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Group of documents re: French and Indian War [Decimalized .01- .05]

Collection of letters from Governor of Massachusetts Thomas Pownall to various recipients and in a number of official capacities.

GLC07901

to Captain John North

GLC07901.01

to Brigadier Monckton

GLC07901.02

to Col. John Thomas

GLC07901.03

[Clipped signature mounted on engraving of Pownall]

Includes Pownall's signature and an engraving of Pownall mounted on backing. Signature possibly created circa 1780. Engraving copyrighted 1897 by Little, Brown, & Co. based on the original engraving by Richard Earlom, first printed in 1777....

GLC02207.02

A topographical description of such parts of North America... [with] Map

With "A Map of the Middle British Colonies in North America... 1776." Not in Nebenzahl, Battle Plans of the American Revolution, but 41 (Sayer & Bennett, American Military Pocket Atlas, no.3) is based on these maps.

GLC04176

[French and Indian War privateer's commission of Captain Samuel Partridge]

Countersigned by Thomas Clarke, Deputy Secretary. Pownall, Governor of Massachusetts Bay, authorizes Captain Samuel Partridge to "set forth in warlike manner the said Ship Race Horse under his own Command and ... seize & take the Ships, Vessels, and...

GLC02587

[Clipped signature of Royal Governor Pownall]

Possibly created in Boston. States "In Council Jan. 4 1758 Read & Conceiv'd Thos. Clarke... Consenteet to Pownall." On verso, contains a partial petition from the town of Boxford, Massachusetts, to the Governor of Massachusetts.

GLC01450.327

[Signature of Pownall and Andrew Oliver]

GLC01450.336

[Commission for Gamaliel Bradford to serve as Captain of a Company raised to aid in the British invasion of Canada]

Pownall, Royal Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, commissions Bradford to lead a Company of soldiers in a regiment commanded by Colonel Thomas Doty during the 1758 British invasion of French Canada.

GLC01450.650