page_title: Samuel Vetch
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caption_attribution_description: English: Samuel Vetch Identifier: foundersportrait01bolt (find matches) Title: The founders; portraits of persons born abroad who came to the colonies in North America before the year 1701, with an introduction, biographical outlines and comments on the portraits Year: 1921 (1920s) Authors: Bolton, Charles Knowles, 1867-1950 Subjects: Portraits, American United States -- History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Biography Publisher: (Boston) The Boston athenaeum Contributing Library: New York Public Library Digitizing Sponsor: MSN View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: or there were six shipsbroken and cast away; but God was pleased to make out his promiseto me, for none of the ships he commanded were lost. He served as governor of Nova Scotia in 1710-1712,1715-1717, and tried to be generous and just as an administrator.It has been said, however, that all the troubles of Vetchsadministration are to be ascribed to that difference in lan-guage which made him harsh, and that difference in faithwhich made him bitter. Finally, being reduced to thelast extremity of necessity, he died, 30 April, 1732, aprisoner for debt, in the Kings bench, London, and wasburled at Southwark the next day. His only child, Alida,married Samuel Bayard, nephew and secretary of GovernorStuyvesant. Vetch had many of the elements of a greatleader, but circumstances. Inherited convictions, and misfor-tune conspired to neutralize the efifect of his remarkablepowers. An Acadian Governor, by James Grant Wilson. International Review, Novem-ber, i88i. Memoirs of Mr. William Veitch. 334 Text Appearing After Image: SAMUEL VETCH1668-1722 (1335) TH?^ NEW YORKPUBLIC LIBRARY y^ NOV 3 - 1939 Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: Samuel Vetch was a Scottish soldier and colonial governor of Nova Scotia. He was a leading figure in the Darien scheme, a failed Scottish attempt to colonise the Isthmus of Panama in the late 1690s. During the War of the Spanish Succession he was an early proponent of the idea that Great Britain should take New France, proposing in 1708 that it be conquered and that the residents of Acadia be deported. He was the grandfather of Samuel Bayard.
context_section_description: Samuel Vetch (9 December 1668, Edinburgh, Scotland – 30 April 1732) was a Scottish soldier and colonial governor of Nova Scotia.  He was a leading figure in the Darien scheme, a failed Scottish attempt to colonise the Isthmus of Panama in the late 1690s.  During the War of the Spanish Succession he was an early proponent of the idea that Great Britain should take New France, proposing in 1708 that it be conquered and that the residents of Acadia be deported.  (The latter idea would acted on during the Seven Years' War of the 1750s.) He was the grandfather of Samuel Bayard.
caption: Engraving of a portrait of Vetch by an unknown artist
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