DOCSLIB.ORG

Esek Hopkins, Commander-In-Chief of the Continental Navy During

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Esek Hopkins, Commander-In-Chief of the Continental Navy During JNlJ-iU^ ESEK HOPKINS BOOKS BY EDWARD HELD. Tax Lists of the Town of Providence during the Administration of Sir Edmund Andros. 1686- 1689. Sq. 8vo. $1.00 net. Revolutionary Defences in Rhode Island. WriH Maps, Plans, and Ilhstrations 8\'0. $2.25 net. The Colonial Tavern : A Glimpse of New England Town Life in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. 8vo. §2.00 net. Esek Hopkins: Commander=ln=Chief of the Con= tinental Navy during the American Revolution, '775 to '778- I1.LISTKATED. 8vo. $3.00 net. From the fainliiii; Oy lltaiie, in lite possession of Brown University, Providence. I'ortrail I'late 6. ESEK HOPKINS CoMMANDER-IN-ClIIKF The Continental Navy during the amr:rican revolution 1775 to 1778 POLITICIAN MASTER MARINER, , BRIGADIER GENERAL, NAVAL OFFICER AND PHILANTHROPLST EDWARD FIELD A. B. PKOVIDENCK THE PRESTON & ROUNDS CO Edition limited to 300 copies of which this is No. 143 Copyright, i8g8, BY EDWARD FIELD I'KESS OK K. I,. l-'RF.EMAN a SONS, I'KOVIIJIENCF., R. I. ^07 TO MY FRIEND HORATIO ROGERS, LL.D., JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT OF RHODE ISLAND 963S28 NTRODUCTION But slender justice has been rendered to the services of Esek Hopkins in the Ameri- can Revolution. Historians could not omit all reference to the first Commander-in-Chief of the American Navy, but the manner in which some of them have mentioned him would seem to indicate that they wrote not from their fulness, but from their lack of knowledge concerning him. The only positive information most writers had of him, apparently, was that he had been dis- missed from the naval service, and hence they inferred that he must have deserved his fate. The more satisfactory method of historical portrayal would have been to have narrated the causes that led to that treatment and let the reader draw his own conclusions as to the justice of it. /X TROD UC TION y j The narrow escape of various eminent characters in our national history from super- sedure or condemnation, warns us that official action is by no means a sure guide to a just judgment. The machinations of a cabal of discontented generals at one time fomented trouble for Washington in the Continental Congress, while the jealousy of Halleck, when commanding our army in the late Civil W ar, well nigh accomplished the displace- ment of Grant. Whatever my own estimate of Esek Hop- kins may be, however, I have presented the facts just as I have gleaned them, that each may judge for himself what manner of man he was. I have drawn my material entirely from official records, manuscripts and standard authorities. Of the very highest value have been the Hopkins Papers, preserved in the Rhode Island Historical Society, consisting of the official orders and letters of Hopkins while Commander-in-Chief, covering the whole period of his connection with the navy, and of a number of volumes of corre- IN77WDUC770N yjj spondence and other papers relating to other parts of his life. The Hopkins Papers were deposited in the Rhode Island Historical Society, with the consent of the Hopkins heirs. It is remarkable that so many of them have been preserved after the years of neglect which they suffered, being stored in old attics and taken from place to place and exposed for sale. Sonie, doubtless, have disappeared, but those remaining comprise the greater part that relate to Hopkins' naval service. These papers are preserved in four volumes the first being the letters and orders of the Commander-in-Chief, i 776-1 777; the second consists of letters and miscellaneous papers 1728-1786; the third contains similar docu- ments, 1776-177S; the fourth is a volume of type-written copies of various papers de- posited in the national archives. These copies were made some years ago at the sugorestion of Richard S. Howland, Esq., editor of the Providence Journal, many inquiries having been made regarding the INTRODUCTION VI 11 official record of Hopkins service in the navy. Mr. Howland requested that a search be instituted at the several departments at Washino^ton for all the material relatins: to Hopkins in possession of the national govern- ment, and that it be brought together for historical purposes. In response to this request, the departments very courteously forwarded typewritten