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The choice, in any case, lay between the Naval Office and the surveyorship, and Bridge urged Hawthorne's appointment to the latter.

From A Study of Hawthorne by Lathrop, George Parsons

My surveyorship is lost, and I have no expectation, nor any desire, of regaining it.

From Memories of Hawthorne by Lathrop, Rose Hawthorne

John attained to the command of the regiment of his county, to its surveyorship, and to the presiding chair of its magistracy; stations then never conferred but upon leading men in the community.

From Homes of American Statesmen With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches by Various

Richard Lindsay was supported for the surveyorship and myself for the naval office.

From Memories of Hawthorne by Lathrop, Rose Hawthorne

Who has ever heard of a Government which binds itself to give the surveyorship of a new country to one man only?

From A Century of Wrong by Reitz, F. W.