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

Thus did the God of Heaven bless the unwearied Applications of Sir William Phips, for the restoring of Peace unto New-England, when the Country was quite out of Breath, in its Endeavours for its own Preservation, from the continual out-rages of an inaccessible Enemy, and by the Poverty coming in, so like an armed Man from the unsuccessfulness of their former Armies, that it could not imagine, how to take one step further in it's Wars. The most Happy Respite of Peace beyond Merrimack-River being thus procured, the Governor immediately set himself to use all possible Methods, that it might be Peace, like a River, nothing short of Everlasting.

Thus did the God of Heaven bless the unwearied Applications of Sir William Phips, for the restoring of Peace unto New-England, when the Country was quite out of Breath, in its Endeavours for its own Preservation, from the continual out-rages of an inaccessible Enemy, and by the Poverty coming in, so like an armed Man from the unsuccessfulness of their former Armies, that it could not imagine, how to take one step further in it's Wars. The most Happy Respite of Peace beyond Merimack-River being thus procured, the Governour immediately set himself to use all possible Methods, that it might be Peace, like a River, nothing short of Everlasting.

He therefore prevailed with Two or Three Gentlemen to join with him, in sending a Supply of Necessaries for Life, unto the Indians, until the General Assembly could come together to settle the Indian-Trade for the Advantage of the Public, that the Indians might not by Necessity be driven again, to become a French Propriety; although by this Action, as the Gentlemen themselves were great Losers in their Estates, thus He Himself declared unto the Members of the General Assembly, that he would upon Oath, give an Account unto them of all his own Gains, and count himself a Gainer, if in lieu of all, they would ⟨p. 86⟩give him one Beaver-Hat. The same Generosity also caused him to take many a tedious Voyage, accompanied sometimes with his Fidus Achates and very Dear Friend, Kinsman and Neighbour, Colonel John Philips, between Boston and Pemaquid; and this in the bitter Weeks of the New-English, which is almost a Russian Winter.