Note 244 — Chapter I · (continued 2)

Mr. Wm. R. Staples had earlier published the Documentary Hist. of the destruction of the Gaspee (Providence, 1845). An account by Ephraim Bowen is given in S. G. Arnold's Rhode Island (vol. ii. ch. 19, 20). For local accounts, see Providence Plantations (Providence, 1886), pp. 58, 359; O. P. Fuller's Warwick, R. I. (p. 101); Foster's Stephen Hopkins (ii. 83, 245); E. M. Stone's John Howland (p. 35). For the political bearings to the country at large, see Frothingham's Rise of the Republic (p. 278); Parton's Jefferson (ch. 14, 15); Life of R. H. Lee (i. 85); Lossing's Field-Book (ii. 60). There are in the Sparks MSS. (xliii. vol. i. p. 140, etc.) the letters of the British Admiral Montague, and depositions copied from papers in the English Archives. G. C. Mason, in the R. I. Hist. Soc. Coll., vii. 301, etc., traces the presence of different English war vessels in the bay between 1765, and 1776. Cf. New Jersey Archives, x. 375, 395.