Question: John Usher was an English colonial administrator who served as treasurer of an administrative union of English colonies covering New England and the Mid-Atlantic Colonies except for what colony?

John Coggeshall Jr. (c. 1624 - 1 October 1708) was a deputy governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.  The son of Rhode Island President John Coggeshall Sr., he was raised in the village of Castle Hedingham in northeastern Essex where his father was a merchant.  Aged about eight, he sailed from England with his parents and surviving siblings, arriving in New England in 1632.  He was first active in civil affairs in 1653 when he became treasurer of the island towns of Portsmouth and Newport.  The following year brought the re-unification of the colony, with the island towns rejoining the government with Providence and Warwick, and he served as treasurer of the four towns for a year.  His name appears on a list of Newport freemen in 1655, and for the following 35 years he served almost continuously in one or multiple roles including Assistant, General Treasurer, Deputy, General Recorder, and Major for the Island.  He was one of ten Assistants named in the Royal Charter of 1663, which would become the basis for Rhode Island's government for nearly two centuries.  In 1686 he became the Deputy Governor under Governor Walter Clarke, but his term lasted only a month when the English crown assigned Edmund Andros to be Governor of all the New England colonies under the Dominion of New England.  Following the demise of this dominion and the arrest of Andros in 1689, Coggeshall was once again selected as Deputy Governor for the year ending in May 1690, serving under Governor Henry Bull.  In April 1676, during King Philip's War, he was on a committee to procure boats for the colony's defense.  Later that year, in August, he was a member of a court martial for the trial of several Indians. <SEP>  Born in Boston, he served as treasurer of the Dominion of New England from 1686 until the Boston Revolt of 1689.  After the revolt, dominion governor Sir Edmund Andros was confined in Usher's home. John Usher (1642–1722) was an English colonial administrator.  Usher was twice lieutenant governor of the Province of New Hampshire (1692–1697 and 1702–1715).  As lieutenant governor, he frequently held the reins of power, since the governors (his father-in-law Samuel Allen, and Joseph Dudley) were often absent from the province.  His rule was unpopular.  He died in Medford, Massachusetts in 1722. <SEP> Edward Randolph (1632 - April 1703) was an English colonial administrator, best known for his role in effecting significant changes in the structure of England's North American colonies in the later years of the 17th century.  Called "evil genius of New England and her angel of death", his reports to the Lords of Trade (predecessors to the 18th century Board of Trade) convinced King Charles II to revoke the charter of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1684, and he was a leading figure in the unpopular Dominion of New England.  Randolph served as secretary of the dominion.  While in that position, he argued for tighter crown control over proprietary and charter colonies whose administrations lacked such oversight, and he was often given the difficult task of enforcing England's Navigation Acts in whichever colony he was posted to, often against significant local popular and political resistance.  His actions were a significant contribution to the development of Great Britain's colonial administrative infrastructure, but he remained unpopular in the dominion.  During the 1689 Boston revolt, which deposed Andros and overthrew the dominion, he was jailed. <SEP>  Its political structure represented centralized control similar to the model used by the Spanish monarchy through the Viceroyalty of New Spain.  The dominion was unacceptable to most colonists, because they deeply resented being stripped of their rights and having their colonial charter revoked. The Dominion of New England in America (1686–89) was an administrative union of English colonies covering New England and the Mid-Atlantic Colonies (except for the Colony of Pennsylvania).  Governor Sir Edmund Andros tried to make legal and structural changes, but most of these were undone and the Dominion was overthrown as soon as word was received that King James had left the throne in England.  One notable change was the introduction of the Church of England into Massachusetts, whose Puritan leaders had previously refused to allow it any sort of foothold.