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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Rhode Island, (search)
ntry......Jan. 12, 1774 General Assembly at Newport elects Stephen Hopkins and Samuel Ward delegates to Continental Congress......June 15, 1774 Act of May 22, 1744, creating the Artillery Company of the county of Providence, amended by changing the name to The cadet Company of the county of Providence ......June, 1774 Three hundred pounds of tea publicly burned in Market Square at Providence, with copies of ministerial documents and other obnoxious papers......March 2, 1775 Gov. Joseph Wanton suspended from office, to which he had just been elected for the seventh time, for upholding the action of the British government......May 3, 1775 Admiral Wallace, commanding British fleet in Rhode Island, bombards Bristol, plunders the people, and burns Governor Bradford's house and seventeen others, together with two churches......Oct. 7, 1775 Charles Dudley, the King's collector of customs for Rhode Island, flees for refuge on board a ship-of-war......Nov. 15, 1775 British
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wanton, Joseph 1705-1780 (search)
Wanton, Joseph 1705-1780 Governor; born in Newport, R. I., in 1705; graduated at Harvard College in 1751 and engaged in mercantile business; was elected governor in 1769. He was appointed by the English government to investigate the burning of the ship Gaspee by the Whigs in 1773, and was also made superintendent of the British soldiers during their occupation of Newport. These and other causes made him an object of suspicion, and in 1775 the Assembly stripped him of all power and placed cantile business; was elected governor in 1769. He was appointed by the English government to investigate the burning of the ship Gaspee by the Whigs in 1773, and was also made superintendent of the British soldiers during their occupation of Newport. These and other causes made him an object of suspicion, and in 1775 the Assembly stripped him of all power and placed the executive prerogative in the hands of Deputy-Gov. Nicholas Cooke. Governor Wanton died in Newport, R. I., July 19, 1780.