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Sir William Pepperrell of Kittery Point, Maine (1696-1759), was perhaps the most famous colonial hero few people remember. It is said that when George Washington was a boy, he wanted to be Sir William Pepperrell. Husband, father, the richest man in colonial America, land baron, ship builder, judge, military hero, politician, owner of enslaved people. This is his unvarnished story.
This is the intro for Sir William Pepperrell: His Unvarnished Story a video created, and released on YouTube, by Jim White of Spruce Creek TV.
6 July 1759 Kittery, York in his 63rd year, notice in the New York - Mercury. [2]
Written fourth Day of July 1759. To wife Mary the Income of the Half of my real Estate to Hold for the Term of her natural Life. Named Daughter Elizabeth Sparhawk. Grandson William Pepperrell Sparhawk. Grandson Andrew Pepperrell Sparhawk. Grandson Nathaniel Sparhawk Jr. Grandson Samuel Hirst Sparhawk. Son in Law Nathaniel Sparhawk Esq. Sister Miriam Tyler. Sister Dorothy Newmarch. Sister Mary Prescot. Sister Margery Gunnison. Kinsmen Iohn & Andrew Philips. kinswoman Sarah Frost my Dec'd Brother's eldest Daughter. Children of my kinswoman Margery Wentworth Dec'd et al. Nominated Wife Mary, Jeremiah Moulton Jr Esq. & Mr Benjamin Greenleaf, Executors. Probated 24 July 1759; 14 July 1759 Mr. Greenleaf declines the trust. [3]
He is widely remembered for organizing, financing, and leading the 1745 expedition that captured the French garrison at Fortress Louisbourg during King George's War.[4]
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The profile Pepperrell-2 was an orphan profile that I have adopted as part of my Pepperrell Surname Study.