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By the King. : A proclamation: for the discovering and apprehending the persons who plundered and burnt the Gaspee schooner; and barbarously wounded and ill treated Lieutenant William Dudingston, commander of the said schooner. Whereas we have received information, that upon the 10th day of June last ... in the Providence or Narrowganset River .. a great number of persons ... attacked ... our vessel ... Given at our court at St. James's, the twenty-sixth day of August, 1772, in the twelfth year of our reign. God save the King.
Van Pelt - Microtext Microfiche 821 no. 42345
Mixed Availability
- Format:
- Microformat
- Author/Creator:
- Great Britain. Sovereign (1760-1820 : George III)
- Series:
- Early American imprints. First series ; no. 42345.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dudingston, William.
- Gaspee (Schooner).
- United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
- United States.
- History.
- Rhode Island--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
- Rhode Island.
- Genre:
- Broadsides.
- Physical Description:
- 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 43 x 28 cm
- 4x6 in.
- monochrome
- service copy
- negative
- Place of Publication:
- [Newport, R.I.] : Printed by Solomon Southwick, printer to the Honorable the governor and Company of the colony of Rhode-Island and Providence-Plantations, in New-England., [1772]
- Notes:
- Offering a reward of one hundred pounds sterling for the apprehension of the attackers of the British schooner Gaspee.
- At head of title: L.S. George R.
- Royal arms at head of title.
- Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 42345).
- Cited in:
- Bristol B3455
- Shipton & Mooney 42345
- Alden, J.E. Rhode Island, 489
- OCLC:
- 55814341
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