For the portrait painter, see Samuel Addison Shute.
Samuel Shute
5th Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay
In office October 5, 1716 – January 1, 1723
Preceded by
William Tailer (Acting)
Succeeded by
William Dummer (Acting)
Governor of the Province of New Hampshire
In office October 5, 1716 – January 1, 1723
Preceded by
George Vaughan (Acting)
Succeeded by
John Wentworth (Acting)
Personal details
Born
January 12, 1662 London, England
Died
April 15, 1742(1742-04-15) (aged 80) England
Alma mater
Leiden University
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Samuel Shute (January 12, 1662 – April 15, 1742) was an English military officer and royal governor of the provinces of Massachusetts and New Hampshire. After serving in the Nine Years' War and the War of the Spanish Succession, he was appointed by King George I as governor of Massachusetts and New Hampshire in 1716. His tenure was marked by virulent disagreements with the Massachusetts assembly on a variety of issues, and by poorly conducted diplomacy with respect to the Native American Wabanaki Confederacy of northern New England that led to Dummer's War (1722–1725).
Although Shute was partly responsible for the breakdown in negotiations with the Wabanakis, he returned to England in early 1723 to procure resolutions to his ongoing disagreements with the Massachusetts assembly, leaving conduct of the war to Lieutenant Governor William Dummer. His protests resulted in the issuance in 1725 of the Explanatory Charter, essentially confirming his position in the disputes with the assembly. He did not return to New England, being replaced as governor in 1728 by William Burnet, and refused to be considered for reappointment after Burnet's sudden death in 1729.
Thomas Hutchinson (Massachusetts royal governor in the early 1770s), in his history of Massachusetts, described Shute's tenure as governor as the most contentious since the Antinomian Controversy of the 1630s.[1]
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real estate, but Governor Dudley and his successor SamuelShute both opposed the idea. Dudley, Shute, and later governors fruitlessly attempted to convince...
were already plundering the remains. Hearing of the shipwreck, governor SamuelShute dispatched Captain Cyprian Southack, a local salvager and cartographer...
antiquarian and naturalist. The Hon. Samuel Barrington was a Rear-Admiral in the Royal Navy. The Right Reverend the Hon. Shute Barrington was Bishop of Salisbury...
prevent the capital from being attacked.: 56 Massachusetts Governor SamuelShute declared war on the Abenaki. New Englanders retrieved some of the vessels...
and died when Samuel was 7. His mother, Mary Shute Nicholas, had died the year before. He was then taken in by his uncle, Attwood Shute, the Mayor of...
– James Douglas, Scottish physician, anatomist (b. 1675) April 15 – SamuelShute, Governor of Massachusetts Bay and New Hampshire (b. 1662) April 17 –...
their efforts the king chose Colonel SamuelShute, a land bank opponent, to replace Burges, and William Dummer as Shute's lieutenant governor. Tailer was turned...
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