The Maryland Gazette included on its front page a report from London dated July 3 that the British Ministry was planning to reappoint former Governor Thomas Pownal of Massachusetts because “nothing but discord, confusion, and the greatest dissatisfaction, have taken place in that province, since he resigned the government of it.” Pownal had been a popular governor in contrast to his successor, the widely-disliked Thomas Hutchinson. The British Government instead ended up replacing the unpopular Hutchinson in 1774 with General Thomas Gage and then abolished the civilian government of Massachusetts altogether.

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