. The New England magazine . others twenty-six children, twenty-one of whom were sons. His father diedwhen he was a child, and young Phipsremained with his mother till he waseighteen, when he left home to learn thetrade of a ship carpenter in a ship yardon the Sheepscot River. Having hadhis business broken up by King Philipswar, Phips went to sea. In one of hisvoyages he learned that a Spanish ship,laden with a valuable freight of silverbullion, had been wrecked and sunk nearthe Bahamas. He persuaded an Englishnobleman to furnish the means to equipa vessel to proceed to the locality underhis c
. The New England magazine . others twenty-six children, twenty-one of whom were sons. His father diedwhen he was a child, and young Phipsremained with his mother till he waseighteen, when he left home to learn thetrade of a ship carpenter in a ship yardon the Sheepscot River. Having hadhis business broken up by King Philipswar, Phips went to sea. In one of hisvoyages he learned that a Spanish ship,laden with a valuable freight of silverbullion, had been wrecked and sunk nearthe Bahamas. He persuaded an Englishnobleman to furnish the means to equipa vessel to proceed to the locality underhis charge, and search for the sunkentreasure. Phips was successful in hissearch, and his share of the treasure re-covered was $70,000. Returning toBoston, he took a prominent part inpublic affairs, and was appointed in 1690to the command of the expedition fittedout to recover Nova Scotia. In twomonths Sir William captured Port Royal,and took possession of all the Frenchsettlements as far as the Penobscot. 554 THE STATE OF After this success, Phips was sent toLondon to solicit tlie kings assistance inanother expedition, and while there re-ceived the appointment of royal governorof united Massachusetts and Maine, en-tering upon his duties in 1692. He diedin February, 1695, at the comparativelyearly age of forty-five, having made a re-putation as a soldier and statesman, whichplaced his name among the first of the dis-tinguished men who laid the foundationsof prosperity and good government inMaine. Sir William Pepperell com-manded the land force which reducedthe French fortress of Louisburg, on the island of Cape Breton, in 1744, and com-pelled the surrender to the Fnglish ofthis important key to French dominionin North America. He died at his seatin Kittery, July 6, 1759, ^^ the age ofsixty-five, greatly mourned in the people of Maine were in fullsympathy, and heartily co-operated withtheir brethren of Massachusetts properall through the controversy between theco
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