copies of all documents bearing on the subject and they were en- trusted to the Rhode Island Historical Society for safe keeping. Besides these papers, the writings of John Adams contain much in regard to the pro- ceedings in Congress when Hopkins was under investigation by that body, while the records of the State of Rhode Island testify to his unremitting labors in the public service for a long term of years. But it is no part of my purpose to weary the reader by here detailing all my authorities ; suffice it to say that those I have mentioned form the chief. In preparing this volume the exact lan- guage of letters, orders, and official proceed- ings has been preserved as far as possible, as IiV TROD UC TIOM IX it seemed to me to imj^art a clearer signifi- cance than when smoothed \\\) or rounded out bv a revising- hand. I desire to acknowledge m\- obligations to tlie Hon. Amos Perry, Librarian of the Rhode Island Historical Society, for his kindly courtesy in aiding me in procuring material, and to Mr. Fred A. Arnold, of Providence, who has permitted me to use his valuable collection of old prints in making many of the illustrations for this work. Edward Field. Providence, R. /., November, iSg8. CONTENTS CHAPTER I I'AOE. Ancestry and Early Life i CHAPTER II Military Services and the Beginning of THE American Revolution .... 36 CHAPTER III The Origin of a Navy and the Appoint- ment OF a Com.mandkr-in-Chief ... 63 CHAPTER IV The First Cruise of the American Flei:t 103 CHAPTER V The Congressional IN(^^'lK^ 141 CHAPTER \T The Conspiracy and Dismissai 17S CHAPTER VII Closing Years 2^7 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS EseU Hopkins, Poitrait Plate 6 . Frontispiece Scene in a I*nl)lic House in .Surinam .... 28 Esek Hopkins, Portrait Plate i 44 Captain Abraham Whipple 6S Captain Nicholas Biddle S2 Esek Hopkins, Portrait Plate 2 104 Esek Hopkins' Spy Glass i i i Map of the Island of New Prcnidence showing- Operations of the First American Naval K\- pedition 114 Esek Hopkins, Portrait Plate 3 136 Order for Prize jMc^nev 166 Esek Ilopkins, Portrait Plate 4 .... iSo Lieutenant Seth Chapin 20S Esek Hopkins, Portrait Plate ^ 224 Esek Hopkins' .Sword . 23S Home of Esek Hopkins 242 Home of Esek Hopkins (interior, library) . 248 Home of Esek Hopkins (interior, parlor) . 256 Ilopkins Statue 260 ESEK HOPKINS COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE CONTINENTAL NAVY CHAPTER I ANCESTRY AND EARLY LIFE, ARLY in the affairs of Rhode Island, E appears the name of Hopkins. Thomas Hopkins, the ancestor of many of those in New England who now bear the name, was one of thirty-eight men who joined in an agreement for a form of government for the little settlement which Roger Williams estab- lished at the head of Narragansett Bay, and to which he gave the name Providence. It was an unpromising settlement at first, as all new ventures are apt to be, for it was the first free government to be established in the civilized world. Enemies without its borders scoffed at the idea of a government so unstable. I^nemies within its borders, by intrigues with the neighboring aulliorities. ESEK HOPKINS sought to overthrow it, yet though tauntingly alluded to as a "nest of unclean birds" and said to be made up of those with minds too weak or too strong to assimilate with the other colonies, it grew and flourished, and from within its limits was quarried the foun- dation stone on which our national fabric rests —civil liberty. With this infant community Thomas Hopkins identified himself, and ere the set- tlement had seen four years of existence, was already participating actively in its affairs. Called upon by his fellow townsmen to fill. many offices of public trust, he served succes- sively as Commissioner, Deputy and Town Councilman. He was also for a time Town Sergeant; an ancient manuscript is yet pre- served signed by Roger Williams, directing Sergeant Hopkins to warn certain townsmen to appear at the " Towne House" and give testimony in a case then pending, between Thomas Angell and Robert West. Thomas Hopkins was born in England, April 7, 161 6, was the son of William and Joanna (Arnold) Hopkins, and, at his coming to Providence, was a young man twenty-four years of age. The date of his marriage is not known, the name of his wafe even is a subject of ESEK nOl'KI.XS ^ conjecture, liis great grandson,' who was six- teen years old at the time of his grandfather's death, noted in liis family record that