The Gaspee Bibliography

The Joseph Bucklin Society's Gaspee bibliography is an ongoing project.   The bibliography is the largest available regarding the subject of the Gaspee attack.  Materials include not only the written materials relevant to the study of the Gaspee event itself and its consequences, but also many of the the materials regarding the Rhode Island and Massachusetts historical events directly relevant to the Gaspee attack.

Following the bibliography, below, there is a special note regarding the Park Gaspee Primary Documents List, one of the entries in the Gaspee Shelf, which itself lists scores more documents relevant to the study of the Gaspee event.

References

1. _______, Manuscript Collections. Providence, Rhode Island Historical Society.

2. _______, Moses Brown Papers, Brown, Moses. Providence, Rhode Island Historical Society.

3. Adair, D., & Schutz, J. A. (1781, 1961). Peter Oliver's origin and progress of the American rebellion. Available at San Marino, CA: Huntington Library.

4. Adams, J. (1969). Works of John Adams, second President of the United State: With a life of the author, notes and illus. by his grandson, Charles Francis Adams 1850-56. I-10, Freeport, New York: Books for Libraries Press.

5. Adams, T. R. (1965). American Independence: The growth of an idea. Providence, RI: Brown University Press.

6. Admiralty Lords. 4/3, 1773. Letter to Lord Dartmouth.

7. Alden, J. R. (1948). General Gage in America. New York: Greenwood Press.

8. Allen, J. (1773). An oration upon the beauties of liberty, or the essential rights of the Americans. Boston: D Kneeland and N Davis in Queen-Street.

9. Andrews, C. M. (1938, 1964). The colonial period of American history. I-4 New Haven and London: Yale U Press.

10. Appleton, M. (1933, June). Agents of the New England Colonies in the Revolutionary period. New England Quarterly, 6 2, 371-387.

11. Arnold, S. G. (1859-60). History of the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantation. (Vols. 1-2).

12. Backus, I. (1969). History of New England with particular reference to the Baptists. New York: Arno Press & New York Times.

13. Bailyn, B. (1965). Pamphlets of the American revolution 1750-1776. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

14. Bailyn, B. (1967). Origins of American politics. New York: Vintage Books.

15. Bailyn, B. (1974). Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

16. Bailyn, B. (1992). Ideological Origins of the American revolution. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

17. Bailyn, B. (2003). To begin the world anew: The genius and ambiguities of the American founders. New York: Knopf.

18. Bain, R. N. (1894, 1970). Gustavus III and his contemporaries 1742-1792: An overlooked chapter of 18th century history. (Vols. 1-2). New York: Bergman Publishers.

19. Baldwin, A. M. (1928). The New England clergy and the American revolution. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

20. Baldwin, L. D. (1933, June). Shipbuilding on the western waters 1793-1817. The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 20 1, 29-44.

21. Baldwin, W. E. (1856). Bouviers Law Dictionary. New York: Banks Law Publishing Company.

22. Ballagh, J. C. (1911). The letters of Richard Henry Lee. (Vols. 1-2). New York: The Macmillan Company.

23. Banks, C. E. (1966). The history of Martha's Vineyard: Dukes County, Massachusetts. (Vols. 1-3). Edgartown, MA: Dukes County Historical Society.

24. Barber, J. W. a. H., Henry. (1844). Historical collection of the state of New Jersey; containing a general collection of the most interesting facts, traditions, biographical sketches, anecdotes, etc.. New York: S Tuttle.

25. Bargar, B. D. (1965). Lord Dartmouth and the American Revolution. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press.

26. Barnes, G. R. a. O., J. H. (1932-1938). The private papers of John, Earl of Sandwich, first lord of the Admiralty, 1771-1783. London: Navy Records Society.

27. Barrell, J. (2000). Imagining the king's death: Figurative treason, fantasies of regicide 1793-1796. Oxford: Oxford U Press.

28. Barrow, T. C. (1967). Trade and Empire: The British customs service in colonial America 1660-1775. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harv U Press.

30. Bartlett, J. (1861). History of the Destruction of His Britannic Majesty's Schooner Gaspee, on the 10th of. Providence: A Crawford Greene. Bartlett draws heavily on Staples' Documentary and includes most of it, and includes material not available at the time of Staples edition. The text of this book is almost identical to material not available at the time of Staples edition. The text of this book is almost identical to pp. 57-192 in Bartlett's Records of Rhode Island, Vol 7.
 

31. Bartlett, J. (1878). History of the Wanton Family of Newport, Rhode Island. Providence: S S Rider.

32. Bartlett, J. R. (1856-65). Records of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in New England (pp. 1-10). Providence: Knowles, Vose and Anthony.

33. Bartlett, J. R. (1861). A history of the destruction of his Britannic majesty's schooner Gaspee in Narragansett Bay on the 10th June, 1772. Providence: A Crawford Greene, printer to the state.

34. Bauer, K. J. (1970, April). The United States Navy and Texas independence: A study in Jacksonian integrity (Vols. 34-2, pp. 44-48). Military Affairs.

