History of the United States. Written for the Chautauqua Reading Circles
History of the United States. Written for the Chautauqua Reading Circles
Edward Everett Hale
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Sir William Phips is a romantic figure in the history of this period. Born in 1650, in a little settlement on the Kennebec River, one of twenty-six children by one mother, he received little or no education. He passed his youth in farm labor. On attaining manhood, however, he became a ship-carpenter, moved down to Boston, married a widow older and richer than himself, learned to read and write, and became confident of rising in the world, though still at a loss as to the exact means. About this... time his mind became full of a sufficiently wild project for going to the West Indies in search of a sunk- en Spanish ship laden with silver, which had been wrecked some half a century before. He carried this scheme through. He went to England, obtained by some means a king's ship, and after one unsuccessful attempt obtained the treasure, worth a million and a half dollars in the value of money in that day. With this he returned to England, where he was knight- ed and offered a position in the royal navy.
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