| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 105.1

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Canada and the United States

Emerson W. Baker and John G. Reid. The New England Knight: Sir William Phips, 1651–1695. Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press. 1998. Pp. xxiv, 359. Cloth $65.00, paper $19.95.

William Phips is uncommonly challenging for biographical study by professional historians. The first half of his short life was spent in illiterate, unchurched, and undocumented obscurity on the Kennebec River frontier, where he had been born. This period becomes about four percent of Emerson W. Baker and John G. Reid's biography only with great diligence and the help of archaeology, genealogy, and Cotton Mather's unreliable, self-interested biography of Phips. His next decade, as a Boston shipwright married above his station to widow Mary Spencer Hull, was punctuated by narrow escapes from Abenaki raiders who disrupted his shipbuilding on the Maine frontier in 1676 and from litigious creditors who descended on him in the wake of that misfortune. . . .

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