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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gaspee, (search)
t they were not betrayed. Joseph Wanton, the royal governor of Rhode Island, issued a proclamation ordering diligent search for the perpetrators of the act. Admiral Montague made endeavors towards the same end, and the home government offered a reward of $5,000 for the leader, with the promise of a pardon if the informer should bhink 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-justices of Massachusetts (Peter Oliver), New York (D. Horsmanden), and New Jersey (F. Smyth), and the governor of Rhode Island (J. Wanton), met at Newport to inquire into the affair. Robert Auchmuty took the place Signatures of the commissioners. of Montague. The commissioners were notified that there had been no neglect of duty or connivance on the part of the provincial government, and it was intimated that this special court was