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Phips, William (1651-1695)

American colonial governor of Massachusetts, from 1692. In the French and Indian War (the North American branch of the Seven Years' War) he captured Port Royal, Canada, in 1690, but failed in his attack on Québec in 1691.

Phips was born in Pemmaquid, Maine. In 1687 he rescued treasure to the value of £300,000 from a Spanish wreck, and was rewarded for his services with a knighthood and appointed a sheriff of New England. Towards the end of his life he became the first governor of Massachusetts.



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