Posted by graham johnston on Saturday 2nd of November 2019 20:08

see www.gaspee.org and www.eliehistory.com

Posted by Brian on Wednesday 3rd of February 2016 22:36

Extract of a letter from Newport, Rhode Island Jun 15, 1772 - The Hon Joseph Wanton, Governor of this Colony, published a proclamation on the 12th inst. offering a reward of 100I sterling to any person or persons who shall discover the people that, on the 9th inst. in the night, boarded his Majesty's armed schooner, Gaspe, as she lay around on a point of land called Nanquit a little to the southward of Pawtuxet, in this colony, dangerously wounded Lieutenant William Duddingston, the Commander, and by force took him with all his people, put them into boats, and landed them near Pawtuxet, and afterward set fire to the said schooner, whereby she was entirely destroyed.