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en-wikipedia-org-7928		Cadwallader Colden - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	2187	255	71	Cadwallader Colden (7 February 1688 – 28 September 1776) was a physician, natural scientist, a lieutenant governor and acting Governor for the Province of New York. He was acting governor of New York from 1760 to 1762 (replaced by Robert Monckton in 1762) and again from 1763 to 1765, and finally from 1769 to 1771 after Henry Moore's death. In summer 1775, the British authority in New York came to its end as America entered into Revolutionary era, and Colden retired from public life. In May 1743, while serving as surveyor general of New York, Cadwallader began a correspondence with Benjamin Franklin encouraging Franklin to create the American Philosophical Society to which he was elected membership one year later.[7] Franklin knew Colden by reputation and was flattered to hear from him.[8] He replied at once, "I cannot be but fond of engaging in a correspondence so advantageous to me as yours must be. Cadwallader Colden and the New York Stamp Act Riots.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7928.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7928.txt