she was a daughter of William .Arnold and a sister of Governor Benedict Arnold. This has gener- ally been admitted to be the case although Austin in his Gencalooical Dicliojiary of Rhode Island makes no mention of it, but another careful historical writer and genealo- o^ist' has found that while there was nothing to absolutely disprove this theory, there was enough to create a doubt as to its accuracy. Thomas Hopkins had three sons all of whom married and had children. William Hopkins, the eldest son, was a surveyor, a man of learn- ing, and held numerous tow^n ofifices. At the time of King Philip's War when the Colo- nial authorities warned the people of the va- rious towns to remov^e to Newport by reason of its greater security from the depredations of the savages, William Hopkins "stayed and w^ent not away," as the records quaintly note this act of heroism.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Sea Captains Carousing in Surinam by Robert W. Kenny* Rhode Island
    Sea Captains Carousing in Surinam by John Greenwood, 1755 Courtesy The St. Louis Museum of Art Sea Captains Carousing in Surinam by Robert W. Kenny* Rhode Island History, 36:4 (November 1977), pp 107-117. Digitally re-presented from .pdf available on-line courtesy of the RI Historical Society at: http://www.rihs.org/assetts/files/publications/1977_Nov.pdf In 1948 the City Art Museum of St. Louis purchased the painting Sea Captains Carousing in Surinam. Removal of that canvas from Rhode Island to the Midwest was a source of regret to some and perhaps relief to other citizens, for artist John Greenwood had captured for posterity a memorable bacchanalia of Rhode Islanders who — by the long arm of coincidence — found themselves in port in the Dutch colony of Surinam sometime during the late 1750s. Most participants in that gala would later hold prominent positions in the civil and military history of His Majesty's colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and during the American Revolution. Identification of the revelers is part of the tradition of the Jenckeses, a family distinguished in the life of Rhode Island for generations. Until its sale to the City Art Museum, that picture had always been in the possession of John Jenckes' descendents, who sold it with great reluctance. Aside from its value as a work of art, associational interest makes Sea Captain Carousing in Surinam a provocative study. It is the purpose of this paper to examine if it were possible or probable that all or some Newport and Providence merchants and mariners, traditionally identified, could have been in Surinam at the time Greenwood depicted them in such Hogarthian attitudes.
    [Show full text]
  • The Gaspee Affair As Conspiracy by Lawrence J
    The Gaspee Affair as Conspiracy By Lawrence J. DeVaro, Jr. Rhode Island History, October 1973, pp. 106-121 Digitized and reformatted from .pdf available on-line courtesy RI Historical Society at: http://www.rihs.org/assetts/files/publications/1973_Oct.pdf On the afternoon of June 9, 1772, His Majesty's schooner Gaspee grounded on a shoal called Namquit Point in Narragansett Bay. From the time of their arrival in Rhode Island's waters in February, the Gaspee and her commander, Lieutenant William Dudingston, had been the cause of much commercial frustration of local merchants. Dudingston was insolent, described by one local newspaper as more imperious and haughty than the Grand Turk himself. Past accounts of his pettish nature followed him from port to port.[1] The lieutenant was also shrewd. Aware that owners of seized vessels — rather than navy captains deputized in the customs service — would triumph in any cause brought before Rhode Island's vice-admiralty court, Dudingston had favored the district vice-admiralty court at Boston instead, an option available to customs officials since 1768.[2] Aside from threatening property of Rhode Islanders through possible condemnation of seizures, utilization of the court at Boston invigorated opposition to trials out of the vicinage, a grievance which had irritated merchants within the colony for some time.[3] Finally the lieutenant was zealous — determined to be a conscientious customs officer even if it meant threatening Rhode Island's flourishing illicit trade in non-British, West-Indian molasses. Governor Joseph Wanton of Rhode Island observed that Dudingston also hounded little packet boats as they plied their way between Newport and Providence.
