pepperel

Updated: June 19, 2025

Pepperel, a trader of Piscataquay, whose influence was extensive in that country; though he was a man of little or no education, and utterly unacquainted with military operations. In April Mr. Warren arrived at Canso with ten ships of war; and the troops of New England being embarked m transports, sailed immediately for the isle of Cape Breton, where they landed without opposition.

T. (Tobias) Smollett - The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. : Continued from the Reign of William and Mary to the Death of George II.

Britain, on her part, calculated on the reduction of Canada, and the entire expulsion of the French from the American continent. Shirley repaired to Louisbourg, after its surrender, where he held a consultation with Warren and Pepperel on the favourite subject of future and more extensive operations against the neighbouring possessions of France.

John Marshall - The Life of George Washington, Vol. 1 : Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War : which Established the Independence of his Country and First : President of the United States