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 the North American colonies prior to the American Revolutionary War, opposed Parliamentary attempts to tax the colonies, and was a minority advocate of colonial positions until the Revolution. (From Wikipedia) More about Thomas Pownall:
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6 additional books about Thomas Pownall in the extended shelves: Thomas Pownall, M.P.,F.R.S., governor of Massachusetts Bay (H. Stevens, son & Stiles, 1908), by Charles Assheton Whately Pownall (page images at HathiTrust)
Thomas Pownall, British defender of American liberty; a study of Anglo-American relations in the eighteenth century. (A. H. Clark Co., 1951), by John A. Schutz (page images at HathiTrust)
Junius discovered. (Little, Brown, 1854), by Frederick Griffin (page images at HathiTrust)
Thomas Pownall, M.P., F.R.S., governor of Massachusetts Bay, author of The letters of Junius; with a supplement comparing the colonies of Kings George III and Edward VII (H. Stevens, Son & Stiles, 1908), by Charles Assheton Whately Pownall (page images at HathiTrust)
Thomas Pownall, M. P., F. R. S., governor of Massachusetts Bay (H. Stevens, son & Stiles, 1908), by Charles Assheton Whately Pownall (page images at HathiTrust)
Mohawk and Seneca set right by the aid of a learned colonial governor, T. Pownall a paper read April 3, 1894, before the Pioneer and Historical Society of the County of York, Ontario (s.n., 1894), by Henry Scadding (page images at HathiTrust)
Books by Thomas Pownall: Pownall, Thomas, 1722-1805: The Administration of the Colonies (London: Printed for J. Wilkie, 1764)
Additional books by Thomas Pownall in the extended shelves: Pownall, Thomas, 1722-1805: The administration of the British colonies. (Printed for J. Walter, 1774), also by David De War (page images at HathiTrust) Pownall, Thomas, 1722-1805: The administration of the British colonies (Printed for J. Walter ..., 1774) (page images at HathiTrust) Pownall, Thomas, 1722-1805: The administration of the British colonies : wherein their rights and constitution are discussed and stated (J. Walter, 1774), also by George Pitt Rivers (page images at HathiTrust) Pownall, Thomas, 1722-1805: The administration of the colonies (Printed for J. Dodsley ... and J. Walter ..., 1766) (page images at HathiTrust) Pownall, Thomas, 1722-1805: The administration of the colonies (Printed for J. Dodsley ... and J. Walter ..., 1765) (page images at HathiTrust) Pownall, Thomas, 1722-1805: The administration of the colonies wherein their rights and constitution are discussed and stated (Printed for J. Walter ..., 1768) (page images at HathiTrust) Pownall, Thomas, 1722-1805: An antiquarian romance : endeavouring to mark a line, by which the most ancient people, and the processions of the earliest inhabitancy of Europe, may be investigated ; some remarks on Mr. Whitaker's criticisms annexed (Printed by and for John Nichols, 1795), also by John Whitaker (page images at HathiTrust) Pownall, Thomas, 1722-1805: The history and art of horsemanship (T. Davies, 1771), also by Richard Berenger and John A. Seaverns Equine Collection (Tufts University) (page images at HathiTrust) Pownall, Thomas, 1722-1805: Mémoire adressé aux souverains de l'Europe sur l'état présent des affaires de l'ancien et du nouveau monde (Chez Thompson, 1782) (page images at HathiTrust) Pownall, Thomas, 1722-1805: A memorial addressed to the sovereigns of America (Printed for J. Debrett ..., 1783) (page images at HathiTrust) Pownall, Thomas, 1722-1805: A memorial, most humbly addressed to the sovereigns of Europe, on the present state of affairs, between the Old and New world. (Printed for J. Almon, 1780) (page images at HathiTrust) Pownall, Thomas, 1722-1805: A memorial most humbly addressed to the sovereigns of Europe on the present state of affairs between the Old and New World. (Printed for J. Almon ..., 1780) (page images at HathiTrust) Pownall, Thomas, 1722-1805: Notices and descriptions of antiquities of the provincia romana of Gaul, now Provence, Languedoc, and Dauphine; with dissertations on the subjects of which those are exemplars, and an appendix describing the Roman baths and thermæ discovered in 1784, at Badenweiler. (Printed by and for J. Nichols, 1788) (page images at HathiTrust) Pownall, Thomas, 1722-1805: Remembrancer. (J. Almon, 1775), also by John Almon (page images at HathiTrust) Pownall, Thomas, 1722-1805: The right, interest, and duty, of government, as concerned in the affairs of the East Indies : the case as stated and argument upon it as first written (J. Almon, 1781) (page images at HathiTrust) Pownall, Thomas, 1722-1805: The right, interest, and duty of the state, as concerned in the affairs of the East Indies. (S. Bladon, 1773) (page images at HathiTrust) Pownall, Thomas, 1722-1805: The speech of Th-m-s P-wn-ll, Esq; late g-v-rn-r of this province, in the H--se of C-m--ns, in favor of America. ([Boston : s.n., 1769]) (HTML at Evans TCP) Pownall, Thomas, 1722-1805: Three memorials most humbly addressed to the sovereigns of Europe, Great Britain, and North America (Printed for T. Cadell, B. White, T. Payne, P. Elmsley, J. Walter, and J. Debrett, 1784) (page images at HathiTrust) Pownall, Thomas, 1722-1805: A topographical description of such parts of North America as are contained in the (annexed) map of the middle British colonies in North America (Printed for J. Almon ..., 1776) (page images at HathiTrust) Pownall, Thomas, 1722-1805: A topographical description of the dominions of the United States of America. <Being a rev. and enl. ed. of> A topographical description of such parts of North America as are contained in the (annexed) map of the middle British colonies, &c., in North America (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1949), also by Lois Mulkearn, Christopher Gist, and Lewis Evans (page images at HathiTrust) Pownall, Thomas, 1722-1805: A translation of the memorial to the sovereigns of Europe upon the present state of affairs, between the Old and the New World, into common sense and intelligible English (Printed for J. Stockdale ..., 1781) (page images at HathiTrust) Pownall, Thomas, 1722-1805: A treatise on the study of antiquities as the commentary to historical learning, sketching out a general line of research, also marking and explaining some of the desiderata. With an appendix. N₀ I. On the elements of speach. N₀ II. On the origin of written language, picture, hieroglyphic, and elementary-writing. N₀ III. On the ships of the ancients. N₀ IV. On the chariots of the ancients. (J. Dodsley, 1782) (page images at HathiTrust) Pownall, Thomas, 1722-1805: A treatise on the study of antiquities as the commentary to historical learning, sketching out a general line of research. (J. Dodsley, 1782) (page images at HathiTrust) Pownall, Thomas, 1722-1805: Two memorials, not originally intended for publication, now published; with an explanatory preface (Printed for J. Dodsley, 1782) (page images at HathiTrust) Pownall, Thomas, 1722-1805: Two memorials, not originally intended for publication, now published with an explanatory preface (Printed for J. Dodsley ..., 1782) (page images at HathiTrust)
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