COLONISTS' FURY BURNED FROM NARRAGANSETT BAY TO BOSTON HARBOR

The Boston Globe | July 7, 2002| | Copyright

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After midnight on June 10, 1772, dark cloaked the waters of Narragansett Bay, where the Gaspee, a British schooner, had run aground on Namquid Point, off Warwick, R.I. Still, Joseph Bucklin could see the vessel's commander mount the starboard gunwale. Startled from his bed, Lieutenant William Dudingston wore only his shirt.

"Ephe," Bucklin said to his friend Ephraim Bowen, "reach me your gun, and I can kill that fellow."

So Bowen remembered the Rhode Islanders' attack on the Gaspee in an account published in the Providence Journal in 1839.

Bucklin and Bowen were two among scores of ...

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