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THB1734 Sir William Pepperrell Signed Document Mentions Captain William Wentworth
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1734 Sir William Pepperrell Signed Business Document Mentions the Ship's Master Captain William Wentworth
SIR WILLIAM PEPPERRELL, 1st Baronet (1696-1759). Merchant and Major General in Colonial Massachusetts, widely remembered for organizing, financing, and leading the 1745 military Expedition that Captured the French garrison at Fortress Louisbourg during King George's War.
December 9, 1734-Dated Colonial Era, Manuscript Document Signed, "W Pepperell", measuring 7.25" x 12", 2 pages, Piscataqua, New England, on Handmade laid watermarked "Crown over GR" period paper, Fine. This being a business Document involving the sale various goods such as Canvis (sic) Gun Powder and with ten or twenty Tonns (sic) of the "Kings Salt" plus other cargo to be quickly sold so that other trade could commence. Mention of the construction of a second sailing ship being built, involving fishing and the future sale of fish. Folds, ink is light yet readable being somewhat faded, minor fold and trivial edge splits do not significantly affect this document. The place called "Piscataqua" is located along the coast where the Piscataqua River that divides New Hampshire and current Maine (part of Massachusetts in 1734) which is the third fastest-flowing navigable river in the world. "Piscataqua" is a Seacoast Abenaki Native American Indian word that means, "place of many fish".
There is also mention of the second Ship, to be for Captain William Wentworth (1705-1767). Per his marriage: 27 August 1729 in Kittery, York, Maine, to Margery Pepperell (1712-1797). Captain William Wentworth was the son of Lieut. Gov. Jonathan Wentworth (the Royalist), and served in military expeditions under his father-in-law Captain Andrew Pepperrell and with his wife's uncle, who here has at the conclusion Signed, "Humbl. Servt: - W Pepperrell".
SIR WILLIAM PEPPERRELL (1696-1759) was a wealthy Kittery, Massachusetts (District of Maine) merchant, ship owner and soldier who organized, financed, and led the 1745 expedition that captured the French fortress at Louisburg, Cape Breton Island, during King George's War, for which he was knighted by the King and commissioned a Colonel in the British Army.
He also served in the Massachusetts General Court and the Governor's Council, and as a Major General responsible for defense of the Maine and New Hampshire frontier during the French and Indian War.
On his death, his vast estate (he was one of the richest men in New England) went to his grandson, who was a Loyalist and later fled America during the Revolutionary War. The Pepperrell estate was confiscated and his properties in Maine and elsewhere were dispersed.
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