• Buy the Book (Amazon.com link) -- The Documentary History of the Destruction of the Gaspee -- by William R. Staples
•  Hypertext version of Staples' Gaspee , the 1990 republication as above. Not as warm around a fireplace as the real book, but it DOES allow text string searches! Total of ~200 pages. (Link courtesy of RI Publications Society, with permission)

• Forward --by Dr. Patrick Conley. Includes Cover, Titles, and Contents. (Pages i -x)
• Introduction -- by Professor Richard M. Deasy of Providence College. An analysis essay of Staples, and the Gaspee Affair. (Pages xi-liv)
• Destruction of the Gaspee -- by William R. Staples. (298 Kb,  Pages 1-110).
• Appendix A  -- Collected documents from Bartlett on the Gaspee. (Pages 111-128)
• Appendix B --  Collected documents from the RI Historical Society on the Gaspee Affair. (Pages 129-138)
  

A History of the Destruction of His Britannic Majesty's Schooner Gaspee.... .-- by John R. Bartlett.  We dare you to quote the whole title!

The Impact of the Gaspee Affair on the Coming of the Revolution, 1772-1773  --  Lawrence J. DeVaro. PhD dissertation, 1973 (754 Kb, 358 pages .doc)

Revolutionary Fire: The Gaspee Incident  [50 Kb ~20 pages]. (Link courtesy of the RI Council for the Humanities.)

What's the Importance of the Gaspee Affair? -- by Dr. John Concannon

MULTIMEDIA: The Conspiracy to Destroy the Gaspee -- by Dr. John Concannon--PowerPoint

• Media Facts Sheet About the Gaspee Affair -- The essentials for the Press.
  

Ephraim Bowen's Account

Lieutenant Dudingston's Story       (see original)

Statement of Dr.  John Mawney

Deposition of Aaron Briggs

Deposition of Daniel Vaughan

An Unsigned Letter from a Spy to Admiral Montagu

Governor Wanton's Reward Offer      (see reconstructed)

King George III's Reward Offer       (see original)      (see reconstructed)

Instructions of King George III to the Gaspee Commissioners       (see original)

The Gaspee Commissioners Report to King George III       (see original)

 Letters from Massachusetts Governor Thomas Hutchinson

Chief Justice Horsmanden's Report to the Earl of Dartmouth       (see original)

Letters from Samuel Adams on the Gaspee Incident

Letter from John Adams on the Gaspee Incident

Reverend John Allen's Oratory on the Gaspee Incident

London newspaper, July 1772

Gentleman's Magazine, London, July 1773

Rescue Mission to Save John Brown

Letter from Charles Dudley to Admiral Montagu

George Washington's Reaction to the Gaspee Incident

• Those that burned the Gaspee--the 'Official' List
  
• List of Individuals Involved in the Gaspee Incident  (Link courtesy of the RI Committee for the Humanities)
• The Crew of the Gaspee -- We know them all
  
• Providence 1770 Taxpayer List -- Many suspects
• Lt. William Dudingston -- our villian was a Scotsman
  
• Admiral John Montagu --  the salty sailor that hated Rhode Islanders
• Governor Joseph Wanton -- Loyalist...or was he not?
• The Gaspee Commissioners -- boringly Tory
  
• King George III biography  -- (very brief from The Bridge of Pawtuxet Village)
• Daniel Vaughan -- Key counter-witness, but was he a plant?
• Capt John Linzee -- Ironic, ain't it?
• Relationships between Those That Burned the Gaspee -- It was all in the family
  

• Collections of the Rhode Island Historical Society, pertinent articles digitally re-presented (OCR pdf)
  
• Annals of the Town of Providence -- William R Staples, 1845
• The British Fleet in Rhode Island -- George C. Mason, 1885
  
  
• Proceedings of The Rhode Island Historical Society, pertinent articles-digitally re-presented (OCR pdf)
  
