revived in his favour. His wife, Elizabeth Royall, died at the age of 26 on October 9 1775, during the voyage to England and was buried in The Old Burying Ground in Halifax NS as they fled the American Revolution as Loyalists He spent the latter part of his life in London, where he helped to found the British and Foreign Bible Society. He died at home at Portman Square in 1816. Legacy Pepperrell's house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The town of Pepperell, Massachusetts is named for him. From 1762 to 1805, the town of Saco, Maine, which he had a role in founding, was known as "Pepperellborough"; there is still a Pepperell Square in downtown Saco. Pepperrell Air Force Base, a United States Air Force base located in St. John's, Canada from 1941 to 1960 was named in his honor. Namesake of Pepperell St., Halifax, Nova Scotia (which is parallel to Shirley St., named after William Shirley) Notes References Usher Parsons, Life of Sir William Pepperell, (Boston, 1855) Francis Parkman, A Half-Century of Conflict, (Boston, 1892) Byron Fairchild, Messrs. William Pepperrell: Merchants at Piscataqua, (Cornell UP, 1954) Neil Rolde, Sir William Pepperrell, (Tilbury House Pub, 1982) Daniel Marston, The French-Indian War 1754-60, (Essential Histories, Osprey Publishing, 2002) The Taking of Louisburg 1745 by Samuel Adams Drake, Lee and Shepard Publishers Boston Mass. USA 1891 (reprinted by Kessinger Publishing ) Richard A. Brayall, To the Uttermost of My Power: The Life and Times of Sir William Pepperrell 1696-1759, (Westminster, MD: Heritage Books, 2008) Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Sir William Pepperell," (1833) Further reading Ruggiu, François-Joseph. "Extraction, wealth and industry: The ideas of noblesse and of gentility in the English and French Atlantics (17th–18th centuries)." History of European Ideas 34.4 (2008): 444–455 online Schlesinger, Arthur M. “The Aristocracy in Colonial America.” Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, vol. 74, 1962, pp. 3–21. online External links Charles Edward Banks Collection contains genealogical resources for the Pepperrell family. From the Library of Congress People of colonial Massachusetts People of colonial Maine Pepperrell, William, 1st Baronet 1696 births 1759 deaths American people of English descent American people of Welsh descent British Army generals British Army personnel of the War of the Austrian Succession Military personnel from colonial Massachusetts British Army personnel of the Seven Years' War People from Kittery, Maine British America army officers People of pre-statehood Maine Burials in Maine