74. Coan, M. S. (1944, June). A revolutionary prison diary: Journal of Dr. Jonathan Haskins. New England Quarterly, 17(2), 290-309.

75. Cohen, J. (1975). Molasses to Muskets - Rhode Island 1763-1775. Rhode Island History, 34(4, November).

76. Cole, J. (1999). Henry Marchant's Journal. Rhode Island History, 57, 31.  Marchant was Rhode Island's Attorney General who was in England trying to collect debts from England at the time of the Gaspee Affair.

77. Cole, J. N. (1990, May). Henry Marchant's Journal, 1771-1772. Rhode Island History, 57(2), 31-55.

78. Collins, E. D. (1902). XII-Committees of correspondence of the American revolution (Vol. 1 of 2, pp. 243-271). Annual Report of the American Historical Association for the Year 1902.

79. Comfort, J. A. (1981). Samuel Hopkins and the new divinity movement: Calvinism, the congregational ministry, and reform in New England between the great awakenings. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm B Eerdmans Publishing Company.

80. Commerce of Rhode Island 1726-1800. (1914). Norwood, MA: Plimpton Press.

81. Concannon, J. (2002). Gaspee Virtual Archives. Available: www.gaspee.org (Accessed 2002). One of the two best Internee sites for information on the Gaspee affair

82. Concannon, J., MD. MawneyBio. Available: http://www.gaspee.org/MawneyBio.html (Accessed 6/10/2002).

83. Conley, P. T. (1998). Liberty and justice: A history of law and lawyers in Rhode Island, 1636 - 1998 (pp. 1 - 526). East Providence, RI: Rhode Island Publications Society.

84. Cook, E. C. (1912, 1966). Literary influences in colonial newspapers, 1704-1750. Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, Inc.

85. Cooper, J. F. (1839). History of the Navy of the United States of American. (Vol. 1). Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard. Short account of the Gaspee incident as being the "first overt act of resistance" in the American Revolution. Unnamed sources apparently account for some minor differences in this 1839 account with that of Ephraim Bowen's account of 1839 (in which Bowen stated that he was, he thought, at 86 years of age, the last survivor of the attacking party.
 

86. Copeland, D. A. (1997). Colonial American newspapers. Newark: University of Delaware Press.

87. Record of Court Martials. 14 Oct, 1772. File: No. 46. Court Martial of Dudingston. London, Public Records Office.

88. Court Martial of Dudingston. (1991). Rhode Island Historical Society Proceedings, pp. 85-90.

89. Crane, V. W. (1950). Benjamin Franklin's letter to the press 1758-1775. Chapel Hill, NC: Inst Early Am Hist Cult.

90. Cunningham, A. R. (1903, 1969). Letters and diary of John Rowe, Boston merchant 1759-1762 1764-1779. Boston: WB Clarke Company.

91. Cushing, H. A. (1904). Writings of Samuel Adams. (Vols. 1-4). New York: GP Putnam's Sons.

92. Cushing, J. D. (1977). Earliest acts and laws of the colony of Rhode Island and Providence plantations 1647-1719. Wilmington, DE: Michael Glazier, Inc.

93. Dalzell, F. (1992, September). Prudence and the golden egg: Establishing the Federal government in Providence, Rhode Island. New England Quarterly, 65(3), 335-388.

94. Daniels, B. C. (1983). Dissent and conformity on Narragansett Bay: Colonial Rhode Island Town. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press.

95. Davidson, P. (1941). Propaganda and the American revolution 1763-1783. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

96. Davies, K. (1974). Documents of the American revolution 1770-1783. (Vols. 1-21). Shannon: Irish University Press.

97. DeVaaro, L. J. (1973). Impact of the Gaspee affair on the coming of the revolution 1772-1773. Unpublished Dissertation.

98. DeVaro, L. (1973). The Gaspee Affair as Conspiracy. Rhode Island History, 32(4, November), 107. One of the best articles on the Gaspee affair

99. DeVaro, L. (1973). The Impact of the Gaspee Affair on the Coming of the Revolution. Case Western Reserve University. A wealth of detailed narrative and documentary quotations, including excerpts from colonial newspapers.

100. DeVaro, L. J., Jr. (1973). Gaspee affair as conspiracy. Rhode Island History, 32(4), 107-121.

101. Dexter, F. B. (1901). Literary diary of Ezra Stiles. (Vols. 1-3). New York: Charles Scribner & Sons.

102. Dickerson, O. (1954, September). Commissioners of customs and the 'Boston massacre.' New England Quarterly, 27-3, 307-325.

103. Dickerson, O. (1958, June). Use made of the revenue from the tax on tea. New England Quarterly, 31(2), 232-243.

104. Dickerson, O. M. (1951). Navigation acts and the American revolution. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

105. Dickerson, O. M. (1962). American colonial government 1696-1765: A study of the British board of trade in its relation to the American colonies, political, industrial, administrative. New York: Russell & Russell.

106. Donoughue, B. (1964). British politics and the American revolution: The path to war, 1773-75. London: MacMillan & Co, Ltd.

