Pietas in patriam the life of His Excellency Sir William Phips, Knt. late Captain…

AS one of the first Actions done by Sir William, after he came to the Age of Doing, was to save the Lives of many poor People from the Rage of the Diabolical Indians in the Eastern Parts of the Country, so now he was come to the Government, his Mind was very vehemently set upon recovering of those Parts, from the Miseries, which a New and a Long War of the Indians had brought upon them. His Birth and Youth, in the East, had rendered him well known unto the Indians there; he had Hunted, and Fished many a weary Day, in his Childhood with them; and when those rude Savages had got the Story by the End, that he had found a Ship full of Money, and was know become all-one-a-King! They were mightily astonished at it: But when they farther understood that he was become the Governor of New-England, it added a further Degree of Consternation to their Astonishment. He likewise was better acquainted with the Situation of those Regions, than most other Men; and he considered what vast Advantages might arise, to no less, than the whole English Nation, from the Lumber, and Fishery and Naval-stores, which those Regions might soon supply the whole Nation withal, if once they were well settled with good Inhabitants.

AS one of the first Actions done by Sir William, after he came to the Age of Doing, was to save the Lives of many poor People from the Rage of the Diabolical Indians in the Eastern Parts of the Country, so now he was come to the Government, his Mind was very vehemently set upon recovering of those Parts, from the Miseries, which a New and a Long War of the Indians had brought upon them. His Birth and Youth, in the East, had rendred him well known unto the Indians there; he had Hunted, and Fished many a weary Day, in his Childhood with them; and when those rude Savages had got the Story by the End, that he had found a Ship full of Money, and was know become all-one-a-King! They were mightily astonished at it: But when they farther understood that he was become the Governour of New-England, it added a further Degree of Consternation to their Astonishment. He likewise was better acquainted with the Scituation of those Regions, than most other Men; and he consider'd what vast Advantages might arise, to no less, than the whole English Nation, from the Lumber, and Fishery and Naval-stores, which those Regions might soon supply the whole Nation withal, if once they were well settled with good Inhabitants.