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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gaspee, (search)
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 ended as follows: Now, for to find these people out, King George has offered very stout, One thousand pounds to find out one That wounded William Duddington. One thousand more he says he'll spare For those who say the sheriff's were. One thousand more there doth remain For to find out the leader's name; Likewise five hundred pounds per man For any one of all the clan. But, let him try his utmost skill, I'm apt to think he never will Find out any of those hearts of gold, Though he should offer fifty-fold. After the destruction of the Gaspee, a commission, composed of Admiral Montague, the vice-admiralty judge at Boston, the chief-just
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Rhode Island, (search)
o sustain the Stamp Act taking effect......Nov. 1, 1765 Society The daughters 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