107. Downer, S. Rhode Island Historical Society Manuscripts, 15, V. 1. 1768. File: MSS 9903. Robinson v. Brigantine Providence. Providence, Rhode Island Historical Society.

108. Dukes, R. S. (1989). Gaspee incident as a clash of cultures. Unpublished thesis.

109. Eaton, A. M. (1905, January). Development of the judicial system in Rhode Island. Yale Law J, 14 3, 148-170.

110. Einstein, L. (1933). Divided loyalties: Americans in England during the war of independence. New York: Russel & Russel.

111. Fagerstrom, D. I. (1954, April). Scottish opinion and the American revolution. William and Mary Quarterly, 11-2, 252-275.

112. Ferraro, W. M. (1996, August). Localism in Portsmouth and Foster during the revolutionary and founding periods. Rhode Island History, 54-3, 67-89.

113. Field, E. (1902). The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations at the End of the Century, A (E. Field, Ed.). Boston: Mason Pub Co.

114. Finestone, H. (1956). Bacon's rebellion: Contemporary news sheets. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press.
 

115. Fitzpatrick, J. C. (1924). Spirit of the Revolution: New light from some of the original sources of American history. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.

116. Flournoy, H. W. (1968). Calendar of Virginia state papers and other manuscripts III, 1890.

117. Foner, E. (1998). Story of American freedom. New York: WW Norton & Company.

118. Ford, P. L. (1904). Works of Thomas Jefferson. (Vols. 1-12). New York: GP Putnam's Sons.

119. Frantz, J. B. (1969). Bacon's rebellion: Prologue to the Revolution?. Lexington, MA: D C Heath and Company.

120. Gage, G. Gage Papers. 1770. Clements Library, Univ. of Michigan.

121. Gage, T. (1931-1933). Correspondence of General Thomas Gage with the secretaries of state, and with the war office and treasury, 1763-1775. (Vol. 2). New Haven: Yale U Press.

122. Gerlach, e., Larry R. (1978). Legacies of the American revolution. Utah State University.

123. Gerlach, L. (1971). Charles Dudley and the Customs Quandary in pre revolutionary Rhode Island. Rhode Island History, 30(2, May).

124. Gerlach, L. R. (1971). Charles Dudley and the customs quandry in pre-revolutionary Rhode Island. Rhode Island History, 30-2, 52-59.

125. Gipson, L. H. (1950). American revolution as an aftermath of the great war for the empire, 1754-1763. New York: Academy of Political Science.

126. Gipson, L. H. (1954). Coming of the Revolution 1763-1775. New York: Harper and Row.

127. Gipson, L. H. (1958-1970). British empire before the American revolution. (Vols. 1-15). New York: Knopf.

128. Goldowsky, S. J., M.D. (1972, September). Solomon Drowne and the Gaspee affair: A premedical student views historic event. R I Med J, 55-9, 287.

129. Gosnell, H. F. (1934, March). British royal commissions of inquiry. Political Science Quarterly, 49-1, 84-118.

130. Governors of Rhode Island. Letters to the Governors of Rhode Island. 1763 - 1775. Rhode Island State Archives, Providence.

131. Graydon, A. (1811). Memoirs of a life, chiefly passes in Pennsylvania, within the last sixty years; with occasional remarks upon the general occurrences, character and spirit of that eventful period. Harrisburg: Printed by John Wyeth.

132. Greene, G. W. (1867). Life of Nathanael Greene: Major-general in the army of the revolution. (Vols. I-3). New York: GP Putnam and Son.

133. Greene, J. P. (1968). Reinterpretation of the American revolution 1763-1789. New York and Evanston: Harper & Row.

134. Greene, J. P. (1995). Understanding the American revolution: Issues and actors. Charlottesville and London: U Press of Va.

135. Greene, J. P. (1996). Interpreting early America: Historiographical essays. Charlottesville and London: U Press of Va.

136. Greene, J. P., & Pole, J. R. (2000). A companion to the American revolution. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers.

137. Gross, R. A. (1976). Minutemen and their world. New York: Hill and Wang.

138. Gruber, I. (1969, July). American Revolution as Conspiracy: The British view. William and Mary Quarterly, XXVI, 360-372.

140. Guild, R. A. (1864). Life, times, and correspondence of James Manning, and the early history of Brown. Boston: Gould and Lincoln. Includes material on John Brown related by his grandson Gov. Frances Brown

141. Haaley, J. W. (1928). Stirring moments of Rhode Island history: Great swamp fight, the Gaspee affair, the great gale of 1815, the burning of the Lexington. Providence.

142. Hahn, H. M. (1981). Colonial schooner 1763-1775. Annapolis, MD: Naval Inst P.

143. Harper, L. A. (1959, March). Recent contributions to American economic history: American history to 1789. Journal of Economic History, 19-1, 1-24.

144. Hast, A. (1972). State treason trials during the Puritan revolution, 1640-1660. Historical Journal (Great Britain), XVI, 37-53.

145. Hatch, N. O. (1977). Sacred cause of liberty: Republican thought and the millennium in revolutionary New England. New Haven: Yale U Press.
 

