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	Gaspee
		Because of this, the name of the settlement was changed from Shawomett to Warwick.
		In 1772, Warwick was the scene for the first violent act against the Crown when, in what was to be called the GaspÃ©e Affair, local patriots boarded the British HMS GaspÃ©e, a revenue cutter charged with enforcing the Stamp Act 1765 and Townshend Acts in an area where smuggling was common, the Narragansett Bay.
		It was here that the first blood of the American Revolution was spilled when the commanding officer of the GaspÃ©e, Lt. Duddingston, was shot while resisting the taking of his ship.
	www.seattleluxury.com /encyclopedia/entry/Gaspee (810 words)

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		THE IMPACT OF THE GASPEE AFFAIR ON THECOMING OF THE REVOLUTION, 1772-1773 by LAWRENCE JOSEPH DeVARO, JR.
		Finally, another eyewitness to the affair, John Howland, maintained that this was one of the facts on which Bowen erred—that the Lindsey who mastered the Hannah was Benjamin and not Thomas.
		The Gaspee was very accessible in her present location, and low tide assured her captivity for the next several hours.
	pawtuxet.com /DevaroGaspee7-2006.doc (17960 words)

	The Gaspee Affair of 1772
		Shortly thereafter, the Rhode Islanders rushed the decks of the Gaspee and, in the melee, Dudingston was struck by a musket ball in the arm and fell to the deck.
		Yet, when the investigation of the Gaspee affair was opened on June 10, 1772 until its closure a year later, not one individual claimed to know any detail surrounding those involved or the course of action.
		Joseph Bucklin, the man who shot Col. Dudingston on the deck of the Gaspee (thus staking claim to firing the first shot of the Revolution) was lost at sea in 1781, with no record of public achievements.
	www.warwickri.gov /gaspee.htm (1020 words)

	Vlife VLibrary - Essays - Gaspee by Japkeerat
		In 1772, the two-masted schooner H.M.S. Gaspee, under the command of the stern Lieutenant William Dudingston, was transferred from Pennsylvania to New England in order to stem the tide of illegal trade.
		Shortly thereafter, the Rhode Islanders rushed the decks of the Gaspee and, in the melee, Dudingston was struck by a musket ball in the arm and fell to the deck.
		Yet, when the investigation of the Gaspee affair was opened on June 10, 1772 until its closure a year later, not one individual claimed to know any detail surrounding those involved or the course of action.
	vyharthi.netfirms.com /Essays/gaspee.htm (917 words)

	Affair of the Gaspee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The artifice succeeded; the Gaspee presently stuck fast, and the packet proceeded in triumph to Providence, where a strong sensation was excited by the tidings of the occurrence, and a project was hastily formed to improve the blow and destroy the obnoxious vessel.
		At two o'clock the next morning (June 10), they boarded the Gaspee so suddenly and in such numbers, that her crew were instantly overpowered, without hurt to anyone except her commanding officer, who was wounded.
		The issue of this daring act of war against the naval force of the king was as remarkable as the enterprise itself.
	www.walterbright.com /AmericanHistory/gaspee.html (219 words)

	Gaspee Virtual Archives
		Destruction of the Gaspee -- by William R. Staples.
		The Gaspee Affair: A Study of Its Constttutional Significance -- (81 Kb) by William Lesl
		The Gaspee seal, a two-masted schooner within a circle of 13 stars with 1772 at the bottom, and the motto, America's "First Blow for Freedom" are both registered trademarks of the Gaspee Days Committee, all rights reserved.
	www.gaspee.org (1613 words)

	RI-Revolution: the Gaspee Affair
		He expected that the Gaspee would catch sight of him and that he would very probably be stopped and his cargo searched, but he made up his mind not to allow this if he could help it.
		In the hopes of overtaking her the Gaspee tried a short cut across the shallow place, but the water was even shallower than her Commander had thought, and to the rage of the Commander and Crew, she went aground.
		It was soon quite evident that her chance to catch the packet was gone and that she would have to stay where she was until high tide, and that would not be until 3 o'clock next morning.
	gaspee.org /Haley.html (1339 words)

