Question: Who is The Royal Governor and American-born attorney in the 1700s?

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Peter Sergeant: Peter Sergeant (died 1714) was a merchant in Boston, Massachusetts, United States in the late 17th and early 18th century.  Born in England, he moved to Boston and prospered as a merchant.  He served as town constable in 1674, and as a Councillor 1692–1703 and 1707–1714.  He was a member of the Third Church congregation attending services at the Cedar House and later at the Old South Meeting House.  He was also associated with the New England Company.  During the 1689 Boston revolt, he participated in the Committee of Safety that ousted governor Edmund Andros.  In 1679, Sergeant built a large house on old Marlborough Street, and lived there for most of the rest of his life.  He left briefly 1699–ca.1700, in order to accommodate royal governor Richard Coote, 1st Earl of Bellomont.  (After 1716 the Sergeant House was known as the Province House).  Sergeant married four times: to Elizabeth Corwin; to Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Shrimpton (1682–1700); to Mary Phips (1701–1706); and to Mehitable Cooper (1706–1714).  His funeral was held on February 13, 1714; he is buried in the Granary Burying Ground.

Ambrosio de Benavides: Ambrosio de Benavides Medina Liñán y Torres (January 20, 1718 – April 27, 1787 ) was a Spanish colonial administrator who served as Royal Governor of Puerto Rico, Royal Governor of Charcas and Royal Governor of Chile.

Royal Governor of Chile: The Royal Governor of Chile ruled over the Spanish colonial administrative district called the Captaincy General of Chile, and as a result the Royal Governor also held the title of a Captain General.  There were 66 such governors or captains during the Spanish conquest and the later periods of Spanish-centered colonialism.

Thomas Lawrence (Governor of Maryland): Sir Thomas Lawrence (c. 1645–1714) was the 2nd Royal Governor of Maryland in 1693, elected by the Governor's Council following the death of Sir Lionel Copley, (1648-1693).  He governed the colony for only a few weeks before the new royally appointed governor, Edmund Andros, (1637-1714), arrived from his trans-Atlantic trip to take over control of the colony.  He was briefly the 6th Royal Governor of Maryland a second time when Andros then left the colony in 1694 (later also served as governor in the Dominion of New England and Virginia.

William Franklin: William Franklin FRSE ( 1730 – November 1813) was an American-born attorney, soldier, politician, and colonial administrator.  He was the acknowledged illegitimate son of Benjamin Franklin.  The last colonial Governor of New Jersey (1763–1776), Franklin was a steadfast Loyalist throughout the American Revolutionary War.  As his father was one of the most prominent Patriots and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, their differences caused an irreconcilable break between them.

Juan Antonio Garretón: Juan Antonio Garretón (born in Aragón, Spain) was a Spanish army officer who served as Royal Governor of Chiloé from 1761 to 1765.  Garretón had difficult relation with indigenous peoples and the Jesuits of Chiloé.  His removal from the position of Royal Governor of Chiloé was related to his violation the secrecy of correspondence of local Jesuits.

Samuel Tucker (New Jersey): Samuel Tucker (1721-1789) was an American colonial politician who served as a Freeholder in Hunterdon County, New Jersey during the colonial period, and later as President and Treasurer of the Provincial Congress of New Jersey during the American Revolutionary War.  During this period, the colony converted to an independent state in 1776 after the ouster of Royal Governor William Franklin and the election of the independent state's first governor, William Livingston.

Lionel Copley: Sir Lionel Copley (16481693) was the 1st Royal Governor of Maryland from 1692 through his death in 1693.  He was the first official royal governor appointed by the British crown after the colony was removed from the proprietary control of the Calvert family during the Glorious Revolution.  Copley engaged in a series of political struggles with the colonial assembly and the colonial secretary, Thomas Lawrence, in the year between his arrival and his death the next year.

Thomas Boone (governor): Thomas Boone (c. 1730 – 25 September 1812) was the 7th Royal Governor of New Jersey and the 28th Royal Governor of South Carolina.  The New Jersey town of Boonton (Boone Town, Booneton) is named in his honour.

Antonio de Guill y Gonzaga: Antonio de Guill y Gonzaga (died August 24, 1768) was a Spanish colonial administrator who served as Royal Governor of Panama and Royal Governor of Chile.

Supporting paragraphs: Samuel Tucker (New Jersey) William Franklin
Answer: William Franklin