146. Hay, D. (1975). Albion's fatal tree: Crime and society in eighteenth-century England. New York: Pantheon Books.

147. Headlam, C. (1924). Calendar of state papers, colonial series, America and the West Indies, preserved in the public record office. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office.

148. Hedges, J. (1941). The Brown Papers. American Antiq Soc Proceedings, 1941, 21-36.

149. Hedges, J. B. (1952). Browns of Providence Plantations: Colonial years. Cambridge, MA.

150. Herold, J. C. (1963). Age of Napoleon. New York: American Heritage Publishing Co, Inc.

151. Hibbert, C. (1990). Redcoats and rebels: The American revolution through British eyes. New York: Norton.

152. Himmer, R., ed. (1976). Perspectives on the American revolution. York Campus: The Pennsylvania University.

153. Hinkhouse, F. J. (1926). Preliminaries of the American revolution as seen in the English press. New York: Columbia University Press.

154. Historical Manuscripts Commission, E. R., Appendix. (1887). Manuscripts of the Earl of Dartmouth: Presented to both houses of parliament by command of her majesty (1-3). London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office by Eyre and Spottiswoode.

155. Holdsworth, W. E. (1924). A history of English law. Boston: Little, Brown and Company.

156. Howell, T. B. (1812). A complete collection of state trials. London: Longman, et al.

157. Howes, F. G. (191-?). History of the Town of Ashfield. Ashfield, MA.

158. Howland, J. (1840). Howland's Recollections. Rhode Island Historical Society.

159. Hulbert, A. B. (1916, July). Western Ship-Building. American Historical Review, 21(4), 720-733.

160. Hurst, J. W. (1945). Law of treason in the United States. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Corporation.
 

161. Hutchinson, P. O. (1884). Diary and letters of his excellency Thomas Hutchinson, Esq. (Vols. 1-2). Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.

162. Jackson, D. (1978). Diaries of George Washington.. Charlottesville: U Press of Va.

163. James, S. V. (1975). Colonial Rhode Island: A history. New York: Scribner's.

164. James, S. V. (2000). Colonial Metamorphoses in Rhode Island: A study of institutions in change. Hanaover and London: U Press of New England.

165. James. W. M. (1926). British Navy in adversity: A study of the war of American independence. London: Longmans, Green and Co LTD.

166. Jameson, J. F. (1923, 1970). Privateering and piracy in the colonial period. New York: Augustus M Kelley.

167. Jensen, M. (1955). English Historical Documents: American Colonial Documents to 1776. New York.

168. Jensen, M. (1967). Tracts of the American revolution 1763-1776. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc.

169. Jensen, M. (1968, 2004). Founding of a nation: A history of the American revolution, 1763-1776. New York: Oxford U Press.

170. Manuscript Collections, Vice Admiralty Court of Rhode Island. 1767. John Robinson v. the Brigantine Providence. Providence, Rhode Island Historical Society.

171. John, M. (1936). Face of revolution. New York: MacMillan Company.

172. Kaler, J. O. (1901). When we destroyed the Gaspee: A story of Narragansett Bay in 1772. Boston: Dana Estes.

173. Kaminkow, M. a. J. (1967). Mariners of the American revolution. Baltimore, MD 21215 USA: Magna Carta Book Company.

174. Kammen, M. (1978). A season of youth: The American revolution and the historical imagination. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press.

175. Kegan, e., Elizabeth Hamer. (1976). Impact of the American revolution abroad. Washington: Library of Congress.
 

176. Kemmerer, D. L. (1940). Path to freedom: The struggle for self-government in colonial New Jersey 1703-1776. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP.

177. Kennedy, J. P. (1905). Journals of the house of burgesses of Virginia. (Vols. 1-2). Richmond, VA: Library Board of the Virginia State Library.

178. Kimball, G. S. (1903). Correspondence of the colonial governors of Rhode Island 1723-1775. (Vols. 1-2). Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company.

179. Kiracofe, D. J. (1995). Treason and the development of national identity in revolutionary America, 1775-1815. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Connecticut.

180. Knox, H. B. (1908). Destruction of the Gaspee. Providence: Dept of Education, State of Rhode Island.

181. Kukla, J. (1985, April). Order and chaos in early America: Political and social stability in pre-restoration Virginia. American Historical Review, 90(2), 275-298.

182. Kurtz, S. G., & Hutson, J. H. (1973). Essays on the American revolution. Williamsburg, VA: Inst Early Am Hist Cult.

183. Labaree, B. (1964). The Boston tea party. London: Oxford U Press. One of the best writings on the Gaspee Affair

184. Labaree, B. W. (1975). Atlantic world of Robert G. Albion. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press.

185. Labaree, B. W. e. a. (1998). America and the sea; a maritime history. Mystic, CT: Mystic Seaport.

186. Labaree, B. W. (1964). Boston tea party. New York: Oxford U Press.

187. Lancaster, J. (1999, August/November). By the pens of females': Girls' diaries from Rhode Island, 1788-1821. Rhode Island History, 57(3 & 4), 59-113.