	Tribune Building - Stones
		The rock from Gaspee Point is on the wall because this is America and it was the true first strike of the American Revolution.
		The Gaspee Affair was an event during pre-revolutionary America.
		The Sons of Liberty borded the HMS Gaspee, which was commanded by Lieutenant William Duddington.
	www.op97.k12.il.us /julian/tribrocks/rocks/023/index.html (134 words)

	Warwick, Rhode Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Because of this, the name of the settlement was changed from Shawomett to Warwick.
		In 1772, Warwick was the scene for the first violent act against the Crown when, in what was to be called the Gaspée Affair, local patriots boarded the British HMS Gaspée, a revenue cutter charged with enforcing the Stamp Act 1765 and Townshend Acts in an area where smuggling was common, the Narragansett Bay.
		It was here that the first blood of the American Revolution was spilled when the commanding officer of the Gaspée, Lt. Duddingston, was shot while resisting the taking of his ship.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gaspee (872 words)

	Peter Oliver - Loyalist
		He was appointed to the King's comnmission to investigate the burning of the Gaspee in 1772.
		Gaspee Virtual Archives: The Gaspee Days Committee is a civic-minded nonprofit organization that operates many community events in and around Pawtuxet Village, RI including the famous Gaspee Days Parade each June.
		Their historical research center, the Gaspee Virtual Archives has presented these research notes as an attempt to gather further information on one who has been associated with the the Gaspee Affair.
	www.americanrevwar.homestead.com /files/OLIVER.html (548 words)

	What's the Importance of the Gaspee Affair?
		Thomas Jefferson, a member of the Virginia Houses of Burgess at the time recollects the relationship perfectly, and further cites that the distasteful reaction of the British to the Gaspee Affair also led the Virginia House leadership to directly consider at that time what was to become the First Continental Congress as well.
		Be that as it may, the Gaspee Affair played a very large role in these aspects as well.
		More importantly, the Gaspee Affair was the subject of a very influential pamplet, An Oration on the Beauties of Liberty, by Rev. John Allen of Boston.
	www.gaspee.org /WhatstheImportance.html (926 words)

	History of the American attack on the English ship Gaspee
		The Gaspee Affair is of importance beyond and above that of an initial armed conflict between the American colonials and the English military forces.
		When the Rhode Island colonists supported the Gaspee raiders, and all the other American colonies joined in resisting the English attempt to punish those who attacked the English Navy's ship, the Gaspee Affair could be nothing other that the beginning of the end of Rhode Island's colonial status.
		The picture of the Gaspee attack shown on this page is courtesy of the Museum of the U.S. Naval War College, where they acknowledge the Gaspee attack and the shot fired by Joseph Bucklin as part of U.S. Navy military history.
	www.gaspee.info /GaspeeHistory/index.htm (1168 words)

	Gaspee American 1772 Revolutionary War Attack on English: History and Research
		There was no useful moonlight and dark cloaked the Narragansett Bay, where the Gaspee, a British schooner, had run aground on Namquid Point.
		The Gaspee Affair area of the Joseph Bucklin Society research and education effort is extensive.
		The greatest amount of information is found in a separate website that we maintain, devoted solely to the history of the 1772 Gaspee attack, plus an exclusive biographical list of the Gaspee Raiders, the men in the boats that captured and destroyed the Gaspee.
	www.bucklinsociety.net /GASPEE_HISTORY.htm (416 words)

	mir.indymedia.org
		It is from foreign, and impartial historians, that we are reminded of the relative importance of that deed, which first impressed a bloody hue on our proceeding, and doomed its perpetrators, if the virtue of the country could have permitted their detection, to irremissible death.
		As to the effect produced by this daring act, and its baffled prosecution, the dread of ministerial vengeance, and the deep but calm determination to meet that vengeance, I must depend on tradition, and appeal to the recollections of the few survivors, of that portentous period.
		The Gaspee incident escalated the tyranny and tension.
	www.indymedia.org /nl/2006/07/841947.shtml (3348 words)

	American 1772 attack on English ship Gaspee: history and research
		The 1772 Gaspee Affair --- the Rhode Island men's attack on the Gaspee --- was officially declared by the English to be the
		The Rhode Island attack on the English Navy ship Gaspee was a significant event in the history of the American Colonial Revolution and the start of the American Revolutionary War, This site is part of the Joseph Bucklin Society's research and educational efforts.
		The Joseph Bucklin Society is dedicated both to researching and preserving the history of the Massachusetts and Rhode Island colonists and the descendants of William Bucklin, and also transmitting their example of courage, vitality, faith, duty, and honor.
	www.gaspee.info (611 words)

