Volume 2 — CHAPTER III (continued 2)
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* These localities will be better understood by reference to the map of Narraganset Bay on page 648.
** These privateers captured about seventy-five prizes (some of them very valuable) during the season and sent them to Providence, New London, and one or two other ports.
*** On hearing of the approach of the enemy, the people of the island drove large quantities of sheep and cattle from it, crossing to the main at Howland's Ferry.
Condition of Rhode Island in 1777.—Re-encampment of the British.—General Prescott.—His Character.