188. Langford, P. e. (1981). Writings and speeches of Edmund Burke. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

189. Leadership of Virginia in the War of the Revolution: Part III. (1911, April). William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, 19 4, 219-262.

190. Lemay, J. A. L. (1986). Canon of Benjamin Franklin 1722-1776. Newark: University of Delaware Press.
 

191. Lemisch, J. (1968, July). Jack Tar in the streets: Merchant seamen in the politics of revolutionary America. William and Mary Quarterly, 25(3), 371-407.

192. Lemisch, J. (1997). Jack Tar vs John Bull: The role of New York's seamen in precipitating the revolution. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc.

193. Lemons, J. S. (2002, Fall). Rhode Island and the slave trade. Rhode Island History, 60(4), 95-104.

194. Leslie, W. (1952-1953). The Gaspee Affair: A study of its constitutional significance. Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 39, 233-56. One of the best articles on the Gaspee affair

195. Leslie, W. R. (1952, September). Gaspee Affair: A study of its constitutional significance. Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 39(2), 233-256.

196. Longley, R. S. (1933, March). Mob activities in revolutionary Massachusetts. New England Quarterly, 6(1), 98-130.

197. Longman, e. a. (1813). Parliamentary History of England from the earliest period to the year 1803. London.

198. Lovejoy, D. S. (1955, July). Henry Marchant and the mistress of the world. William and Mary Quarterly, 12(3), 375-398.

199. Lovejoy, D. S. (1958). Rhode Island Politics and the American revolution 1760-1776. Providence, Rhode Island: Brown University Press.

200. Lucas, P. R. (1967, January). Colony or commonwealth: Massachusetts Bay, 1661-1666. William and Mary Quarterly, 24(1), 88-107.

201. Maclay, E. S. (1904). Moses Brown captain USN. New York: Baker and Taylor Company.

202. Maier, P. (1963). John Wilkes and American disillusionment with Britain. William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Series, 20, 373-395.

203. Maier, P. (1970, January). Popular uprisings and civil authority in eighteenth-century America. William and Mary Quarterly, 27(1), 3-35.

204. Maier, P. (1972). From resistance to revolution: Colonial radicals and the development of American opposition to Britain, 1765-1776. New York: Knopf.

205. Maier, P. (1976, February). Coming to terms with Samuel Adams. American Historical Review, 81(1), 12-37.
 

206. Malone, J. J. (1964). Pine trees and politics: The naval stores and forest policy in colonial New England 1691-1775. Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press.

207. Marinelli, M. M. (1962). Investigation of the Gaspee attack: A reappraisal. Unpublished thesis.

208. Martin, A. S. (1948, April). King's customs: Philadelphia, 1763-1774. William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Series, 5(2), 201-216.

209. Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings October, 1916 - June, 1917. (1917). Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society.

210. May, W. E. (1977). Gaspee affair. Mariner's Mirror [Great Britain], 63(2), 129-135.

211. May, W. (1977). The Gaspee Affair. Mariner's Mirror, 63(May), 129-136. Much less reliable than other accounts

212. Mayo, L. S. (1936). History of the colony and province of Massachusetts-Bay by Thomas Hutchinson. (Vols. 1-3). Cambridge, MA: Harv U Press.

213. McDonald, F. (1962). Empire and nation: Letters from a farmer in Pennsylvania, John Dickinson and letters from the Federal farmer, Richard Henry Lee. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc.

214. McLoughlin, W. G. (1969, Winter). Massive civil disobedience as a Baptist tactic in 1773. AQ, 21(4), 710-727.

215. McLoughlin, W. G. (1971). New England dissent 1630-1833: The Baptists and the separation of church and state. (Vols. 1-2). Cambridge Massachusetts: Harv U Press.

216. McLoughlin, W. G. (1991). Soul liberty: The Baptists' struggle in New England, 1630-1833. Hanover and London: Brown University Press and University Press of New England.

217. Meyer, F. V. (1948). Britain's colonies in world trade. London: Oxford U Press.

218. Miller, E. I. (1913, July). Virginia committee of correspondence 1759-1770. William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, 22(1), 1-19.

219. Miller, E. I. (1913, October). Virginia Committee of correspondence of 1773-1775. William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, 22(2), 99-113.

220. Miller, H. H. (1965). Case for liberty. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

221. Miller, J. C. (1943, 1959). Origins of the American revolution. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

222. Mollet du Jourdin, M. (1993). Europe and the sea. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers.

223. Monahon, C. (1952). Correspondence of Governor Samuel Ward May 1775-March 1776. Providence, Rhode Island: Rhode Island Historical Society.

224. Monahon, C. P. (1957, July). Nathanael Greene's Letters to 'friend Sammy' Ward. Rhode Island History, 16(2), 79-89.

228. Montague, J., Admiral. 1772. File: No. 17, Admirals' Journals. Admiral's Journal. Public Record Office, London.

229. Moore, W. H. (1913, June). Executive commissions of inquiry. Colum L Rev, 13(6), 500-523.

230. Morgan, E. S. (1967, January). Puritan Ethic and the American revolution. William and Mary Quarterly, 24(1), 3-43.

231. Morgan, E. S., & Morgan, H. M. (1953). Stamp Act crisis: Prologue to revolution. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

232. Morison, S. E. (1965). Sources and documents illustrating the American revolution 1764-1788 and the formation of the Federal constitution. New York: Oxford U Press.