	The Power of Words.
		Peter May, 1 of 19 sailors aboard the schooner, recalled in a deposition "that she lay so dry that (we) walked round her and scraped her bottom." May, like many of the enlisted sailors, was illiterate, and signed his deposition not with his name but with his "mark" of a crooked cross.
		Aaron was stripped and tied to the mast; before the lash fell, a sailor who had served on the Gaspee "jumped up" and told the captain that the Negro had been with the raiding party the night the Gaspee was burned.
		The servants swore that on the night the Gaspee burned, Aaron slept in the same bed with them; he rose early and "to his usual custom" brought the cows into the yard to be milked.
	www.projo.com /words/st011002.htm (5292 words)

	Who Was Commodore Whipple?
		The strenuous efforts made from time to time by the British government to replenish its depleted exchequer by the imposition or collection of duties on American commerce were not less earnest than the efforts of Rhode Island merchants and shipmasters to avoid paying tribute.
		The Gaspee was a British schooner stationed at Newport as a tender of a British sloop of war.
		While the Rose was absent on one of her many foraging expeditions, this time to Fisher’s Island, Commodore Whipple boldly sailed into Newport Harbor and loaded all the remaining cannon from Fort George, Goat Island, aboard the Katy and transported them to Providence for the use of the Continental forces.
	www.whipple.org /abe/commodore.html (3428 words)

	The Burning of the H.M.S. Gaspee
		As a fervent, vocal opponent of the Stamp Act, he had emerged as a leader of colonists who openly opposed "taxation without representation." Brown's plan was to lure the Gaspee into shallow waters, run it aground, and then board and burn it.
		Suddenly, it found itself the hunted, not the hunter, and was boarded, captured, and burned to the water's edge while crowds in nearby Providence gathered on the wharf to cheer.
		The Gaspee incident was one of many that caused friction between the colonists and British government on the eve of the American Revolution.
	www.americanrevwar.homestead.com /files/GASPEE.HTM (661 words)

	Hausarbeiten.de: The Gaspee affair - Referat / Schulaufsatz. Seminararbeiten, Diplomarbeiten, Magisterarbeiten, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The town crier was told to cry out the situation of the Gaspee and to invite anyone who had a mind to destroy the ship, to assemble in Sabin′s tavern.
		The Gaspee was still smouldering, when the leaders of the colony took swift steps to protect the guilty.
		The major result of the Gaspee incident among the colonists was the formation of the Committees of Correspondence in each of the colonies to expedite the flow of information between them concerning events of mutual interest.
	www.hausarbeiten.de /faecher/hausarbeit/eni/8321.html (1874 words)

	Highlights for June 9
		The Gaspee was pursuing the Hanna, an American smuggling ship, when it ran aground off Namquit Point in Providence's Narragansett Bay on June 9.
		When British officials attempted to prosecute the colonists involved in the so-called "Gaspee Affair," they found no Americans willing to testify against their countrymen.
		This renewed the tension in British-American relations and inspired the Boston Patriots to found the "Committee of Correspondence," a propaganda group that rallied Americans to their cause by publicizing all anti-British activity that occurred throughout the 13 colonies.
	twotrees.www.50megs.com /attic/history/06/09h.html (1122 words)

	Replies
		The commander of the Gaspee was found to be seriously wounded and was carried to his cabin where he was attended by Dr. John Mawney, a member of the expedition, together with Joseph Bucklin.
		A former seaman of the Gaspee remembered seeing him aboard on the night she was burned and notified the commander, Captain Linzee.
		Thus the "Gaspee affair" was instrumental in the formation of a Colonial organization capable of united action.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-vetscor/1006400/replies?c=1 (4129 words)

	Joseph Bucklin Society,American Revolution,Colonial History,Bucklin Family genealogy,Gaspee.
		This is national history center for the Gaspee Affair of 1772 and for the Bucklin Family 1600-1899.
		Rhode Island and the Joseph Bucklin Society celebrate Joseph Bucklin's shot in the Gaspee Affair as the actual first shot of the Revolution.
		The Gaspee Affair was legally declared in England as the first act of war and treason, and was the first deliberate shooting an English military person.
	www.bucklinsociety.net /index.htm (769 words)

