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Welcome to the Pirate History Podcast. Today we're going to be talking about

William Phipps. That's a name that many of you are probably already familiar with.

Maybe not super familiar, but a lot of you probably just went,

Oh, okay. Wait, who is that again?

Many of us learned this name when we first learned about the Salem witch trials.

William Phipps was the governor of Massachusetts at the time.

That's what he's most famous for, but during his

lifetime he was renowned for a career full of naval and military successes. But his early years were a bit less grand and a bit more scurrilous.

This is

William Phipps was born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the province of Maine

in 1651.

Discussing Phipp's early life is troublesome.

Most of what we have comes from the pin of Cotton Mather, one of the most famed Puritan

wordsmiths of all time.

Mather was a pamphleteer and a historian and a journalist and a biographer and a propagandist.

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