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The Gaspee affair was a significant event in the lead-up to the American Revolution. HMS Gaspee was a Royal Navy revenue schooner that enforced the Navigation Acts around Newport, Rhode Island, in 1772. [1] It ran aground in shallow water while chasing the packet boat Hannah on June 9 off Warwick, Rhode Island.
The historiography of the Gaspee affair examines the changing views of historians and scholars with regard to the burning of HMS Gaspee, a British customs schooner that ran aground while patrolling coastal waters near Newport, Rhode Island and was boarded and destroyed by colonists during the lead up to the American Revolution in 1772.
Gaspee Point was the site of one of the first acts in the American Revolution when the Royal Navy's HMS Gaspee was grounded there by American patriots on June 9, 1772 in what became known as the Gaspée affair. The Gaspee was a revenue schooner locally detested for its enforcement of the unpopular Navigation Acts.
One of the most important events in which Cole was involved was the Gaspee Affair, prior to the American Revolutionary War. In March 1772 Rhode Island's Deputy Governor Darius Sessions , working in Providence, sent a letter of concern to Governor Joseph Wanton in Newport, having consulted with Chief Justice Stephen Hopkins .
The Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms was a Resolution adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 6, 1775. Written by Thomas Jefferson and revised by John Dickinson, [1] the Declaration explains why the Thirteen Colonies had taken up arms in what had become the American Revolutionary War.
Daniel Hitchcock (February 15, 1739 – January 13, 1777) was born in Massachusetts and graduated from Yale University.He moved to Providence, Rhode Island, where he became an attorney and was suspected by the authorities of involvement in the Gaspee Affair.
In the aftermath of the Gaspee Affair, Greene became increasingly alienated from the British. [12] At the same time, Greene drifted away from his father's Quaker faith, and he was suspended from Quaker meetings in July 1773. [ 13 ]
After the June 1772 burning of HMS Gaspee in Warwick, Rhode Island, the Earl of Hillsborough as Secretary of State for the Colonies proposed invoking the act, but Edward Thurlow and Alexander Wedderburn, the chief English law officers, advised that it did not apply since the Gaspee had not been in a dockyard. [26]