Person:William Burnet (5)

William Burnet

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m. May 1721

Facts and Events

Name	William Burnet
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]	Mar 1687/88	The Hague, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
Marriage	May 1721	New York[2nd wife] to Anna Maria Van Horne
Death^[1]	7 Sep 1729	Boston, Massachusetts
Reference Number		Q8006177 (Wikidata)

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 William Burnet (colonial administrator), in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia
last accessed Mar 2017.

William Burnet (March 1687/8[1] – 7 September 1729) was a British civil servant and colonial administrator who served as governor of New York and New Jersey (1720–1728) and Massachusetts and New Hampshire (1728–1729). Born into a position of privilege (his godfather became William III of England not long after his birth, and his father Gilbert Burnet was later Bishop of Salisbury), Burnet was well educated, tutored among others by Isaac Newton. ...