Lieutenant General Sir Wm Pepperrell Bart

Inscribed in the plate, l.r.: Engraved by J.C. Buttre; l.c.: From an original full length [coat of arms] life size Portrait in the Gallery of / the Essex Institute Salem Masstts,, deposited by Mr. Geo. A. Ward A.D. 1821. / LIEUTENANT GENERAL / SIR Wm Pepperrell BART. / Born in Kittery, Maine, June 27, 1696, / Died there June 6th 1759. / The only native American ennobled by the British Government for services rendered America. JRR caption laid down b. Probably published in Lillian C. Buttre, The American Portrait Gallery, New York, J.C. Buttre, c.1871-80, v.1, p. 61. Also published in The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, July 1887, opp. p. 97. The Smibert portrait is reproduced in Donald B. Webster, Georgian Canada, 1984, p. 25 (cat. no. 17). Sir William Pepperrell, first Baronet (1696-1759), American merchant-shipowner, commanded the colonial forces that took Louisbourg in 1745.