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- GLC#
- GLC02468.20-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 15 June 1692
- Author/Creator
- Phips, William, 1651-1695
- Title
- [Commission of Penn Townsend as captain of a foot company in the Boston militia].
- Place Written
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Pagination
- Primary time period
- Colonization and Settlement, 1585-1763
- Sub-Era
- The Thirteen Colonies
Countersigned by Secretary of the Province Isaac Addington. Townsend was a merchant in Boston who was active in the administration of the province. Signed as first Royal Governor of Massachusetts. 1 seated black and white engraving of Sir William Phips.
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