Show clorial ano aca satt babon released by western newspaper union strenuous Americ nin HEN a german bomb fell on WHEN athe the church of st mary wool boffi in london recently its capio slon had repercussions in america for tt it not only destroyed tile tho church but it niso also blasted into oblivion the dust of a strenuous american whose career won him the right to that characterization two centuries before theodore roosevelt made tile the uso use of the term popular william was ills his name nama or more oc lie cura curatelo tely sir william and ho he was born on february 2 1651 1631 in now the city of dr astol maine but at that time a town in the british colony ot of massachusetts bay ile he was tho the son of a gunsmith who Is described as a mon man in humble circumstances but there wa was nothing humble about the size of ills his family there were 20 26 ch children illren and william was his twenty first conj at the age of 18 william bound himself to a ship carpenter and at tho the end of his term of service went to boston where ho he started out on his amazing career ten years after he left his birthplace ho he was tho the master of his own ship in 1684 he set out to recover the lost Hi treasure suro which lay beneath the clearwaters clear waters of the bahamas in a wrecked spanish galleon ills his first search was a fall failure but three years later under tinder the patronage of the duke of albemarle az jf S 1 ty he recovered bullion coin and plate worth more than a million and a halt half dollars 0 so generous was william and so liberal was he to his sailors that his own share amounted to only as compared to tho the duke of Albe marlea marles king james II 11 who by law was entitled to one tenth of all trea treasure surd discovered by his subjects receive rece ivd nearly and he was so g grateful hateful to the bold young colonial that he made a knight and gave him a commission as high sheriff of new england in 1690 sir william commanded an expedition against the french at port royal koyal in acadia which captured that place and later in the year he was placed at the head of an expedition of 34 vessels manned by 1500 sailors and carrying 1300 new england militia which attempted to take quebec after a siege of several days dais the colonials were forced to withdraw and when nine of his fils ships were liter later wrecked greatly depressed by his failure returned to boston Ijo however wever he did not suffer any loss in prestige for when he be went to england to urge another expedition against canada the king appointed him captain general and governor in chief of the massachusetts day bay colony arrived in boston in may 1692 and immediately asserted his authority by putting an end to the witchcraft nonsense by organizing a special court to pass upon all such cases As a result the jails were soon emptied of accused 0 oi witchcraft but it won the enmity of powerful political and ecclesiastical forces in the colony they began making claims of dishonesty and cruelty against him and in 1694 he was summoned to england to answer to these charges cha ryes assured by crown that he was still in royal favor he was preparing to return to new england to resume his duties as governor when he died suddenly of a malignant fever on february 18 1695 ho he was buried beneath the floor ot of the church of st mary Wool noth and there his fits bones lay for years oil all but forgotten until the explosion of a Gerin german rin bomb reminded his countrymen once more ot of this early day strenuous american 0 0 in his day was wo noted for his height six feet three inches his bis mighty fists and his sense ot of humor while he was short on book learson lears ln he was long 0 on n signs and superstitions bons he bell eyed that seven was his lucky number and since he was the twenty first or the thrice seventh son he believed anet the three sevens gave hini him a triple advantage over other men lie he must have felt assured of that when after one failure he recovered so EO much of the treasure |