    [Show full text]
  • Jamestown, Rhode Island
    Historic andArchitectural Resources ofJamestown, Rhode Island 1 Li *fl U fl It - .-*-,. -.- - - . ---... -S - Historic and Architectural Resources of Jamestown, Rhode Island Rhode Island Historical Preservation & Heritage Commission 1995 Historic and Architectural Resources ofJamestown, Rhode Island, is published by the Rhode Island Historical Preservation & Heritage Commission, which is the state historic preservation office, in cooperation with the Jamestown Historical Society. Preparation of this publication has been funded in part by the National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior. The contents and opinions herein, however, do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the Department of the Interior. The Rhode Island Historical Preservation & Heritage Commission receives federal funds from the National Park Service. Regulations of the United States Department of the Interior strictly prohibit discrimination in departmental federally assisted programs on the basis of race, color, national origin, or handicap. Any person who believes that he or she has been discriminated against in any program, activity, or facility operated by a recipient of federal assistance should write to: Director, Equal Opportunity Program, United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, P.O. Box 37127, Washington, D.C. 20013-7127. Cover East Fern’. Photograph c. 1890. Couriecy of Janiestown Historical Society. This view, looking north along tile shore, shows the steam feriy Conanicut leaving tile slip. From left to rig/It are tile Thorndike Hotel, Gardner house, Riverside, Bay View Hotel and tile Bay Voyage Inn. Only tile Bay Voyage Iiii suivives. Title Page: Beavertail Lighthouse, 1856, Beavertail Road. Tile light/louse tower at the southern tip of the island, the tallest offive buildings at this site, is a 52-foot-high stone structure.
    [Show full text]
  • Roger Williams, the Founder of Providence •Fi the Pioneer Of
    Providence College DigitalCommons@Providence Rhode Island History Special Collections 1908 Roger Williams, The Founder of Providence – The Pioneer of Religious Liberty Amasa M. Eaton Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.providence.edu/ri_history Part of the United States History Commons Recommended Citation Eaton, Amasa M., "Roger Williams, The Founder of Providence – The Pioneer of Religious Liberty" (1908). Rhode Island History. 17. https://digitalcommons.providence.edu/ri_history/17 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Special Collections at DigitalCommons@Providence. It has been accepted for inclusion in Rhode Island History by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@Providence. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Rhode Island Educational Circulars HISTORICAL SERIES-II ROGER WILLIAMS THE FOUNDER OF PROVIDENCE-THE PIONEER OF RELIGIOUS LIBERTY BY AMASA M. EATON, A. M., LL. B. WITH SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY IN SCHOOLS BY CLARA E. CRAIG DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION STATE OF RHODE ~LAND PREFArl'OllY NOTE. In providing for the issue of a series of historical studies relating to Rhode Island, adapted to use in school, the Department of Education is fortunate in being able to present, a~ an initial number, Mr. Eaton's study of "Roger Williams, the Founder of Providence." It was first delivered as an address before the Rhode Island Historical Society on the second of October, 1906, upon the unveiling of the ·tablets placed by the State to mark the site of the spring where the settlers first landecl. and the site of the Roger Williams Home Lot. As the founder 6f Providence, as a leading actor in the beginnings of Rhode Island, and as one of the few famous Americans of Colonial times whose names will endure, Roger Williams is certainly a great historical personage, of whose life and times every pupil in our schools should have knowledge.
    [Show full text]
  • The Excavation of the Privateer Defence David C
    Northeast Historical Archaeology Volume 12 1983 Symposium on Archaeology of the Revolutionary War Period Held at New Windsor Article 9 Cantonment State Historic Site, New Windsor, New York 1983 The Excavation of the Privateer Defence David C. Switzer Follow this and additional works at: http://orb.binghamton.edu/neha Part of the Archaeological Anthropology Commons Recommended Citation Switzer, David C. (1983) "The Excavation of the Privateer Defence," Northeast Historical Archaeology: Vol. 12 12, Article 9. https://doi.org/10.22191/neha/vol12/iss1/9 Available at: http://orb.binghamton.edu/neha/vol12/iss1/9 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by The Open Repository @ Binghamton (The ORB). It has been accepted for inclusion in Northeast Historical Archaeology by an authorized editor of The Open Repository @ Binghamton (The ORB). For more information, please contact [email protected]. 43 Due to a combination of factors such as The Excavation of the poor planning, poor leadership, ill-trained Privateer Defence and poorly equipped militia, and over confidence soon to be replaced by low morale, by David C. Switzer the expedition failed to interrupt the British activities. The arrival of a small Royal Navy INTRODUCTION squadron of five vessels under the command of Admiral Sir George Collier broke the siege During the early morning hours of that had been initiated by the American force. August 14, 1779, a vessel sank in an inlet The troops were evacuated, and, pursued by the immediately west of Penobscot River on the British, the American fleet retreated up the coast of Maine. The vessel was a Revolutionary War privateer, the 16-gun brig Penobscot River on August 13th.
