Introduction to the
Gaspee Virtual Archives
- The Gaspee
Virtual Archives is an ongoing
presentation (since 1997)
of
the Gaspee
Days Committee , a
civic-minded nonprofit organization
that
operates many community events in and around
Pawtuxet Village,
including the famous Gaspee Days Parade each
June. These events
are all
designed to commemorate the 1772 burning of
the
hated British revenue schooner, HMS Gaspee,
by Rhode Island
patriots as America's 'First Blow for
Freedom' TM
- If you've been researching
a
paper on
the Burning of the HMS
Gaspee,
or you're just fascinated by the story, here's
the website that is
the Mother of all things Gaspee.
- Reference us:
<http://www.gaspee.org
>
& date
visited.
- Caution students: Analysis
articles
may contain 'poison pills' to discourage
plagiarism! If you don't
believe us, visit http://www.plagiarism.org/
- Note:
Articles
native to the Gaspee Virtual Archives are
subject to frequent changes
based on new information as it is developed.
If you have items of interest for
our
Gaspee
Virtual Archives,
please e-mail the Gaspee
Virtual
Archives webmaster.
No homework questions, please!
- The Gaspee Virtual Archives
contains many
articles
at off
site links.... i.e., it's not our fault if
they don't load.
- All www.rootsweb.com
references need to be
reindexed at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com
- The Gaspee Virtual Archives
primarily
serves as
a repository of information regarding the
Gaspee Affair, using both
collected information found elsewhere, and as
a think tank of new
information. Every effort has been made
to present only
material
that
is either beyond copyright, or to have
obtained permission from the
creators,
where known. THIS DOES NOT IMPLY THAT
ALL ITEMS ARE PUBLIC DOMAIN.
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News & Events:
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Analysis
of
the Gaspee
Event
- LONG: Buy
the
Book
(Amazon.com link) -- The
Documentary
History of the Destruction of the Gaspee
-- by William R. Staples
- Hypertext version
of Staples' Gaspee
, the
1990 republication as above. Not as warm
around a fireplace as the real
book, but it DOES allow text string
searches! Total of
~200
pages. (Link courtesy of RI Publications
Society, with permission)
- Forward
--by
Dr. Patrick Conley. Includes Cover, Titles,
and Contents. (Pages i -x)
- Introduction
-- by Professor Richard M. Deasy of
Providence College. An analysis
essay
of Staples, and the Gaspee Affair.
(Pages xi-liv)
- Destruction
of
the Gaspee
-- by William R. Staples. (298 Kb,
Pages 1-110).
- Appendix
A
-- Collected documents from Bartlett on the
Gaspee. (Pages
111-128)
- Appendix
B
-- Collected documents from the RI
Historical Society on the Gaspee
Affair. (Pages 129-138)
LONG: A History
of the Destruction of His Britannic
Majesty's Schooner Gaspee....
.-- by John R. Bartlett. We dare you to
quote the whole title!
LONGEST:
The
Impact of
the Gaspee Affair on the Coming of the
Revolution, 1772-1773
-- Lawrence J. DeVaro. PhD dissertation,
1973 (754
Kb, 358 pages .doc)
MEDIUM: Revolutionary
Fire: The Gaspee Incident
[50 Kb ~20 pages]. (Link courtesy of the
RI Council for the
Humanities.)
MEDIUM: Sparking
the Revolution -- by Gerald M.
Carbone (Link courtesy ProJo.com)
MEDIUM: The
Gaspee
Affair: A Study of Its Constttutional
Significance --
(81
Kb) by William Lesl1e
MEDIUM
SHORT: The
Story of the Gaspee -- by Lewis
Taft
MEDIUM
SHORT: Gaspee:
Prelude to the Revolution -- by Alex
Gabbard
MEDIUM
SHORT: Conflicts That
Led Up to the Burning of the Gaspee -- by
Susan Danforth
MEDIUM
SHORT: Excerpt of the
Gaspee Affair --
by Catherine Williams, 1839
SHORT: The
Gaspee Affair -- by John Williams Haley
SHORT:
Clergy and Press
Reaction to Gaspee's Burning
-- by
Frances Segerson
SHORT:
The Destruction
of the Gaspee
and the Reasons
Therefore -- by Mrs. B. O.
Wilbour
SHORTER:
The
Gaspee Affair -- by Hubert H.
