Can any readers of the Spectator help the English- Speaking
Union to trace authenticated portraits of any of the following? If so, perhaps they would very, kindly communicate with me, care of this journal. Pictures of the following are still missing in the State House of Boston :— I. Governors of Plymouth Colony : 1620, John Carver ; 1621, William Bradford ; 1634, Thomas Prince ; 1680, Thomas Hinckley. II. Governors of Massachusetts Bay Colony under the First Charter : 1629, Matthew Cradoek ; 1634-51, Thomas Dudley ; 1635-36, John Haynes ; 1641-72, Richard Bellingham. Appointed by the King and Second Charter. Governors of the Province of Massachusetts Bay : 1692-94, Sir William Phips ; 1715-16, William Taller; Elizeus Burgess ; 1716-22, Samuel Shuts; 1749-57, Spencer Phips. IV. Also Miles Standish, although he was never actually Governor. This portrait is said to be "sorely needed" if an authentic portrait can be found. * * * *
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