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Gaspee affair
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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 customs schooner that enforced the Navigation Acts around Newport, Rhode Island, in 1772. It ran aground in shallow water while chasing the packet boat Hannah on June 9 off of Warwick, Rhode Island. A group of men led by Abraham Whipple and John Brown I attacked, boarded, and burned the Gaspee to the waterline.
An August 1883 Harper's Magazine illustration of the burning of HMS Gaspee
An 1886 engraving of the burning of the Gaspee by Sons of Liberty
An 1886 engraving of the burning of the Gaspee by Sons of Liberty
Image: Mock HMS Gaspee during 2023 Gaspee Days parade
Image: Mock HMS Gaspee during 2023 Gaspee Days parade
Image: The Hannah chased by the Gaspee parade float
Image: The Hannah chased by the Gaspee parade float
John Brown (Rhode Island politician)
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John Brown was an American merchant, politician and slave trader from Providence, Rhode Island. Together with his brothers Nicholas, Joseph and Moses, Brown was instrumental in founding Brown University and moving it to their family's former estate in Providence.
Miniature of Brown by Edward Malbone
John Brown House in Providence is a National Historic Landmark
John Brown House in Providence is a National Historic Landmark
A plaque outside Brown's residence now notes his involvement in the slave trade
A plaque outside Brown's residence now notes his involvement in the slave trade