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Pownall, Thomas (1722-1805) [Commission for Gamaliel Bradford to serve as Captain of a Company raised to aid in the British invasion of Canada]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01450.650 Author/Creator: Pownall, Thomas (1722-1805) Place Written: Boston, Massachusetts Type: Document signed Date: 13 March 1758 Pagination: 1 p. : vellum ; 29.1 x 32.6 cm. Order a Copy

Pownall, Royal Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, commissions Bradford to lead a Company of soldiers in a regiment commanded by Colonel Thomas Doty during the 1758 British invasion of French Canada.

Clarke, Thomas, fl. 1758-1760
Pownall, Thomas, 1722-1805
Doty, Thomas, fl. 1758

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