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The Gaspee Raiders
 Paul Allen
Aaron Briggs
Ephraim Bowen
Abial Brown
John Brown
Joseph Brown
Joseph Bucklin
Abel Easterbrooks
Nathaniel Easterbrooks
Capt. Samuel Dunn
Capt. Rufus Greene
Capt Greenwood
Benjamin Hammond
Joseph Harris
Capt. John Hopkins
Justin Jacobs
Joseph Jencks
Hezekiah Kinnicut
John Kilton
Abner Luther
John Mawney
Simeon Olney
Ezra Ormsbee
Benjamin Page
Capt. Simeon Potter
Richmond: Barzillai or son
Nathan Salisbury
Capt. Chris. Sheldon
Capt. Shepard
James Smith
Turpin Smith
Capt Swan
Robert Sutton
Capt. Joseph Tillinghast
Capt. Abraham Whipple
Capt. Shepard
Captain Shepard may have been was one of the Gaspee Raiders that attacked the English Navy ship Gaspee in 1772.

Williams, Catherine in her Biography of Revolutionary Heroes: Containing the Life of Brigadier Gen. William Barton and also of Captain Stephen Olney. Providence (Self published 1839)  p21. lists "he names of those brave and resolute citizens, as far as they have come to our knowledge, are as follows:

bulletCaptain Benjamin Dunn,      
bulletJohn Brown,
bulletCaptain Benjamin Page,       
bulletCom. Abraham Whipple,
bulletCaptain Turpin Smith,          
bulletColonel Ephraim Bowen,
bulletCaptain John B. Hopkins,    
bulletDr. John Mawney,
bulletJoseph Bucklin,                     
bulletCaptain Harris,
bulletCaptain Shepard,                   
bulletJoseph Jenckes,

We do not know were she got this information, but speculate it was from people alive in 1839 whose parents were active in Providence in 1772.  The fact that she did not give the first names of either Captain Harris or of Captain Shepard probably indicates that Williams did not know their first names.

Page and Smith were not ship captains in 1772.  However, as the years went by, they became ship captains.  We do not know whether Shepard was a ship captain at the time of the raid, was a military captain, or became a captain only later during the Revolutionary War.

That leaves only Bucklin and Jenckes without titles in the list of Williams.  Joseph Bucklin 5th was never a ship or military captain.

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