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[82] The Third Expedition, Eaft. 



HTM lis was in the Year 1692. In the time of Sir Wil- 

 Ham P flip's 170 Government: Major W alley 171 being at 



tain Skerburn, and Captain Walten 

 (Convers lying Sick all Summer had 

 this to make him yet more Sick that 

 he could have no part in thefe Actions) 

 who landing at Macquoit, marched up 

 to Pechypfcot, but not finding any 

 figns of the enemy, marched down 

 again. While the Commanders were 

 waiting AJJiore till the Soldiers were got 

 aboard, fuch great Numbers of Indians 

 poured in upon them, that tho' the Com- 

 manders wanted not for Courage or 

 Conduct, yet they found themfelves 

 obliged, with much ado, (and not with- 

 out the Death of worthy Captain Sker- 

 burn) to retire into the Veffels which 

 then lay aground. Here they kept pelt- 

 ing at one another all Night; but unto 

 little other purpofe than this, which was 

 indeed Remarkable, That the Enemy 

 was at this time going to take the Lie 

 of Shoales, and no doubt had they gone 

 they would have taken it. but having 

 exhaufted all their Ammunition on this 

 Occalion, they defi'ted from what they 

 defigned." \_Magnalia, Book VII: 77.] 

 Sir William Phips (Phipps) was 

 ("on of James, gunfmith, from Briftol, 

 Kng. ; was born at what is now Phipf- 

 biirg, Me.; became a (hip-carpenter; 

 married Mary, widow of John Hull (not 

 the mint-mailer) ; with her money letup 

 a (hipyard at Sheepfcot, and then in Bol- 

 ton when " driven in " by Indian hoftili- 

 tics; thence went to fea, 1677; at the 



Bahamas heard of the wreck of a Span- 

 ifli treafure-laden galleon, and went to 

 England and offered his fervices to the 

 king to recover the gold ; his project 

 was approved, and he went to the fpot 

 with two frigates in 1683 ; failed for 

 want of proper inftruments; returned 

 to England, and perfuaded Monk, Duke 

 of Albemarle, to furniih him for the 

 work again ; went back, filhed up £300,- 

 000, of which £16,000 fell to him, and 

 he was knighted by James II., 28 June, 

 16S7: Andros made him Sheriff of 

 New England; joined Second Church, 

 8 March, 1690; May, 1690, conducted 

 the attack on Nova Scotia; was chofen 

 Affifcant, projected the filly expedition, 

 in the Auguft following, againft Que- 

 bec; went to London, 1691, was ap- 

 pointed Governor on Increafe Mather's 

 recommendation ; arrived back 14 May, 

 1692; fanctioned the witchcraft delu- 

 fion in 1693, flogged Collector William 

 Brenton, and, 1694, caned Capt. Short 

 of the Nonfuch Frigate, and, through 

 the trouble thence arifing, was recalled 

 to London, where he died 18 Feb., 1695, 

 and was buried in St. Mary, Wooliioth, 

 in Lombard St., where John Newton 

 lies. [Savage's Geti. Did. iii : 420: 

 Palfrey's Hiji. N. E. iii: 590; Hutch- 

 infon's Hiji. Mafs. ii : 76; Sparks's 

 Amer. Biog. vii : 5-102 ; Mather's Mag- 

 nolia, Book II: 15-75.] 

 m See note 24, ante. 



