The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . , in March, 1841, the ship hewas on, the President, foundered, and all on boardwere lost. His favorite plays were The NervousMan and Man of Nerve and Rory OMore. Hewas, the author of Impressions of America (1835)and other works. POWER OF ATTORNEY. See Attorney,Vol. Ill, p. 62. POWHATAN (1550-1618). See Smith, , p. 175. POWNAL, a village of Bennington County,southwestern Vermont, on the Hoosac River, andon the Fitchburg railroad, nine miles S. of Ben-nington. It contains the Rural Home School forboys
The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . , in March, 1841, the ship hewas on, the President, foundered, and all on boardwere lost. His favorite plays were The NervousMan and Man of Nerve and Rory OMore. Hewas, the author of Impressions of America (1835)and other works. POWER OF ATTORNEY. See Attorney,Vol. Ill, p. 62. POWHATAN (1550-1618). See Smith, , p. 175. POWNAL, a village of Bennington County,southwestern Vermont, on the Hoosac River, andon the Fitchburg railroad, nine miles S. of Ben-nington. It contains the Rural Home School forboys, and a manufactory of cotton and woolengoods. In the township is the hamlet of NorthPownal. Population of township 1900, 1,976. POWNALL, Thomas, a Massachusetts colonialgovernor; born in Lincoln, England, in 1720. In753 he accompanied Sir Danvers Osborn, govern-or of New York, as private secretary; in 1755-56was lieutenant-governor of New Jersey; and in1756-58 governor of Massachusetts. He returnedto England in 1760, and became a member ofParliament. He was an opponent of the Stamp. EDWARD J. POYNTER. Act, and favored an early peace with the Americancolonies. He retired from public life in published a number of works which werewidely read on account of the intimate knowledgeof their author of his subject. Among them areThe Administration of the Colonies (1764); Descrip-tion of the Middle States of America (1776); andState of Affairs Between the Old and New World(1780). He died in Bath, Feb. 26, 1805. POYNTER, Edward John, a British artist; bornin Paris, March 20, 1836; the son of Ambrose Poyn-ter, the architect, andgreat-grandson of ThomasBanks, , sculptor. Hereceived his education atWestminster school,Brigh-ton College, and Ipswichgrammar-school; and stud-ied art in the Englishschools. On account ofdelicate health he was sentfor the winter of 1852-53to Madeira, and it wasduring his stay there thathe developed an earnestdesire to become an winter he was
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