{{Short description|British politician}} {{moresources|date=February 2019}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2019}} {{Use Indian English|date=February 2019}} '''John Burniston''' was the Deputy Governor of Bombay<ref name="Stern2011">{{cite book|last=Stern|first=Philip J.|title=The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JWjXUXqfCnwC&pg=PA167|accessdate=14 October 2017|date=2011-04-22|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780199875184|page=167}}</ref> from 1690 to 1704.
He left a widow named Carolina. One of their daughters was Sarah, wife of William Pownall and mother of Thomas Pownall, governor of Massachusetts Bay and South Carolina.<ref>Edward J. Davies, "Further Notes on Governor Thomas<sup>1</sup> Pownall", ''The American Genealogist'', 77(2002):190–94.</ref>
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