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Sir William Phips (or Phipps; February 2, 1651 – February 18, 1695) was born in Maine in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and was of humble origin, uneducated, and fatherless from a young age but rapidly advanced from shepherd boy to shipwright, ship's captain, and treasure hunter, the first New England native to be knighted, and the first ...
In American colonies: Competing claims in North America. …fleet of 34 ships under Sir William Phips which disastrously failed to take Quebec. The final Treaty of Rijswijk left matters just as they had previously stood.
Jan 21, 2008 · Sir William Phips, adventurer, colonial governor (b near Kennebec, Maine 2 Feb 1650/51; d at London, Eng 18 Feb 1694/95).
Sir William Phips. The New England-born, Swashbuckling, Royal Governour (1691-94) Confidant of Increase and Cotton Mather, Member of the Second (‘Old North’) Church. No one of our early colonial writers shapes a biography more intriguingly than Cotton Mather, the third minister of the Second ‘Old North’ Church in Boston.
On September 29, William Phips returned from a trip to the Maine frontier, horrified to learn his wife Mary had been cried out as a witch. He found Boston “in a strange ferment of dissatisfaction.”
William Phips was born on February 2, 1651 in the then remote trading village of Woolwich, Maine. Though most historical accounts, including Cotton Mather's biography, traditionally viewed Phips' upbringing as socially disadvantaged, there is now evidence that his family was moderately prosperous.
Sir William Phips was a New England-born adventurer par excellence, a treasure hunter who actually found treasure. His discovery resulted in his knighthood and appointment as a major general and the first royal governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay.
