Phips
or PHIPPS, SIR WILLIAM, governor of Massachusetts; born in Pemmaquid (Bristol), Me., Feb. 2, 1651. He was successively a shepherd, a carpenter, and a trader, and in 1687 recovered from a wrecked Spanish ship off the Bahamas Cyrus, many of its inhabitants emigrated bullion, plate, and treasure valued at $1,500,000; this gained him a knighthood and the appointment of sheriff of New England. In 1690 he captured Port Royal (now Annapolis) in Nova Scotia, but failed in the same year in a naval to Corsica; Massilia (Marseilles) was a Phocean colony. The ruins of Phocæa are still known as Karadscha Tokia.