. Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston. amilies. Theterrific earthquake of 1755 shook the townto its foundations, and filled the streets with the debris of ruinedhouses, about fifteen hundred sustaining injury. Shirley wasa man of letters, and wrote a tragedy, be-sides the history of the Louisburg expe-dition. He also held a government inthe Bahamas, and was made lieutenant-general. His son, William, was killed atthe defeat of Braddock. Thomas Pownall superseded GovernorShirley, in 1757-58, as governor. Heoccupied the chair only three years. He made a popular andmagistrate, contrast
. Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston. amilies. Theterrific earthquake of 1755 shook the townto its foundations, and filled the streets with the debris of ruinedhouses, about fifteen hundred sustaining injury. Shirley wasa man of letters, and wrote a tragedy, be-sides the history of the Louisburg expe-dition. He also held a government inthe Bahamas, and was made lieutenant-general. His son, William, was killed atthe defeat of Braddock. Thomas Pownall superseded GovernorShirley, in 1757-58, as governor. Heoccupied the chair only three years. He made a popular andmagistrate, contrasting favorably with thedark, intriguing Lieutenant-GovernorHutchinson. The great and disastrousfire of March 20, 1760, occurred beforethe departure of the governor to assumethe government of South Carolina; alsothe organization and refitting of the landand naval forces, under General Amherst,for the reduction of Quebec and Pownall was a stanch friend of the Colonies, evenafter hostilities commenced with the mother country. No in-. enlightened chief
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