Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . tions, 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 Thomas Pownall superseded GovernorShirley, in 1757-58, as governor.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 andenlightened chief magistrate, contrasting favorably with thedark, intriguing Lieutenant-
Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . tions, 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 Thomas Pownall superseded GovernorShirley, in 1757-58, as governor.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 andenlightened chief magistrate, contrasting favorably with thedark, intriguing Lieutenant-GovernorHutchinson. The great and disastrousfire of March 20, 1760, occurred before Sj8/®SyiH|^^^Si| the departure of the governor to assumeJ(Cl~v ~~^~QI i] government of South Carolina; also^^A^M^^^Wi the organization and refitting of the landWSOzr and 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-.
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