Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Sir William Phips (or Phipps; February 2, 1651 – February 18, 1695) was a shepherd boy, a shipwright, ship's captain, treasure hunter, a major general, and the first royally appointed governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay. He is perhaps best remembered for establishing, and later over-ruling and disbanding, the court associated with the infamous Salem Witch Trials.Of humble origin, uneducated, and fatherless from a young age, he watched over his family's flock of sheep before apprenticing to a shipbuilder near his home in Maine. He moved to Boston to start a business building ships and soon began to embark on treasure hunting expeditions to the West Indies. He became famous in London and Boston when he recovered a large treasure from a sunken Spanish galleon, a feat that earned him instant wealth and a knighthood. In 1690, during King William's War, he was made a Major General the same day he was first allowed to vote, and he led a successful military expedition against the capital of Acadia, Port Royal, followed by unsuccessful attempt to capture Quebec.Two years later Phips become governor by successfully striding a middle position that cultivated a strong connection to the powerful New England clergyman, Increase Mather, as well as Mather's royalist opposition on the Board of Trade. Phips and Mather arrived back in Massachusetts Bay at the height of the witchcraft delusion. Taking a middle position was no longer tenable for Phips and he became enmeshed in controversies that led to his recall to England to answer a variety of charges. He died in London at the age of 44 before the charges against him could be heard."@en }
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- William_Phips abstract "Sir William Phips (or Phipps; February 2, 1651 – February 18, 1695) was a shepherd boy, a shipwright, ship's captain, treasure hunter, a major general, and the first royally appointed governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay. He is perhaps best remembered for establishing, and later over-ruling and disbanding, the court associated with the infamous Salem Witch Trials.Of humble origin, uneducated, and fatherless from a young age, he watched over his family's flock of sheep before apprenticing to a shipbuilder near his home in Maine. He moved to Boston to start a business building ships and soon began to embark on treasure hunting expeditions to the West Indies. He became famous in London and Boston when he recovered a large treasure from a sunken Spanish galleon, a feat that earned him instant wealth and a knighthood. In 1690, during King William's War, he was made a Major General the same day he was first allowed to vote, and he led a successful military expedition against the capital of Acadia, Port Royal, followed by unsuccessful attempt to capture Quebec.Two years later Phips become governor by successfully striding a middle position that cultivated a strong connection to the powerful New England clergyman, Increase Mather, as well as Mather's royalist opposition on the Board of Trade. Phips and Mather arrived back in Massachusetts Bay at the height of the witchcraft delusion. Taking a middle position was no longer tenable for Phips and he became enmeshed in controversies that led to his recall to England to answer a variety of charges. He died in London at the age of 44 before the charges against him could be heard.".
- Q1896325 abstract "Sir William Phips (or Phipps; February 2, 1651 – February 18, 1695) was a shepherd boy, a shipwright, ship's captain, treasure hunter, a major general, and the first royally appointed governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay. He is perhaps best remembered for establishing, and later over-ruling and disbanding, the court associated with the infamous Salem Witch Trials.Of humble origin, uneducated, and fatherless from a young age, he watched over his family's flock of sheep before apprenticing to a shipbuilder near his home in Maine. He moved to Boston to start a business building ships and soon began to embark on treasure hunting expeditions to the West Indies. He became famous in London and Boston when he recovered a large treasure from a sunken Spanish galleon, a feat that earned him instant wealth and a knighthood. In 1690, during King William's War, he was made a Major General the same day he was first allowed to vote, and he led a successful military expedition against the capital of Acadia, Port Royal, followed by unsuccessful attempt to capture Quebec.Two years later Phips become governor by successfully striding a middle position that cultivated a strong connection to the powerful New England clergyman, Increase Mather, as well as Mather's royalist opposition on the Board of Trade. Phips and Mather arrived back in Massachusetts Bay at the height of the witchcraft delusion. Taking a middle position was no longer tenable for Phips and he became enmeshed in controversies that led to his recall to England to answer a variety of charges. He died in London at the age of 44 before the charges against him could be heard.".