• 1888-1889--New addition to RIHS Collections --Re George Washington Bridge built by John Brown
• 1890-1891--Added documents from research done at Kew (included in Staples reprinting)
  
  
• Rhode Island History courtesy RI Historical Society, pertinent articles-digitally re-presented (OCR pdf)
  
• The Political Consequences of the Burning of the Gaspee--by Eugene Wulsin, Jan, Apr 1942
  
• John Brown's Katy--by George L. Miner, July 1943
  
• Joseph Brown, Scientist and Architect by J. Walter Wilson July, October 1945
  
• HMS Gaspee--The Court Martial--by Samuel W Bryant, July 1966
  
• Rhode Island Justice--1772 Vintage--by Samuel W. Bryant, July 1967
  
• Joseph Brown, Astronomer--by Stuart F. Crump, Jr, January 1968
  
• Charles Dudley and the Customs Quandary in Pre-Revolutionary RI --by Larry R. Gerlach, April 1971
  
• The Gaspee Affair as Conspiracy--by Lawrence J. DeVaro, Jr., October 1973
  
• Molasses to Muskets--by Joel A. Cohen, November 1975
  
• Sea Captains Carousing in Surinam--by Robert W. Kenny, November 1977
  
• The Uses of Law and the Gaspee Affair--Neil L. York, February 1992
  
• Rhode Island and the Slave Trade--by  J. Stanley Lemons, Fall 2002
  
• John Brown's India Point--by Caroline Frank, November 2003
  
• The Browns and the Baptists--by J. Stanley Lemons, Summer/Fall 2009

Sparking the Revolution -- by Gerald M. Carbone

The Gaspee Affair: A Study of Its Constttutional Significance -- (81 Kb) by William Lesl1e

 The Story of the Gaspee -- by Lewis Taft

Gaspee: Prelude to the Revolution -- by Alex Gabbard

Conflicts That Led Up to the Burning of the Gaspee -- by Susan Danforth

 Excerpt of the Gaspee Affair -- by Catherine Williams, 183

 "The Conspiracy to Destroy the Gaspee", by John Concannon, J Amer. Rev., March, 2018

The Gaspee Affair -- by John Williams Haley

Clergy and Press Reaction to Gaspee's Burning -- by Frances Segerson

 The Destruction of the Gaspee and the Reasons Therefore -- by Mrs. B. O. Wilbour

 The Gaspee Affair -- by Hubert H. Bancroft

The Gaspee Affair -- by W. E. May, The Mariner's Mirror, 1977

• The Impending Revolution-- from Charles Carroll's Rhode Island: Three Centuries of Democracy. (184 Kb, pages 233-272) 
• History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (1859) -- Samuel Green Arnold (Scroll down from blank)
  
• Rhode Island-centric Timeline of the Revolution. 1763-1789
  
• American Affairs 1760-1783 -- A British view of the Revolutionary era (Link courtesy of A Web of English History)
• The Sons of Liberty (Link courtesy of History.com)
  
• The Result of the Gaspee Affair:  The Committee of Correspondence  (Link courtesy of USHistory.org)
• Revolution in Three Acts  -- Colorful writings about Rhode Island's role in the Revolution, including the Gaspee affair, --by Lucia Hammond Wheeler (1936)
• A Naval History of the American Revolution --by Gardner W. Allen  (Link courtesy of americanrevolution.com)
• British Naval Terms and Slang  (Link courtesy of hmsrichmond.org)
• Royal Navy Articles of War -1749   (Link courtesy of hmsrichmond.org)
• Life on British Navy Schooner, 1768 -1772  (Link courtesy of the Sultana Projects)
• The Maritime History Virtual Archives  (Link courtesy of Lars Bruzelius)
• How to Read 18th Century British-American Writing  (Link courtesy of  DoHistory.org)
• Letter Writing Style of 1775  (Link courtesy of hmsrichmond.org)
• 18th Century Primary Sources -- Links to original documents related to Colonial and Revolutionary America, except Gaspee, of course! (Link courtesy Fordham University)
• Maritime History on the Internet  (Link courtesy of Peter McCracken)-VERY USEFUL RESEARCH TOOLS!
  
