The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-06

CQulNUlcnI W lncU HI WIS W lllNlO, one OF III
youngest, whom his father, dying. left yourr vI,h
HIS mother, and with her he lived. kcepinv H.,
sheen In the wilderness until he was Is veor,
old; at which time he began to feel some luru,o.
dispositions OF mind from that providence az Goi
which took him from tho sheepfold. from fol
lowing the ewes great with young. and brouuh,
him to feed his people. His friends carnos,,,
solicited him to settle among them In n pI,n,,.
tion OF tho East; but he had nm unacconntohI.
impulse upon his mind persuading him ns IA,
would privately hint unto somo Of them. Inn,
no was born to greater matters. His frs, co>
trivance was to bind himself nm apprentice,
unto q ship carpenter for four years; in which
time he became n master of tho trodo,
he then bctook himself an hundred and m,
miles further afeld, oven to Boston. tho chic,
town Of New England, which. being a place nj,
the most business and resort in those part. o,
the world. he expected there more commodlop..
ly to pursue the hope which had inspired him.
At Boston. where 1t was he now learned frat
of all to read and write. he followed nj,
trade for about a year, and by n laudable do
portmen 80 recommended himself that he mar
ried a young gentlewomnn Of good repute. who
was the widow Of one Mr.. John Hull, n well.
bred merchant, but the daughter OF one Can't.
Roger Spencer, n person Of good fashion.
. . = Within a little while after this mar
ringo he tPhippsl indented with several per.
sons in Boston to build them q ship at Sleeps.
Coat River, two or three leagues eastward q,
Kcnnebcc; where. having launched the ship, he
also provided a lading of lumber to bring with
him which would have been to the advantage O,
all concerned. But. Just as the ship was hardly
finished, the barbarous Indians on that river
broke forth into an open and cruel war upon tho
English; and the miserable people. surprised by
so sudden a storm OF blood, had no refuge from
the inhdels but the ship now finishing in tho
harbor. Whercupon he left his intended ladinR
behind him. and, instead thereof, carried
with him his old neighbors and their fam.
lilies. free Of all charges. to Boston;
but the disappointment which befel him
from the loss of his lading plunged his Affairs
into cmbarrassments with such as had en-.
ployed him." Cotton Mather goes on 10 say
that the subject Of his narrative was hitherto
no moro than beginning to make scafoldinEs
for further and higher actions. He would
frequently tell the gentlewoman. his wife, that
he should yet be Captain Of a Kings ship: that
he should come to have the Command Of better
men than he is now accounted himself; and that
he should be owner OF a fair brick house in the
Green Lane OF North Boston; and that 1t may 10
this would not be all that the providence Of God
would bring to him. She entertained these pas
sages with n sufficient Incredibly: but he had
SO serious and positive an expectation Of them
that 1t is not easy to say what was tho
| original tnereOI. Being thus OF the true
temper for doing of great things, he bctakes
himself to the sea, the right scene for such
things; and. upon advice Of n Spanish wreck
about the Bahamas. he took a voyage thither:
but with little more success than what lust
served him a little to furnish him for a voyage 70
England: whittier he went in a vessel not much
unlike that which the Dutchmen stamped on
their first coins. Having first informed himself
that there was another Spanish wreck wherein
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covered. he had a strong impression upon his
mind that he must be the discoverer; and he
made such representations of his design
at Whitehall that, by the year 1853,
he became the Captain OF a Kings ship,
and arrived at New England commander
of the Algier Rose, a frigate of eighteen guns
and ninety-fvc men. With a small
company of other men he sailed thence to His
PAMELA, where. by the policy of his address, he
fshed out OF n very old Spaninrd Tor Portuguese
a little advice about the true spot which he had
been hitherto seeking; that 1t was upon a reef
of shoals a few leagues 10 the northward OF Port
de la Plata, upon Hispaniola. a port SO called, It
seems, from tho landing Of some OF the ship
wrecked company with a boat full of plate saved
out Of their sinking frisate. Nevertheless. when
he had searched very narrowly the spot whereof
the old Spaniard had advised him. he had not
hitherto exactly Lit upon II. Such thorns
eAN - Ale - uilV nc "hs IN Inc ROSS
frigatc: but none OF all these things
could refund the edge OF his expectation to find
the wreck: with such expectation he returned
then into England that he might there better
furnish himself to prosecute n new discovery,
for, though he judged lie might, by proceeding q
little further, have come at the right spot, vet
he found his present company too i'll a crew 10
be conided in" We are told that. in England.
SO proper was his behavior that the best noble
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conversation, and. although he was opposed by
powerful enemies. he at length overcame the
difficulties that had been thrown in his way, and
prevailed upon the Duke Of Albemarlc and some
other persons of quality to Mt him out. Return
ing to Hispaniola, he eventually found the
wreck, through the services Of a diver, and
brought up from 1t no less than thirty-two tons
of silver. Here we recur to Mather's narratives:
There was one extraordinary distress which
Capt. Phipps now found himself plunged into.
His men were come out with him upon seamenS
wages, at so much per month, but when they
saw such vast filters OF silver sows and pigs. az
they call them, come on board at the Captains
call. they knew not how to bear IL that they
should not share all among themselves, and 10
gone to lead a short life and a merry In a
climate where the arrest OF those that had hired
them should not reach Them A compromise
was effected with the seamen, the effect OF which
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Capt. Phipps now coming up TO London in the
year 1887, with near $500. 900 aboard, did acQuit
himself with such an exemplary honesty that
partly by his fulfilling his assurances to the sea-
men. and partly by his exact and p%unctual care
to have his employers detrauded OF nothing that
might conscientiously belong unto them. he had
less than sl6.O0o left unto himself; as an 40
knowledgment OF which honesty in him the Duke
of Albermarle made unto his wife. whom he never
| anN n praspTA nf n Dp11sp MN naarn tbnusanA
pounds in value. The character OF an honest
man he tPhippsl had 80 merited In the whole
course of his life. and especially in this last act
OF 1t, that this, in conjunction with his other
serviceable qualities, procured him the favors
OF the greatest persons in the nation; and he
that had been so diligcnt in his business must
now stand before kings and not stand before msxn
men. Accordingly. tho King james H.. in con-
sideration OF the service done by him in bringing
aIIch IA Irnnanrc infn ihn nAiinn. Cnnferred nnnn