Tyler Anglin

 Phips was born on February 2, 1651 in Woolich Maine.  Phips died on February 18, 1651.

 Phips was born in Woolich, Maine which was a remote trading village.  Phips was the youngest of a family of fourteen children.  Phips father died when he was six, and his mother remarried.

 Phips’s father co-owned and operated a trading post plantation where they traded fur and weapons between Wabanski Indians and English Settlers.  It is said that Phips knew his wife, Mary Spencer Hull, before they married because her father and his father did business together.

 Phips did not have much education. It wasn’t until I decided to walk to Boston that I received any type of education.  When I moved to Boston, I received a four year apprenticeship as a ship carpenter.

 Phips became a sea captain and traveled to London in 1683 looking for somebody to sponsor and fund us to go treasure hunting among sunken Spanish ships.  When I became funded, he sailed to the Caribbean where he came across a sunken ship named Conception.  Phips took 210,000 pounds of English treasure. He profited 11,000 and became very wealthy.  After Phips made the discovery, he was knighted and became provost marshal general at Boston.

 Phips became good friends with the president of Harvard, Increase Mather.  I supported Mather in the fight against Sir Edmund Andros for the restoring of the Charter Government.  Phips led the expedition that took Port Royal but he failed to take Quebec and Montreal.  Phips was made Royal governor of Massachusetts. He took office in 1692.

 It does not say much about Phips’s religion but it says that he might have went to Cotton Mathers service in his church.

 Phips arrived in Salem 2 months into the witch trials.  Phips appointed a commission to try those accused of witchcraft.  The commission used spectral evidence to try those accused.  Phips ended up permentatly shutting down the Court of Oyer and Terminer due to both political and personal reasons.  It is said that Phips’s wife was accused of witchcraft which is why he shut down the trials.

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