• The Providence Plantations for 250 Years -- William Arnold Greene (1886)
• Providence in Colonial Times -- Gertrude Selwyn Kimball (1912)
  

• Did or did not the Gaspee Raiders disguise themselves as Indians?
• Was the weapon that Joseph Bucklin fired a long musket or a pistol?
• Can the Gaspee Affair be compared to the present day war on drugs?
• Who was the Joseph Bucklin who fired the Gaspee shot?
• How many longboats does it take to attack the Gaspee?
• How big were the longboats that attacked the Gaspee?
• What was John Brown's Defense?
• What is the proper pronunciation of the word "Gaspee"?
• Were there any lives lost during the Gaspee Affair?
• The use of law enforcement as a reason for the attack on the Gaspee -- (courtesy Gaspee.info)
•  Did a Cannon Fire on the Gaspee?
• Were the Gaspee Raiders terrorists? -- a blog discussion
• Why We Celebrate the Gaspee Affair -- a uniquely alternative discussion
• Was the Gaspee burned to protect slavery? -- an op-ed battle from the Providence Journal
  
• The Conspiracy to Destroy the Gaspee -- It was all a vile plot!
  

• Notes on the Possible Construction and Rigging of the Gaspee -- by Jack Silvia
• The Gaspee Prior to 1772 -- "Better here than in Philadelphia....."
• Expeditions to Find the Gaspee--What's left....and what's left to the imagination.
• RI Marine Archaeology Project -- Much ado with Revolutionary shipwrecks
  
• Geological Survey of Gaspee Point, 1902 -- Gee, we didn't know what a cuspate foreland was!
  
• Detailed Map of Narragansett Bay in 1772 -- by Charles Blaskowitz
• Saturday Evening Post, August 1829 -- an amusing account of the Gaspee Affair
• A Night at Sabin's Inn -- by Hazel Kennedy
• A Night at Sabin's Tavern -- by Edward Field
• Cellar Imprisonment of the Gaspee Crewmen-- by Hazel Kennedy
• Excerpt from Pictoral Field Guide to the Revolution -- by Benson Lossing
• List of RI State Archives Holdings re:  the Gaspee Affair
• False Pathways in Researching the Gaspee Affair -- What our Gaspee isn't!
• Info on the RI Historical Society Library -- Links to their website
• Tips on Research at Providence's Old North Burial Ground -- by Leonard Bucklin
• Gaspee Days Committee History Files -- Not about the Gaspee Affair itself, but about the Committee that celebrates
  
• Gaspee Days Media Center -- selected files in larger format for the news media
  
• The Gaspee Incident in Fiction -- Fictional works that relate to the Gaspee
• The Joseph Bucklin Society  -- a great, complimentary web site resource on the Gaspee Affair
•  Rehoboth, Massachusetts -- curious connections to people that burnt the Gaspee
• George Washington Celebrates the Gaspee -- compleat with fireworks!
• Virginia Gazette -- links to selected articles of famous colonial newspaper
• Newport skirmish -- Rhode Islanders ambush the British outside Newport, Jan, 1773
• Dudingston's Petition to the King for Relief -- Great drama.
• Gaspee Point aerial drone flyover -- a moving aerial perspective.
• A Singular Hypochondriac -- One wife's reaction
  