    [Show full text]
  • B I C K E R S T a F F's Books, Maps &C
    B I C K E R S T A F F’s Books, Maps &c. Fine Americana: Books, Periodicals, Maps & Views November, 2016 B I C K E R S T A F F’s Books, Maps &c. Six Old Colony Lane, Scarborough, (District of) Maine 04074 USA Telephone: 207-883-1119 E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.bickerstaffs.com Account of the Boston Tea Party and a Very Scarce Boston Map in a Dublin Magazine, 1774 1. [American Revolution.] [Boston Map.] The Gentleman's and London Magazine: or, Monthly Chronologer. MDCCLXXIV. [1774]. Dublin: Printed by John Exshaw. 800 pp. plus indices. Quarter calf over very worn marbled boards. Red spine label with gilt title. Considerable erosion along joints. Lacking endpapers. Lacking most plates and with several leaves partially loosened from the text block. Despite the title, this Magazine was published in Dublin. It is the volume of twelve issues plus indices for the year 1774. There is considerable reporting of the American unrest, including "Thoughts of a Traveller upon our American Disputes" (pp. 789-794). An account of the closing of the port of Boston as of June 1notes that the day was observed as one of mourning "at Harvard in Connecticut [sic]" with bells ringing, the town-house draped in black and shops closed. Most significant, however, is a nice report on the Boston tea party and the events leading to it (pp. 84-85). Finally, an extremely uncommon map of Boston remains bound into the volume in the June, 1774 issue (opposite p. 358). Titled A New and Accurate Plan of the Town of Boston, in New England, the map is clearly based on a very similar map that appeared in the May, 1774 issue of the London-based Universal Magazine.
    [Show full text]
  • Fall 2007 1942
    Rhode Island History articles, January 1942 – Fall 2007 1942 (vol. 1) January "John Brown House Accepted by the Society for Its Home," by George L. Miner "The City Seal of the City of Providence," by Bradford Fuller Swan "Commodore Perry Opens Japan," by A[lice] V[an] H[oesen] [?] "A Rhode Islander Goes West to Indiana," communicated by George A. White Jr. General Washington's Correspondence concerning The Society of the Cincinnati, reviewed by S. E. Morison April "The Issues of the Dorr War," by John Bell Rae "The Revolutionary Correspondence of Nathanael Greene and John Adams," by Bernhard Knollenberg "A Rhode Islander Goes West to Indiana" (continued), communicated by George A. White Jr. "Roger Williams: Leader of Democracy," reviewed by Clarence E. Sherman July "An Italian Painter Comes to Rhode Island," by Helen Nerney "Biographical Note: Sullivan Dorr," by Howard Corning "The Revolutionary Correspondence of Nathanael Greene and John Adams" (continued), by Bernhard Knollenberg "Last Meeting Held at the Old Cabinet," by B[radford] F[uller[ S[wan] "A Rhode Islander Goes West to Indiana" (continued), communicated by George A. White Jr. "The Great Suffrage Parade," communicated by John B. Rae "A Plymouth Friend of Roger Williams," by Bradford Fuller Swan "The Brown Papers: The Record of a Rhode Island Business Family," by James B. Hedges, reviewed by W. G. Roelker October "Mrs. Vice-President Adams Dines with Mr. John Brown and Lady: Letters of Abigail Adams to Her Sister Mary Cranch," notes by Martha W. Appleton "The Gilbert Stuart House," by Caroline Hazard "Order of Exercises at the Celebration of the 200th Anniversary of the Birthday of General Nathanael Greene "The Youth of General Greene," by Theodore Francis Green "General Nathanael Greene's Contributions to the War of American Independence," by William Greene Roelker "A Rhode Islander Goes West to Indiana" (continued), communicated by George A.
