture to say that if we lay it down as a maxim, never to contend for ground but in the last necessity, and to leave nothing but a wilderness to the enemy, their progress must be impeded by obstacles, which it is not in human nature to surmount.

Isaac Wilkins, the brother-in-law of Gouverneur and Lewis Morris, the latter a signer of the Declaration of Independence, turned loyalist, while a third brother, Staats Morris, became a British general and member of Parliament.

Much of the Carolina backcoun-try was strongly Tory in its sympathies, and in New York, Gouverneur Morris thought that half the colony (whose population was 180,000) was in open or secret sympathy with the king.

Rich­ard Henry Lee, in a letter to George Mason, similarly inveighed against “the demon of avarice, extortion, and fortune-making,” and Washington wrote to Gouverneur Morris with equal disgust, “Can we carry on the war much longer?

Congressman Gouverneur Morris of New York, primarily concerned with replenishing the Continental treasury, urged that all citizens at first be confined to their houses and forced to pay a collective tribute of £100,000, the individual amounts to be determined by their wealth and degree of collaboration with the British.

For it is precisely that on which the continuance of obligation from our treaty with France was established, and the doctrine was particularly developed in a letter to Gouverneur Morris, written with the approbation of President Washington and his cabinet.

I had before given the same answer to the same intimation from Gouverneur Morris.