Show A YANKEE PEERAGE II I I Many noble English families are more I or less affiliated with America but it is I by no means common to find a British peerof highrankr whose ancestors in i I the direct male linewere Yankees Such a personage however is Most Noble Constantinfc of Nor Constantl Phipps marquis 01 I II masdy About the middle of the 17th century I I there dwelt onf the banksof the Kern I bee river in what Is now known as t1 state of Maine a pioneer named Jam s I PhSpus In early life he had been I i I gunsmith but the delights of the wT derness woOed him and fttjiging off th > trammels cmizationj he to owpd the course of the Kenebec until ht ha J reached thefrontier stttlement of Pen acuid HEr he built himself a log hut fished hunted and ed < a free hapy tfft Hither he brought his vt < 0 Massachusetts girl and here on 1 F Vl > 2 1651 wa born to him a son William This WUam wasthe found of thf Phlpps fortunes James Phipps after his wifes death returned to the madding crowd omr u more brmgjna with him Wi n several t ther stalwart backwoods seera sons William was ttr > renticed t ship carpenter A rIght lad wa t industrious and mhitIS with typeof many anotli 1 unkee boy In our own tin I l I s r I uaa save by his natne ItI t md pf anoo 1 fa like u M nt > > e The umenters ap iu ct bc < r j < unit niru carp nttr I ut vu 1 content He Ofltt nor < Bilged al this po lo lea11 vi M i i iidinic 1 ht rta1 mi pert hPJlItI an s i iru iriiies t < h Inllc l < > t 1 that thy mate run a jicTtnet I i tuaK fc > f I iia ihr j int ent irii A c Y 1b 1tlm jhi l s I k abS < this t-his old instut r I l contllI huine fur bflst it ilie i rother h lIa 1 t < n > il him U of tv and th Urn whr v eesate wet lJU tr tI > primval nJd 1 I pune i iii l wouds whil h had 11 d hi hood Gradually IhJ > dn d hI t onsiErld in thus L gr tune On t New I I crs m speltel and infutntc I ztrs h nominated tvern r I smeh anll disrit3 d in Thl ii h ti Sfmt dr lty Wlj11 had thrOlehout hi hlsi ife I ltaiiiig = 11 lhicnl ItS 1 CV I Phil1 adopted his hers C < naiantine tonu I I hipp 1 Ho to Min hy birth < 11 esan his uns retrti > i TI tftn he hetr aZfl1 T K t < d 1 or th into of Massachusetts und a mai < e such 1 rpcf1 ir i kill an I esty lhat pre suit a is 1 ought i r 1 I unun him h > the EnC h court t l i tie > r iiipai Britain i 1 did i tered the hal WAS apw miid Jlr l I cfior ot lrci ind l iri rf ived i t i of baronet l In u > < hi vcranrs I Constantine hpps n 4s levit i I I peerage uT > ifi the ttl > 1 t Ban I grave Aft 1 that the is 1 of tht I i I I w is as rapid as had iIfl I that < founder William Phipps the h i buidfM LorI Mule s soil i > the frt Earl of Aluiart iv arId n i I Constantine S tCond CI i was i lust Mai nils ot Norm ny I It s ortI 1 1 t p tofuirtt Curst I Marouis of v > lla111V in 1 gray Vi i < > t > i mix 1 i > iUlqrra aid bat one i t ti his oi c itor pam JdITICS r1ii > I th h I > n ru isnernuu l alit d < a-lit pioner I I ItI leat It In th gent ratio III 1 the Phlp amd PS old fPl01 Pil the O ip nlr4 103 ias si eed c1 1 I ncrhu f win h > 1 nt T I Iii I I hI b i a chrgymt azI ver 10 j ill ii e ud estats In PICtSo 1 < ti I atfltI UI phe Mi Teorgf fhi Tnl hii f Ltd No r 1 I IId I the tauneh Iid JCII I 1 Maahusetts ha JL < t 1tssed h l j tar |