Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1845-04-24

I Aaron Briggs, aged eighteen yea., OF
therenbouf, declares, that nj the aye of
five years he was boUBd bv t'fssfow of
Portsmouth, an apprentice 10 Capt. Sam
uel Tonpkns of Prudence island, until
he should-arrve al the age oltwenty-four Of
years from which time, until he wen,
on board the man-oi-war, he wns CON
stantly in the service Of The said Capt.
Tompkins, as u labprer on his farm that
his master kept two mast boat 10 trans
port his farm produce To market which
was the only sail boat within five miles
of his masters farm at the time 'he Gas
pee was burnt that at that time one
Remington, who lived about one mile
from where the deponeD, lived, had a
Vow boat large enough for six hands 10
row also one Ephraim Peirce, at about
mile aud half distance, had two
mast boat, and tha. the sails of his mas
tcr's boat had been taken of his mas
ier's boat some time before the night on
which the Gaspee was burnt, and she
leaked in such n manner that she could
not sail that little after sunset, on the
night on which the Gaspec was blrnt,
he left the island of Prudence, but does
not know the day Of the week, or The
day Of the month /; that he went 0g the
island in a little fishing boat Of Two oars,
which boat lay just before the house !;
that before sunrise, and abou, an hour
after daybrenk, he returned TO his mas
ter's house from the shore where they
landed the people lelonglng TO the Gas
pee, which shore was about mile above
said Caspee, aud the Gnspee abou, six
miles from his masters house, and that it
was about four or five miles from his
masters to the place where they landed
the Gaspee pcopie; that he found the
oars 10 the boat tha, hc went off said is.
land in that the reason he went 'fff-ihe
island, was to carry the boat sound TO
the east side Of said island, TO carry u
man named Samuel Faulkner, hired
man, TO Bristol the next night, aud that
| this young man told the deponent tha, he
would ask his masters leave for that pur-
pose that going Ionnd SAID island, at a
| bout half Il mile from said shore Of said
island, he met boat and one Potter,
whose Christian name he does not know,
and whom he, in company with Fau!k-
ner above-named, had once seen on n
wharf at Bristol, and there heard hin,
called by the name Of Potter and fur
| iher says, that said Faulkner told him
| tha, that was the person who owned the
ropewalk at Bristol which they had been
| in that when he me, said Potter, rs IL
bove- mentioned, he was in a boat which
| was rowing with eight oars /; that the
, time he met the said Potter was about
/ half an hour after he, this depunent, lett
The island, and he, said Potter, was a
bout five miles from Bristol; that there
were eleven men in said boat, said Pot
! ter was IN the stern sheets /; that the
! weather was c Loudly that when Potter
| hailed him they were about fifteen rods
! distant the FIRST words Potter spoke was
! by asking who was in that boat the de-
ponen, answered, he was in there Pot
| ter told hun TO come that way, he wanle
! TO speak to him upon which he went t.
| him, aud Potter told him he waited TIM
deponent to 60 UP with him about mile
| that he would be back IN an hour (; this
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