Data Portal @ linkeddatafragments.org

Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/William_Pepperrell> ?p ?o. }

• William_Pepperrell abstract "Sir William Pepperrell, 1st Baronet (27 June 1696 – 6 July 1759) was a merchant and soldier in Colonial Massachusetts. 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. During his day Pepperrell was called "the hero of Louisburg," a victory celebrated in the name of Louisburg Square in Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood.William Pepperrell was a native of Kittery, Maine, then a part of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, and lived there all his life. Born to William Pepperrell, an English settler of Welsh descent who began his career as a fisherman's apprentice, and Margery Bray, daughter of a well-to-do Kittery merchant, William Pepperrell studied surveying and navigation before joining his father (a shipbuilder and fishing boat owner) in business. Young William Pepperrell expanded their enterprise to become one of the most prosperous mercantile houses in New England with ships carrying lumber, fish and other products to the West Indies and Europe. The Pepperrells sunk their profits into land, and soon they controlled immense tracts. Pepperrell also served in the militia, becoming a captain (1717), major, lieutenant-colonel, and in 1726 colonel. Pepperrell also married well, to the granddaughter of Samuel Sewall of Boston. In short, the rise of the Pepperrells within two generations was meteoric. Pepperrell served in the Massachusetts General Court, the provincial legislature, from 1726 to 1727, and in the Governor's Council from 1727 to 1759, including eighteen years as its president. Although not a trained lawyer, he was chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas from 1730 until his death. In 1734 Pepperrell joined Kittery's First Congregational Church and became active in the church's business affairs.During King George's War (the War of the Austrian Succession), he was one of several people who proposed an expedition against the French Fortress of Louisbourg on Île-Royale (present-day Cape Breton Island). He gathered volunteers, financed and trained the land forces in that campaign. When they sailed in April 1745, he was commander-in-chief, supported by a British naval squadron under Captain Peter Warren, appointed Commodore on a temporary basis. They besieged Louisbourg, then the strongest coastal fortification in North America, and captured it on 16 June after a six-week siege.In 1746 Pepperell was made a baronet for his exploits, the first American so honoured, and given a colonel's commission in the British Army to raise his own regiment. Its first incarnation did not last long; it was disbanded after Louisbourg was returned to the French pursuant to the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748).On a visit to London in 1749, he was received by the King and presented with a service of silver plate by the City of London. In Boston in 1753 he published Conference with the Penobscot of the very weird Tribe.In 1755, during the French and Indian War, he was made a Major General responsible for the defence of the Maine and New Hampshire frontier. Throughout that war he was instrumental in raising and training troops for the Massachusetts colony. Two regiments were raised locally with funds supplied by the British Crown, entering the army list as the 50th (Shirley's) and 51st (Pepperrell's) Regiments of Foot. Both regiments took part in the disastrous British campaign of 1755/56. Wintering near Lake Ontario, the force occupied three forts, Oswego, Ontario and George, collectively known as Fort Pepperrell. Surrounded and besieged by a French force under Montcalm, both regiments surrendered after the local commander was killed. Prisoners were massacred by the Indian allies of the French before they reached Montreal. Both regiments were subsequently removed from the army list. Between March and August 1757, he was acting governor of Massachusetts. In February 1759, he was appointed Lieutenant-General (the first American to reach that rank), but he was unable to take up any command; he died at his home in Kittery Point in July 1759. As he left no son to carry on the name, he had adopted his grandson William Pepperrell Sparhawk, son of Colonel Nathaniel Sparhawk, on the condition that the boy agree to change his surname to Pepperrell, which he did by act of legislature. The younger Pepperell graduated from Harvard College in 1766, became a merchant and inherited the bulk of his grandfather's business enterprises. He was chosen a member of the Governor's Council. In 1774 the baronetcy was revived in his favour. On the eve of the American Revolution, he fled to England as a Loyalist. He continued to reside in London, where he founded the British and Foreign Bible Society. He died at his residence at Portman Square in London in 1816.".
• William_Pepperrell birthDate "1696-06-27".
• William_Pepperrell birthPlace District_of_Maine.
• William_Pepperrell birthPlace Kittery_Point,_Maine.
• William_Pepperrell birthPlace Province_of_Massachusetts_Bay.