    [Show full text]
  • Chronicles of Brunonia
    Chronicles of Brunonia The Things They Planted Molly Jacobson Almost four hundred years ago, Roger Williams and his companions paddled down the Seekonk River and landed on the Rhode Island shore. Surrounded by wilderness, with no outside aid and scarce resources, these first settlers slowly raised their farms and homesteads, scavenged for food, and drafted laws for their community. http://dl.lib.brown.edu/cob Copyright © 2008 Molly Jacobson Written in partial fulfillment of requirements for E. Taylor’s EL18 or 118: “Tales of the Real World” in the Nonfiction Writing Program, Department of English, Brown University. Today, relics of the first European settlers of Rhode Island are buried mentally and physically by Providence. Asphalt runs over apple orchards Thomas Angell used to own. The Old State House presides over the western part of John Sweet’s fields. Waterman Street, which hugs Brown University, is the final legacy of the Englishman who lent it his name, while Brown’s English Department sits atop the northern end of his garden. The first Baptist Church in America straddles the original Francis Weston homestead. When these men and others left the Puritan settlement at Massachusetts in the early 1600s, they found immaculate countryside across the Seekonk River. Religious outcasts and enterprising colonists united to establish the Providence Plantations, laying ground for a singularly liberal colony. Today, historians herald them for their tolerance and independence. But these lofty ideals belie a more immediate human struggle. Before industry and new immigrants, the founders of Providence toiled dutifully by primitive farmhouses along the Seekonk to feed their families.
    [Show full text]
  • Exhibition Records, 1974-1976
    Exhibition Records, 1974-1976 Finding aid prepared by Smithsonian Institution Archives Smithsonian Institution Archives Washington, D.C. Contact us at [email protected] Table of Contents Collection Overview ........................................................................................................ 1 Administrative Information .............................................................................................. 1 Descriptive Entry.............................................................................................................. 1 Names and Subjects ...................................................................................................... 1 Container Listing ............................................................................................................. 2 Exhibition Records https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_251838 Collection Overview Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C., [email protected] Title: Exhibition Records Identifier: Accession 99-106 Date: 1974-1976 Extent: 3.5 cu. ft. (3 record storage boxes) (1 document box) Creator:: National Portrait Gallery. Office of Exhibitions Language: English Administrative Information Prefered Citation Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 99-106, National Portrait Gallery. Office of Exhibitions, Exhibition Records Descriptive Entry This accession consists of exhibition records pertaining to The Dye is Now Cast: The Road to American Independence, an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) from
    [Show full text]
  • Proceedings of the Rhode Island Historical Society
    7ui« <^0 [S' f/c PROCEEDINGS 4 Itode If sland mistorlol Sod^tg 1887-88 ^ i 4<'.^ de^' liLfi^Cj t^S PROCEEDINGS J Itodc Ifijlaud wiHtom ^ocietg 1 887-88 21179 Providence PRINTED FOR THE SOCIETY II J. A. & R, A. REID, PRINTERS, PROVIDENCE, R. I. TABLE OF CONTENTS. List of Officers, ....... 3 Abstract of Proceedings, ..... 5 Address of the President, ..... 10 Report of Committee on Building and Grounds, . 22 Report of Committee on the Library, . 23 Report of Committee on Publications, ... 31; of • • • • Report the Procurator, • 35 Report of the Treasurer, . ... 37 Mr. Ely's Paper on the Seal of the Society. 40 Necrology, ....... 61 List of Institutions and Corporations from which Gifts have been received, ...... 83 List of Persons from whom Gifts have been received, 84 List of Resident Members till 1S75, ... 86 List of Life Members, . • • • • • 95 List of Honorary Members, ..... q6 List of Corresponding Members, .... 99 List of the Society's Officers from its Commencement, 104 List . of Resident . Members, 1SS8, . no List of Life Members, 1888, ..... 113 Index, ........ 114 OFFICERS OF THE Rhode Island Historical Society. ELECTED JAN. lO, I SSS. President. WILLIAM GAMMELL. Vice-Presidents. Charles W. Parsons. Elisha B. Andrews. Seeretarij. Amos Perry. Treasurer. Richmond P. Everett. STANDING COMMITTEES. On Nominations. Albert Y. Jencks, William Staples, W. Maxwell Greene. On Lectures. Amos Perry, William Gammell, Reuben A. Guild. 4 RIIODK IST-AN'O IIISTOKUAI, SOlIKJV. On Building- and Grounds. Stkere, Isaac II. Southwick, *Henry J. Royal C. Tait. On the Lihrarij. Charles W. Parsons, Willlam ?>. Weeoen, Stephen II. Arnold. On Publications. WiLLLvM F.
