The history and antiquities of Boston .. . ^ C ( / hr//- r-//A ( //// ./. //////////^/^ \k\vE. \ g7^^ //r/7m^ ^ 1760-1.] DEATH OF THE KING. 055 As before remarked, the administration of Governor Pownall, thoughshort, was highly pleasing to the majority of the Province. While herehe took great pains to gain information respecting the country, histori-cal, geographical and statistical. After his return to England, he pub-lished several able works on the Colonies, which were the result of hisacquaintance with them.* Between seven and eight oclock in the morning of the 25th? of October, died Georg
The history and antiquities of Boston .. . ^ C ( / hr//- r-//A ( //// ./. //////////^/^ \k\vE. \ g7^^ //r/7m^ ^ 1760-1.] DEATH OF THE KING. 055 As before remarked, the administration of Governor Pownall, thoughshort, was highly pleasing to the majority of the Province. While herehe took great pains to gain information respecting the country, histori-cal, geographical and statistical. After his return to England, he pub-lished several able works on the Colonies, which were the result of hisacquaintance with them.* Between seven and eight oclock in the morning of the 25th? of October, died George the Second. He was suddenly seized,at his Palace at Kensington, by a violent disorder, when he fell speech-less, and, notwithstanding every medical aid, almost immediatelyexpired, in the 77th year of his age, and 34th of his reign. f Andon the following day, about noon, his grandson, George, son ofFrederick Lewis, Prince of Wales, was proclaimed King, asGeorge the Third. The news of the death of the King was not received in Boston tillDecember the 25th, just two
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