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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gaspee, (search)
edience a Providence sloop was chased by the schooner. The former, by taking a peculiar course, caused the latter to run aground upon a low, sandy point (ever since known as Gaspee Point) on the west side of Narraganset Bay. The same night (June 9, 1772), sixty-four armed men went down from Providence in boats, captured the people on board the Gaspee, and burned the vessel. A large reward was offered for the discovery of the perpetrators (who were well known in Providence), but they were notntly, the colonists were at war with Great Britain, the act of Captain Whipple was avowed, and Sir James Wallace, in command of a British ship-of-war in Narraganset Bay, wrote as follows to the perpetrator of the act: You, Abraham Whipple, on June 9, 1772, burned his Majesty's vessel, the Gaspee, and I will hang you at the yard-arm. Whipple coolly replied: Sir, always catch your man before you hang him. A ballad was written at the time, containing fifty-eight lines of doggerel verse, which en
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Maine. (search)
eneral court establishes the counties of Cumberland (that part of Maine between the Saco and Androscoggin) and Lincoln (that part east of the Androscoggin)......June 19, 1760 Mount Desert Island granted to Governor Barnard......1762 Town of Bristol, embracing the ancient Pemaquid, incorporated......June 18, 1765 Town of Hallowell, embracing Cushnoc (Augusta) and Winslow, including Waterville, incorporated......April 26, 1771 Pepperellborough, afterwards Saco, incorporated......June 9, 1772 Belfast incorporated; first town on the Penobscot......June 22, 1773 New Gloucester incorporated......March 8, 1774 County convention, thirty-nine delegates from nine towns in Cumberland county, held at Falmouth, at which meeting Sheriff William Tyng declared his avowal to obey the province law and not that of Parliament, and which advises a firm and persevering opposition to every design, dark or open, framed to abridge our English liberties ......Sept. 21, 1774 Captain Mowat
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Rhode Island, (search)
s of liberty organized by eighteen young ladies at Dr. Ephraim Bowen's house in Providence......March 4, 1766 British armed sloop Liberty making an unprovoked assault on a Connecticut brig, the people of Newport dismantle and scuttle the Liberty and set her adrift......July 17, 1769 College of Rhode Island (Brown University) removed to Providence......1771 British schooner Gaspee, of eight guns, Capt. William Duddington, stationed at Newport, destroyed by a body of armed men......June 9, 1772 Rev. Samuel Hopkins and Rev. Ezra Stiles, of Newport, invite subscriptions to colonize free negroes on the western shores of Africa. This was the inception of the American Colonization Society......August, 1773 People of Newport in town-meeting resolve that any one aiding or abetting the unloading, receiving, or vending of tea sent by the East India Company or others while subject to duty in America, is an enemy to his country......Jan. 12, 1774 General Assembly at Newport elect