Thomas Pownall
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Thomas Pownall was a British colonial administrator and politician. He was governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay from 1757 to 1760, and afterwards sat in the House of Commons from 1767 to 1780
Mezzotint by Richard Earlom after a Francis Cotes portrait, 1777
Portrait of William Shirley by Thomas Hudson, 1750. William Shirley was unseated as Massachusetts governor in part by Pownall's actions.
Pownall's drawing of the Passaic River's Great Falls
Pownall had a sometimes-contentious relationship with John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun.
The Province of Massachusetts Bay was a colony in New England which became one of the thirteen original states of the United States. It was chartered on October 7, 1691, by William III and Mary II, th
Thomas Pownall
…Thomas Pownall (bapt. 4 September 1722 N.S. – 25 February 1805) was a British colonial administrator and politician. He was governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay from 1757 to 1760, and afterwards sat in the House of Commons from 1767 to 1780. He travelled widely in British North America prior to the American…
A 1773 lithograph of the Boston Tea Party
John Trumbull's 1834 portrait of Joseph Warren's death at the Battle of Bunker Hill