Bancroft
ESSENTIAL: What's
the Importance of the Gaspee Affair?
-- by Dr. John Concannon
SHORTEST:
The
Burning
of the Gaspee -- As
short as
we can get it!
- Media
Facts Sheet -- The essentials for
the Press.
- PowerPoint
Presentations on the Gaspee
Affair
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Gaspee Testimony (More
testimony to be found in Staples)
Ephraim
Bowen's
Account
Lieutenant
Dudingston's
Story
(see
original)
Statement
of
Dr. John Mawney
Deposition
of Aaron
Briggs
Deposition
of Daniel
Vaughan
An Unsigned
Letter from a Spy to Admiral
Montagu
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Reactions to the
Burning of the Gaspee:
Governor
Wanton's Reward Offer
King
George
III's Reward Offer
(see
original)
Instructions
of
King
George III to the Gaspee Commissioners
(see
original)
The
Gaspee
Commissioners
Report to King George III
(see
original)
Letters
from
Massachusetts
Governor
Thomas Hutchinson
Chief
Justice
Horsmanden's
Report to the Earl of Dartmouth
(see
original)
Letters
from
Samuel
Adams on the Gaspee Incident
Reverend
John
Allen's
Oratory on
the Gaspee Incident
London
newspaper,
July
1772
Gentleman's
Magazine,
London, July 1773
Rescue
Mission
to
Save John Brown
Letter
from
Charles
Dudley to Admiral Montagu
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Cast of Characters:
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Gaspee Backgrounds:
- Histiography
of
the Gaspee Affair -- by Steven H. Park,
PhD (may be
altered from original Wikipedia
posting)
- The
Impending
Revolution-- from Charles
Carroll's Rhode Island: Three Centuries of
Democracy. (184 Kb,
pages 233-272)
- History of the
State of Rhode Island and
Providence Plantations (1859)
-- Samuel Green Arnold (Link courtesy
UMichigan)
- TimeLine,
America
During the Age of Revolution,
1764-1775
(Link courtesy Library of Congress)
- Rhode
Island-centric Timeline of the
Revolution. 1763-1789
- American
Affairs
1760-1783 -- A British view of the
Revolutionary era
(Link courtesy of A Web of English History)
- The
Sons of
Liberty (Link courtesy of
earlyamerica.com)
- The
Result
of the Gaspee Affair: The
Committee of
Correspondence (Link
courtesy of earlyamerica.com)
- Revolution
in Three
Acts -- Colorful writings about
Rhode Island's role in the Revolution,
including the Gaspee
affair, --by Lucia Hammond Wheeler (1936)
- A
Naval History of
the American Revolution --by Gardner W.
Allen (Link courtesy of
americanrevolution.com)
- British
Naval Terms and
Slang (Link courtesy of
hmsrichmond.org)
- Royal
Navy Articles
of War -1749 (Link
courtesy of hmsrichmond.org)
- Life
on
British Navy Schooner, 1768 -1772
(Link courtesy of
the Sultana Projects)
- The
Maritime
History Virtual Archives (Link
courtesy of Lars Bruzelius)
- How
to
Read 18th Century British-American
Writing
(Link courtesy of
DoHistory.org)
- Letter
Writing Style of
1775 (Link courtesy of
hmsrichmond.org)
- Doing
Research
on the Gaspee Affair: Primary and Secondary
Bibliographic
Sources (Link courtesy of Steve H.
Park, PhD at UConn)
- 18th
Century
Primary
Sources -- Links to original
documents related to
Colonial and Revolutionary America, except
Gaspee, of
course! (Link courtesy Fordham
University)
- More
18th Century
Primary Sources -- Mostly stale
links to original documents
related to
Colonial and Revolutionary America (Link
courtesy Oregon State
University)
- Maritime
History
on the
Internet (Link courtesy
of Peter McCracken)
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Controversies
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Miscellanea Gaspee:
- Notes
on
the
Possible
Construction
and Rigging of the Gaspee --
by
Jack Silvia
- The
Gaspee
Prior
to 1772 -- "Better here than in
Philadelphia....."
- Expeditions
to
Find
the
Gaspee--What's
left....and what's left to the imagination.
- Geological
survey of Gaspee Point, 1902
-- Gee, we didn't know what a cuspate foreland
was!
