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Francis Nicholson 1655-1728, British colonial administrator in North America. Lieutenant governor under Sir Edmund Andros , he fled (1689) to England during the revolt in New York led by Jacob Leisler . He returned (1690) to America as lieutenant governor of Virginia and was later governor of Maryland (1694-98) and governor of Virginia (1698-1705). A Modest Answer to a Malicious Libel (1704) is a defense of his conduct in quarrels in Virginia. In 1709 Nicholson led an expedition against Port Royal (now Annapolis Royal, N.S.) and the next year successfully occupied the town, recording his experiences in the Journal of an Expedition … for the Reduction of Port Royal (1711). He was named (1713) governor of Nova Scotia, but his term of office ended on the death of Queen Anne in 1714. He was (1720-25) royal governor of South Carolina. During all his administrations he actively promoted education and the Church of England.

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Nicholson, Francis (1655–1728) first royal governor of South Carolina (1720–25), born in Yorkshire, England. Nicholson had previously served in a variety of capacities as both an administrative and military representative of royal authority, among them lieutenant governor of New York (1688–89), lieutenant governor of Virginia (1690–92), governor of Maryland (1694–98), and captain general and governor in chief of Virginia (1698–1705). In nearly all of these positions he alienated the colonists, whom he considered provincial and incapable of ruling themselves. Nicholson also served as governor of Nova Scotia (1712–14), which he had reconquered for Britain (1710). Early in his military career he had served in America with Sir Edmund Andros (1686–87).

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