233. Morris, R. B. (1939). Era of the American revolution. New York: Columbia University Press.

234. Munro, J. (1908-1912, 1966). Acts of the privy council of England: Colonial series. (Vols. 1-6). Nendeln, Leichtenstein: Kraus Reprint Ltd.

235. Munro, W. H. (1917). Tales of an old sea port: A general sketch of the history of Bristol, Rhode Island. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP.

236. Murphy, P. L. (1963, October). Time to reclaim: The current challenge of American constitutional history. American Historical Review, 69(1), 64-79.

237. Nash, G. B. (2005). Unknown American revolution: The unruly birth of democracy and the struggle to create America. New York: Viking.

238. Neville, J. D. (1976). Bacon's rebellion: Abstract of materials in the colonial records project. Jamestown Foundation.

239. Newman, A. H. (1915). A history of the Baptist churches in the United States. New York: Charles Scibner's Sons.

240. Nicolson, C. (2001). "Infamas Govener": Francis Bernard and the origins of the American revolution. Boston: Northeastern University Press.

241. Noll, M. A. (1977). Christians in the American revolution. Washington, D.C.: Christian University Press.

242. Norton, M. B. (1971, January). John Randolph's "plan of accommodations." William and Mary Quarterly, 21(1), 103-120.

243. Novick, P. (1988). That noble dream: The "objectivity question" and the American historical profession. Cambridge: Cambridge U Press.

244. Olney, J. H. (1889). A genealogy of the descendants of Thomas Olney: An original proprietor of Providence, RI (pp. 1 - 293). Providence: Freeman & Son.

245. Osgood, H. L. (1924). American colonies in the eighteenth century. (Vols. 1-3). New York: Columbia University Press.

246. Pamphlets and the American revolution: Rhetoric, politics, literature and the popular press. (1976) (J. R. Irvine & G. J. Gravlee, Eds.). Delmar, NY: Scholar's Facsimiles & Reprints.

247. Pamphlets and the American revolution: Rhetoric, politics, literature, and the popular press. (1976) (G. J. a. I. Gravlee, James R, Ed.). Delmar New York: Scholars' Facsimiles and Reprints.

248. Park, S. (2006). Park Gaspee Primary Documents List (Joseph Bucklin Society) (L. H. Bucklin, Ed.). Tempe, AZ: Joseph Bucklin Society. A listing by Park of primary documents regarding the Gaspee ship and attack of 1772, many of them in English public records offices. Rearrangement and some editing by Leonard Bucklin

249. Parker, C. (1990). English historical tradition since 1850. Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers LTD.

250. Patterson, S. E. (1968). A history of political parties in revolutionary Massachusetts 1770-1780., University of Wisconsin.
 

251. Patterson, S. E. (1973). Political parties in revolutionary Massachusetts. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.

252. Perry, R. L. e. (1959). Sources of our liberties: Documentary origins of individual liberties in the United States constitution and bill of rights. New York: Associated college Presses.

253. Polishook, I. H. (1969). Rhode Island and the Union 1774-1795. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press.

254. Preston, H. W. (1932). Rhode Island and the sea. Providence: State Bureau of Information.

255. Quincy, J. (1875). Memoir of the life of Josiah Quincy, Junior, of Massachusetts Bay. Boston: Little, Brown and Company.

256. Rawson, J. A., Jr. (1922, 11 June). Uncelebrated burning of H. M. S. Gaspee. New York Times Book Review and Magazine.

257. Reid, J. (1977). A defiant stance (pp. 1 - 225). University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State Univ Press. Discussion of "Whig" law. Colonial law was locally controlled, and as a result imperial law was almost nonexistent as a viable influence on individuals. The nature of imperial law, and theadherence of English forces to the constitutional imperial law impaired the effectiveness of the British army and navy as police forces before and during the Revolution. This is a book by a lawyer, who understands the legal proceedings overlooked by most historians.
 

258. Reid, J. P. (1979). In a rebellious spirit: The argument of facts, the liberty riot, and the coming of the American revolution. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press.

259. Repplier, A. (1898). Philadelphia: The place and the people. New York: MacMillan Company.

260. Rhode Island officials. (1861). Records of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations 1757 to 1769 (J. R. Bartlett, Ed.) (Vol. 4). Providence: Knowles, Anthony & Co.

261. Rhode Island officials. (1862). Records of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations 1770 to 1776 (J. R. Bartlett, Ed.). Providence: A Crawford Greene. A list of Rhode Island officials elected in May 1772 is at Vol 7, pp 42-45
 

262. Robinson, N. (1984). Revolutionary Fire: The Gaspee Incident. Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities. A good, short, description of the Gaspee Affair and its background.

263. Rodger, N. (1993). Insatiable Earl: A life of John Montagu, fourth earl of Sandwich 1718-1792. New York and London: Norton.