    [Show full text]
  • Register of the Colonial Dames of Ny, 1893-1913
    THE C OLONIAL DAMES OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK REGISTER O F THE COLONIAL DAMES OFHE T STATE OF NEW YORK 1893 - 1 913- * "> '■ 5 ORGANIZED A PRIL 29th, 1893 INCORPORATED APRIL 29th, 1893 PUBLISHED B Y THE AUTHORITY OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS NEW Y ORK MCMXIII THEEW N YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 646? 1 9 ASTOR, L ENOX AND TILOeN FOUNDATIONS R 1 9'5 L. Printedy b Frederick H. Hitchcock 105 West 40th Street New York CERTIFICATE O F INCORPORATION '"aiantaiwiokiTih ( -r-^iKsmtssaittlot'.Kl CERTIFICATE O F INCORPORATION HEOF T Colonial D ames of the State of New York We, t he undersigned women, citizens of the United States and of the State of New York, all being of full age, do hereby asso ciate and form ourselves into a Society by the name, style and title of : "The C olonial Dames of the State of New York," andn i order that the said Society shall be a body corporate and politic under and in pursuance of the Act of the Legislature of the State of New York (Chapter 267), passed May 12, 1875, en~ titled "An Act for the incorporation of societies or clubs for cer tain lawful purposes," and of the several Acts of the Legislature of said State amendatory thereof, we do hereby certify : First. — T hat the name or title by which the said Society shall be known in law, shall be "The Colonial Dames of the State of New York." Second. — T hat the particular business and objects of the said Society shall be patriotic, historical, literary, benevolent and so cial, and for the purposes of perpetuating the memory of those honored men whose sacrifices and labors, in
    [Show full text]
  • Revolutionary Defences in Rhode Island
    Providence College DigitalCommons@Providence Primary Sources History & Classics 1896 Revolutionary Defences In Rhode Island Edward Field [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.providence.edu/primary Part of the United States History Commons Field, Edward, "Revolutionary Defences In Rhode Island" (1896). Primary Sources. 24. https://digitalcommons.providence.edu/primary/24 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the History & Classics at DigitalCommons@Providence. It has been accepted for inclusion in Primary Sources by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@Providence. For more information, please contact [email protected]. REVOLUTIONARY DEFENCES IN RHODE ISLAND AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE FORTIFICATIONS AND BEACONS ERECTED DURING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, WITH MUSTER ROLLS OF THE COMPANIES STATIONED ALONG THE SHORES OF NARRAGANSETT BAY BY EDWARD FIELD PAST PRESIDENT OF THE RHODE ISLAND SOCIETY OF THE SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION WITH MAPS, PLANS, AND ILLUSTRATIONS PROVIDENCE, R.I. PRESTON AND ROUNDS 1896 PREFACE. THE history of the Revolutionary De- fences in Rhode Island has occupied my leisure time at irregular intervals for several years past. Some of the earlier results of my study of the subject were embodied in a paper which I read before the Rhode Island His- torical Society on January 26, 1886, entitled, "Fortifications in and around Providence," and which was subsequently printed in the Narragansett Historical Register, No. 3, Vol. V. From this paper I have drawn largely for the material relating to the ac- count of the Providence defences; but I have now added much that was then to me unknown, and have corrected errors then made.
    [Show full text]