	Live Auctioneers - 226: The Gaspee Affair and "The Burning of th
		226: The Gaspee Affair and "The Burning of th
		The Gaspee Affair and "The Burning of the Gaspee" by F.L. King, Oil on Canvas, lot of 2, Fredrick Leonard King (1879-1947), illustrator, marine painter, lecturer, teacher.
		A pair of oil paintings depicting the 1772 night attack on the British warship Gaspee by disgruntled Rhode Island colonists.
	www.liveauctioneers.com /s/lot-46044.html (133 words)

	The Colonies versus Britain
		When some of the members of the "sons of Liberty" group, Rhode Island, heard this, they took over the stranded ship, arrested the captain with his crew, and set the ship on fire.
		The British government immediately instructed a commission of inquiry, to investigate the "Gaspee" affair.
		Another interesting phenomenon that resulted due to the Gaspee affair was that a committee of correspondence was set up in each colony.
	www.angelfire.com /pe/riversdale/coloniesvsbrit.htm (2708 words)

	Gaspee Affair
		The British revenue cutter Gaspee had served in American waters since 1764 and early on had drawn resentment by impressing a number of American colonists.
		This uneasy situation became worse in 1772 when the ship was under the command of Lieutenant William Dudingston and was assigned to the New England coast in a crackdown on smuggling.
		flag, the Gaspee chased it and the captain of the Hannah deliberately lured the Gaspee across shallow waters and left the British ship stranded on a sandbar, unable to move.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1260.html (772 words)

	The Burning of the HMS Gaspee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The attack on the Gaspee by RI patriots in 1772 was the first armed conflict leading to the American Revolution.
		The leader of the Gaspee attack was Abraham Whipple, a founding father of the US Navy.
		Of interest is the fact that the musket ball fired by the Rhode Islander Joseph Bucklin that gravely wounded the captain of the Gaspee is acknowledged by many to be the cause of the first firearm-related British casualty of the Revolution.
	www.nuwc.navy.mil /hq/history/gaspee.html (160 words)

	UtzDBQ-Radical Or Conservative Political Evolution
		The Gaspee was attacked by Rhode Island colonists who supported smuggling in violation of the Navigation Acts.
		That night a band of Rhode Island Sons of liberty boarded the stranded Gaspee, overwhelmed its captain and crew, and burned the vessel to the waterline.
		On Monday Evening the 5th current, a few Minutes after 9 O’Clock a most horrid murder was committed in King Street before the Customhouse Door by 8 or 9 Soldiers under the Command of Capt Thos Preston drawn of from the Main Guard on the South side of the Townhouse.
	www.historyteacher.net /USProjects/DBQs1999/UtzDBQ-1999-ConservativeOrRadicalRevolution.htm (2298 words)

	Account of a Declaration: Gloss
		A Lieutenant William Duddington, of Her Majesties Ship Gaspee, was charged with patrolling the waters of Narragansett Bay, off Rhode Island.
		A special commission, under the authority of the vice-admiralty courts, was sent to apprehend the perpetrators of the Gaspee affair, and to haul them back to England for trial.
		The Gaspee affair, in 1772, did result in a special court of inquiry, charged with the authority that Jefferson describes here.
	www.leftjustified.com /leftjust/lib/sc/ht/decl/gls0.html (4454 words)

	Rhode Island General Assembly > Press Releases
		The event is the first in a series of activities leading up to the Gaspee Days annual arts and crafts festival on Memorial Day Weekend and the Gaspee Days parade on Saturday, June 14, in the village of Pawtuxet in Warwick.
		The State House program will include a brief dramatic re-creation of an actual event in the year 1773, when then-Rhode Island Lt. Governor Darius Sessions was accused by the Admiralty Judge of acts of conspiracy to obstruct justice, perjury, treason and other high crimes and misdemeanors.
		Other information about Gaspee Days and a complete list of Gaspee Days events and activities is available on the Gaspee Days Committee website, www.gaspee.com.
	www.rilin.state.ri.us /News/pr1.asp?prid=426 (229 words)

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