264. Rodger, N. (2004). Command of the ocean: A naval history of Britain 1649-1815. London: National Maritime Museum.

265. Rude, G. (1959). London 'mob' of the eighteenth century. Historical Journal, 2(1), 1-18.

266. Rudolph, L. I. (1959, Winter). Eighteenth century mob in America and Europe. AQ, 11(4), 447-469.

267. Saints & revolutionaries: Essays on early American history. (1984) (D. D. Hall, J. M. Murrin, & T. W. Tate, Eds.). New York: Norton.

268. Salisbury, J. H. (1869, Feb 25). Nathan Salisbury involvement in Gaspee affair ( Stephen Salisbury, Trans.). American Antiquarian Society. (American Antiquarian Society, 186 Salisbury Street, Worcester, MA 01609). Affirms that Nathan Salisbury was involved in the Gaspee attack, as an officer of an artillery company that shot cannon at the Gaspee as part of the 1772 attack Hearsay and contains several probable errors, including the error that artillery shelled the Gaspee.

269. Scharf, J. T., & Westcott, T. (1884). History of Philadelphia 1609-1884. (Vols. 1-3). Philadelphia: L H Everts & Co.

270. Schlesinger, A. M. (1954, January). A note on songs as patriot propaganda 1765-1776. William and Mary Quarterly, 11(1), 78-88.

271. Schlesinger, A. M. (1955, 30 August). Political mobs and the American revolution 1765-1776. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 99(4), 244-250.

272. Schonback, M. (1964). Radicals and visionaries: A history of dissent in New Jersey. Princeton, NJ: D Van Nostrand Company, Inc.

273. Shapiro, A. H. (1993, Autumn). Political theory and the growth of defensive safeguards in criminal procedure: The origins of the treason trials act of 1696. Law and History Review, 11(2), 215-255.

274. Sheidley, H. W. (1998). Sectional nationalism: Massachusetts conservative leaders and the transformation of America, 1815-1836.

275. Smith, C. W. (1967). Reexamination of the Gaspee affair as a cause of the American revolution. Unpublished thesis.

276. Smith, G. C. (1940, January). An era of non-importation associations, 1768-73. William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, 20(1), 84-98.

277. Smith, L. B. (1986). Treason in Tudor England: Politics and paranoia. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP.

278. Snowdon, R. (1796). American revolution: Written in scriptural, or, ancient historical style. Baltimore: W Pechin.

279. Sosin, J. M. (1965). Agents and merchants: British colonial policy and the origins of the American Revolution, 1763-1775. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

280. Sparks, J. (1836-1840). Works of Benjamin Franklin. (Vols. 1-10). Boston: H Gray and Co.

281. Staples, W. (1990). Documentary History of the Destruction of the Gaspee (R. Deasy, Ed.) (pp. 1 - 138, plus 54 of introduction). Providence: Rhode Island Publications Society. The definitive book from which to start Gaspee research. A fairly complete record of legal and official papers and correspondence. Deasy has added to the original Staples book some supplemental materials plus his own valuable observations.
 

282. Staples, W. R. (1845, 1990). Documentary History of the destruction of the Gaspee. Providence: Knowles, Voss, and Anthony.

283. Staples, W. R. (1870). Rhode Island in the continental congress. Providence: Providence Press Company, Printers to the State.

284. Starr, E. C. (1947). A Baptist bibliography: Being a register of printed material by and about Baptists: Including works written against the Baptists (Section A). Philadelphia, PA: Judson Press.

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286. Stephen, J. F. (1883). A history of the criminal law of England. (Vol. II). London: Macmillan and Co.

287. Stout, H. S. (1986). New England soul: Preaching and religious culture in colonial New England. New York: Oxford U Press.

288. Stout, N. R. (1967). Gaspee Affair. Mankind, 1(1), 48-51, 89-92.

289. Stout, N. R. (1973). Royal navy in America 1760-1775. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Inst P.

290. Sutherland, L. S. (1960). Correspondence of Edmund Burke. Chicago, IL: U Chic Press.

291. Sypek, S. (1969). An evaluation of the Gaspee commission of inquiry. Unpublished thesis.

292. Tate, T. W. (1962, July). Coming of the revolution in Virginia: Britain's challenge in Virginia's ruling class, 1763-1776. William and Mary Quarterly, 19(3), 323-343.

293. Thomas, L. J. (1960). Partisan politics in Massachusetts during Governor Bernard's administration, 1760-1770. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Wisconsin.

294. Thompson, E. (1971). Moral economy of the English crowd in the eighteenth century. Past and Present 50, pp. 76-136.

295. Thompson, M. (1962). Moses Brown, Reluctant Reformer (pp. 1 - 316). Williamsburg, VA: Univ of North Carolina Press. F 83 B875

296. Thompson, M. E. (1959, July). Ward-Hopkins controversy and the American revolution in Rhode Island: An interpretation. William and Mary Quarterly, 16(3), 363-375.

