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Ep 1: Kittery Sailor to Portsmouth Merchant – William Whipple
What’s up, you magnificent bastards? 👊 Episode 1 of The Sea Captain General — our 4-part deep dive into Brother William Whipple.
The Kittery sailor who rose from cabin boy to ship’s master, commanded vessels through Atlantic gales and privateer threats, engaged in the triangular trade, then settled as a Portsmouth merchant and joined St. John’s Lodge No. 1 right as revolution brewed.
We walk the honest grind: hardscrabble seafaring roots on the Piscataqua, brutal years at sea learning command the hard way, the contradictions of slave trading alongside the liberty he would later sign for, and…
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