- Detailed Map of
Narragansett Bay in 1772 --
by Charles Blaskowitz
- Brief
Resume of the
Dramatic Sketch
for "Revolutionary
Fire: The Gaspee Incident
" (Link courtesy of
the RI Council for the
Humanities)
- Saturday
Evening
Post, August
1829 -- an amusing account of
the Gaspee Affair
- A
Night at
Sabin's Inn -- by Hazel Kennedy
- A Night at
Sabin's Tavern
-- by Edward Field
- Cellar
Imprisonment
of
the Gaspee Crewmen-- by Hazel
Kennedy
- Excerpt
from
Pictoral
Field
Guide to the Revolution --
by Benson Lossing
- List
of
RI
State Archives Holdings re: the Gaspee
Affair
- False
Pathways
in
Researching
the
Gaspee Affair -- What our Gaspee
isn't!
- Info
on
the RI Historical Society Library
-- Links to their website
- Tips on
Research at Providence's Old North
Burial Ground -- by Leonard
Bucklin
- Gaspee
Days
Committee History Files -- Not
about
the Gaspee Affair itself, but about
the Committee that
celebrates
it, historical markers, and memorabilia
related to the Gaspee.
- The Gaspee
Incident in Fiction -- Fictional
works
that relate to the Gaspee
- The
Joseph
Bucklin Society
-- a great, complimentary web site resource on
the Gaspee Affair
- Rehoboth,
Massachusetts -- curious
connections to people that burnt the Gaspee
- George
Washington Celebrates the Gaspee
--
compleat with
fireworks!
- Virginia
Gazette
-- links to selected articles of famous
colonial newspaper
- Newport
skirmish -- Rhode
Islanders ambush the British outside Newport,
Jan, 1773
- Dudingston's
Petition to the King for Relief -- Great
drama.
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Collected Poetry about the Gaspee:
Burn
the Gaspee
-- by Samuel S. Kretman
Failures
Make
History
Too --
by Jim Boren
Gaspee
Song --Attributed
to
Capt. Thomas Swan
The
Gaspee
Affair
--
by Rosetta Desrosiers
Ballad
of
the Gaspee Affair -- by Robert
Archetto
The Last Cruise
of the Gaspee
-- by George L.
Raymond
A Recipe for
Revolution --
author unknown
First
Blow for Freedom -- by Marjorie
Clegg
Gaspee
Days -- by Ed Holden
Of Past Parts
and Unity -- by Mark
Bernier
"Burn
the Gaspee!" -- by Michael J.
Moakler
"The
Burning of the Gaspee" --
Anonymous, 1800
The Burning of
the Gaspee
-- by
Karen Girouard, 2008
Yankee
Privateer--Sea Chantey
about Abraham Whipple, the leader of the
attack on the Gaspee
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Teachers' Room:
- Curriculum
Aids from
the Sultana Project. The Sultana is a
re-creation of a British revenue
schooner c1768 that now
serves
as a sailing classroom in Chesapeake
Bay. It is very
similar
to the Gaspee. (All
links
courtesy of Sultana Projects, Inc., all are
.pdf files)
- Sultana’s
Colonial
History classroom unit, entitled “Sea
of
Change – Sultana, the Tea
Taxes and the Dawn of the American
Revolution,”
is targeted towards 4-6th grade
students. The unit examines the world
of pre-Revolutionary America through the
lens of the 1768 British Royal
Navy tax collecting schooner Sultana.
The unit can function as a stand
alone curriculum as well as a pre-trip
primer for students sailing on
Sultana.
- Guide
to Sultana:
Written
for an adult audience, this pocket guide
contains all the information
you would ever want to know about
Sultana's history, construction, and
educational mission. The pocket
guide contains copies of the
original 1768 drawings of Sultana
and a listing of all of the 101 crew
members who served aboard her from
1768-1772.
- High
School/College
Level:
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Gaspee for KIDS!
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Gaspee Graphics:
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The Gaspee
Virtual Archives
is an ongoing presentation
of
the
Gaspee Days
Committee, a civic-minded nonprofit
organization
that
operates many
community events in and around Pawtuxet
Village,
including the famous Gaspee Days Parade each
June.
These events are all
designed to commemorate
the
1772
burning of the
hated British revenue schooner, HMS Gaspee,
by Rhode Island
patriots as America's
'First Blow for Freedom' TM
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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. If
you find this website helpful, please
consider:
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but it is impossible for us to promptly answer
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