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6 unusual facts about Thomas Pownall

Boston Port Act

But the Whig opposition soon collected itself, and the bill was fought in its various stages by Edmund Burke, Isaac Barré, Thomas Pownall and others.

Burke's Rangers

Toward the close of the French and Indian war, in 1760, he was commissioned a Major by Gov. Thomas Pownall.

Pownal, Maine

The town was set off and incorporated by the Massachusetts General Court on March 3, 1808, named in honor of former Governor Thomas Pownall, who had died three years before.

Samuel Waldo

Waldo died of apoplexy near present-day Bangor, Maine in 1759 while participating in a military expedition with Governor Thomas Pownall.

Stockton Springs, Maine

Part of the Waldo Patent, it was first settled about 1759, the year Governor Thomas Pownall completed Fort Pownall on Fort Point.

Wiscasset, Maine

In 1760, it was incorporated as Pownalborough after Colonial Governor Thomas Pownall.