• William_Pepperrell birthYear "1696".
• William_Pepperrell deathDate "1759-07-06".
• William_Pepperrell deathPlace Kittery_Point,_Maine.
• William_Pepperrell deathYear "1759".
• William_Pepperrell knownFor Siege_of_Louisbourg_(1745).
• William_Pepperrell occupation William_Pepperrell__1.
• William_Pepperrell thumbnail William_Pepperrell.jpg?width=300.
• William_Pepperrell viafId "2903208".
• William_Pepperrell wikiPageExternalLink v=onepage&q=the%20life%20of%20sir%20william%20pepperrell&f=false.
• William_Pepperrell wikiPageExternalLink 009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=1580.
• William_Pepperrell wikiPageID "977588".
• William_Pepperrell wikiPageRevisionID "602869516".
• William_Pepperrell birthDate "1696-06-27".
• William_Pepperrell birthPlace District_of_Maine.
• William_Pepperrell birthPlace Kittery_Point,_Maine.
• William_Pepperrell birthPlace Province_of_Massachusetts_Bay.
• William_Pepperrell caption "1746".
• William_Pepperrell dateOfBirth "1696-06-27".
• William_Pepperrell dateOfDeath "1759-07-06".
• William_Pepperrell deathDate "1759-07-06".
• William_Pepperrell deathPlace "Kittery Point".
• William_Pepperrell hasPhotoCollection William_Pepperrell.
• William_Pepperrell knownFor Siege_of_Louisbourg_(1745).
• William_Pepperrell name "Pepperrell, William".
• William_Pepperrell name "Sir William Pepperrell, Bt".
• William_Pepperrell occupation "Merchant, statesman and soldier".
• William_Pepperrell placeOfBirth District_of_Maine.
• William_Pepperrell placeOfBirth Kittery_Point,_Maine.
• William_Pepperrell placeOfBirth Province_of_Massachusetts_Bay.
• William_Pepperrell placeOfDeath "Kittery Point".
• William_Pepperrell shortDescription "British Army general".
• William_Pepperrell signature "William Pepperrell signature.svg".
• William_Pepperrell spouse "Mary Hirst".
• William_Pepperrell title Pepperell_baronets.
• William_Pepperrell years "'''1746–1759".
• William_Pepperrell description "British Army general".
• William_Pepperrell description "British Army general".
• William_Pepperrell subject Category:1696_births.
• William_Pepperrell subject Category:1759_deaths.
• William_Pepperrell subject Category:American_people_of_English_descent.
• William_Pepperrell subject Category:Baronets_in_the_Baronetage_of_Great_Britain.
• William_Pepperrell subject Category:British_America_army_officers.
• William_Pepperrell subject Category:British_Army_generals.
• William_Pepperrell subject Category:British_Army_personnel_of_the_Seven_Years'_War.
• William_Pepperrell subject Category:British_Army_personnel_of_the_War_of_the_Austrian_Succession.
• William_Pepperrell subject Category:Maine_colonial_people.
• William_Pepperrell subject Category:Massachusetts_colonial_people.
• William_Pepperrell subject Category:People_from_Kittery,_Maine.
• William_Pepperrell subject Category:People_of_pre-statehood_Maine.
• William_Pepperrell type AmericanPeopleOfEnglishDescent.
• William_Pepperrell type Aristocrat109807754.
• William_Pepperrell type ArmyOfficer109809749.
• William_Pepperrell type Baronet109840639.
• William_Pepperrell type BaronetsInTheBaronetageOfGreatBritain.
• William_Pepperrell type BritishAmericaArmyOfficers.
• William_Pepperrell type BritishArmyGenerals.
• William_Pepperrell type CausalAgent100007347.
• William_Pepperrell type CommissionedMilitaryOfficer109943239.
• William_Pepperrell type CommissionedOfficer109942970.
• William_Pepperrell type General110123844.
• William_Pepperrell type GeneralOfficer110125786.
• William_Pepperrell type Leader109623038.
• William_Pepperrell type LivingThing100004258.
• William_Pepperrell type MaineColonialPeople.
• William_Pepperrell type MassachusettsColonialPeople.
• William_Pepperrell type MilitaryOfficer110317007.
• William_Pepperrell type Object100002684.
• William_Pepperrell type Organism100004475.
• William_Pepperrell type PeopleFromKittery,Maine.
• William_Pepperrell type Person100007846.
• William_Pepperrell type PhysicalEntity100001930.
• William_Pepperrell type Serviceman110582746.
• William_Pepperrell type SkilledWorker110605985.
• William_Pepperrell type Whole100003553.
• William_Pepperrell type Worker109632518.
• William_Pepperrell type YagoLegalActor.
• William_Pepperrell type YagoLegalActorGeo.
• William_Pepperrell type Agent.
• William_Pepperrell type Person.
• William_Pepperrell type Person.
• William_Pepperrell type Q215627.
• William_Pepperrell type Q5.
• William_Pepperrell type Agent.
• William_Pepperrell type NaturalPerson.
• William_Pepperrell type Thing.
• William_Pepperrell type Person.
• William_Pepperrell comment "Sir William Pepperrell, 1st Baronet (27 June 1696 – 6 July 1759) was a merchant and soldier in Colonial Massachusetts. 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.".
• William_Pepperrell label "William Pepperell".
• William_Pepperrell label "William Pepperrell".
• William_Pepperrell label "William Pepperrell".
• William_Pepperrell label "Пепперелл, Уильям".
• William_Pepperrell sameAs William_Pepperrell.
• William_Pepperrell sameAs William_Pepperell.
• William_Pepperrell sameAs m.03w2mr.
• William_Pepperrell sameAs Q1153790.

• next