Burn the Gaspee -- by Samuel S. Kretman

Failures Make History Too -- by Jim Boren

Gaspee Song --Attributed to Capt. Thomas Swan -- Video Recited by Mark Williams

The Gaspee Affair -- by Rosetta Desrosiers

Ballad of the Gaspee Affair -- by Robert Archetto

The Last Cruise of the Gaspee -- by George L. Raymond

A Recipe for Revolution -- author unknown

First Blow for Freedom -- by Marjorie Clegg

Gaspee Days -- by Ed Holden

"Burn the Gaspee!" -- by Michael J. Moakler

"The Burning of the Gaspee" -- Anonymous, 1800

The Burning of the Gaspee -- by Karen Girouard, 2008

Yankee Privateer--Sea Chantey about Abraham Whipple, the leader of the attack on the Gaspee

Dialogue between Cuffee and his Master -- Colorful letter to the editor

Burning of the Gaspee, 1772 -- by Deborah Halliday, Ed.D

• Curriculum Aids from the Sultana Project. The Sultana is a re-creation of a British revenue schooner c1768 that now serves as a sailing classroom in Chesapeake Bay.  It is very similar to the Gaspee.  (All links courtesy of Sultana Projects, Inc., all are .pdf  files)

  • Sultana's Colonial History classroom unit, entitled Sea of Change: Sultana, the Tea Taxes and the Dawn of the American Revolution is targeted towards 4-6th grade students. The unit examines the world of pre-Revolutionary America through the lens of the 1768 British Royal Navy tax collecting schooner Sultana. The unit can function as a stand alone curriculum as well as a pre-trip primer for students sailing on Sultana.
    
  • Guide to Sultana:  Written for an adult audience, this pocket guide contains all the information you would ever want to know about Sultana's history, construction, and educational mission.  The pocket guide contains copies of the original 1768 drawings of Sultana and a listing of all of the 101 crew members who served aboard her from 1768-1772.

• Script samples for Walking Tour of Historic Pawtuxet Village -- Make us proud!
  
  
• Elementary School Level:  
• Notes on Presenting the Gaspee Affair to a 4th Grade Class -- by a proud father
• Powerpoint Presentation: "The Burning of the Gaspee"--(2.3 Mb) by Josh Brandes, 5th Grade student at
  
Jewish Community Day School of RI, Jamie Faith Woods, teacher.

• Middle/Junior High Level 
• Appropriate Text:  The Destruction of the 'Gaspee' -- (28Kb) by Horatio Knox - 1908

• High School/College Level:
  
• PowerPoint Presentation: "The Conspiracy to Destroy the Gaspee" by Dr. John Concannon
• Gaspee & the Committees of Correspondence history lesson plan -- Douglas E. Miller
• Just and Right as Any Trade -- RIHS lesson plans and materials tackling the difficult subject of RI and the slave trade
  
• Suggested Student Questions re: The Gaspee Incident -- by John Ryder, RIM
• The Gaspee Incident-Rhode Island�s Maritime Heritage -- localized lesson plan for RI students (.doc)
  
• Curriculum Aid:  Notes to Accompany Revolutionary Fire: The Gaspee Incident (all links courtesy of the Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities)

Introduction

Notes for Teachers on Using the Study Guide

Notes for Teachers on the Gaspee Study Guide Narrative

Suggested Activities That Can Be Used in Either Preparation for the Drama/Discussion Presentation or as Post Presentation Experiences

Notes on Current Issues Suggested by the Gaspee Incident

Bibliography -- (for Revolutionary Fire only...not exhaustive)

• Public/Historian PowerPoint: "The Conspiracy to Destroy the Gaspee" (2018)
• The Conspiracy to Destroy the Gaspee: Continually updated research paper
  
  
• Hands-on Primary Source Documents
  
• Reconstructed Reward Poster from Gov. Wanton -- prints to 8.5 x 11
• Reconstructed Reward Poster from King George III -- prints to 8.5 x 11
• Reconstructed Gaspee 'Song' poem -- prints to 8.5 x 11

• Burning of the Schooner Gaspee -- by Troop 1 Gaspee Plateau, Boy Scouts of America
• All about the Gaspee Days Parade
• Fun Things to Do -- Providence Revolutionary Bike Tour
  

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