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300. Ubbelohde, C. (1960). Vice-Admiralty Courts and the American revolution. Williamsburg, Virginia: Inst Early Am Hist Cult.

301. Ubbelohde, C. (1968). American colonies and the British empire, 1607-1763. New York: Crowell.
 

302. Upton, L. (1965, April). Proceedings of ye body respecting the tea. William and Mary Quarterly, 22(2), 287-300.

303. Van Tassel, D. D. (1956, July). Henry Barton Dawson: A nineteenth-century revisionist. William and Mary Quarterly, 13(3), 319-341.

304. Various. Bucklin Family Archives. Tempe, AZ, Joseph Bucklin Society.

305. Warner, J. (2004). John the Painter: Terrorist of the American revolution. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press.

306. Warren, M. O. (1805). History of the rise, progress and termination of the American revolution interspersed with biographical, political and moral observations. (Vols. 1-2). Indianapolis: Liberty Classics.

307. Washburn, W. E. (1972). Governor and the rebel: A history of Bacon's rebellion in Virginia. New York: Norton.

308. Webb, S. S. (1984). 1676 The end of American independence. New York: Knopf.

309. Wedderburn, A., & Thurlow, S. 10 Aug, 1772. Report to Hillsborough. Public Record Office, Colonial Office, London.

310. Wells, W. V. (1865-1888). Life and public service of Samuel Adams: Being a narrative of his acts and opinions, and of his agency in producing and forwarding the American revolution. (Vols. 1-3). Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press.

311. West, S. (1805). Sketches of the life of the late Rev. Samuel Hopkins, D.D.. Hartford: Printed by Hudson and Goodwin.

312. Whipple, G. (1999). Commodore Abraham Whipple.

313. Wickwire, F. B. (1963, October). John Pownall and British colonial policy. William and Mary Quarterly, 20(4), 543-554.

314. Wickwire, F. B. (1966). British subministers and colonial America 1763-1783. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton UP.

315. Wiener, F. B. (1930, July). Rhode Island Merchants and the sugar act. New England Quarterly, III, 464-500.

316. Wiener, F. B. (1932, November). Notes on the Rhode Island admiralty, 1727-1790. Harv L Rev, 46(1), 44-90.

317. Wilbour, B. O. (1892). Destruction of the Gaspee and the reasons therefore. Providence.

318. Willcox, e. W. B. (1976). Papers of Benjamin Franklin (1-37). New Haven: Yale U Press.

319. Wilson, J. G. (1889-1900). Appleton's cyclopedia of American biography. New York: D Appleton and Co.

320. Wood, G. S. (1982, July). Conspiracy and the paranoid style: Causality and deceit in the Eighteenth century. William and Mary Quarterly, 39(3), 401-441.

321. Wood, G. S. (1991). Radicalism of the American revolution. New York: Vintage Books.

322. Woodstrup, T. Captain Benjamin Page, A Forgotten Rhode Island Hero of the American Revolution..

323. Wulsin, E. (1944). The political consequences of the burning of the Gaspee. Rhode Island History, 3, 1-11, 55-64. One of the best articles on the Gaspee affair

324. Wulsin, E. (1944, January). Political consequences of the burning of the Gaspee Part I. Rhode Island History, III, 1-11.

325. Wulsin, E. (1944, April). Political consequences of the burning of the Gaspee Part II. Rhode Island History, III, 55-64.

326. York, N. L. (1992). The Uses of Law and the Gaspee Affair. Rhode Island History, 50, 3-22. One of the best discussions on the colonial use of law and how it underlay the colonist's response to the Gaspee's attempt to enforce the imperial customs laws.
 

327. York, N. L. (1992). Uses of Law and the Gaspee affair. Rhode Island History, 50(1), 2-21.

328. Young, A. F. (1976). American revolution: Explorations in the history of radicalism. Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press.

329. Zobel, H. (1965). Law and authority in colonial America (G. Billias, Ed.).

330. Zobel, H. (1970). The Boston Massacre. New York: W W Norton. One of the best writings on the Gaspee Affair

Park Gaspee Primary Documents List

Gaspee Scholar Stephen Park has spent years studying the Gaspee affair and has produced a list of several hundred primary documents bearing on the Gaspee Affair. The list is a monument to Park's industry.   Park has graciously furnished us his list of primary sources. We have sorted the documents by date, and have placed in a PDF available here though this additional efforts of the Joseph Bucklin Society.  (Note: where Park has not listed a date for the document, we have followed his list and left the item undated, and placed those items at the end of the list.  Some, however, can be clearly dated by internal evidence to dates which occur in the first pages of this listing.) 

We call the list as sorted by us and as available here the Park Gaspee Primary Documents List.  The List is itself a document contained in our Joseph Bucklin Society's Gaspee Bibliography.

Park's list includes the fruits of his investigation of  primary sources held in England in The Public Record Office (now called the National Archives) in Kew Gardens.  The English National Archives holds the original records of the following governmental bodies, for the years shown (The coding letter Park assigned in his listing, to the documentary area of the English record, is shown in parenthesis.)

We have kept this coding scheme in the Park Gaspee Primary Documents List.