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William Phips
Sir William Phips was a Maine-born shipbuilder and treasure hunter who was knighted after recovering silver from a Spanish wreck off Hispaniola in 1687. In 1690 he captured Port Royal in Acadia but failed in an attack on Quebec. As the first royal governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay from 1692, he set up the court for the Salem witch trials and later halted it.
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