Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1845-05-01
Colony of RHODE ISLAND, &c.

The examination of Capt. William
Thayer, Of Mendon, in The County Of
Worcester, in the Province of Massa-
chuseits Bay, Inn holder taken IN Prov
idance, in tae colony aforesaid, this 18th
day Of January, in The thirteenth year of
his Alajes,y's reign, Ammo Domini 1913,
by ps'ius Sessions, Deputy Governor
of said colony
= Question DO you know sny circum-
siaaces relative to the attacking, taking
tplundering and burning his Majesty s
schooner called the Gaspee, and to tho
assembling, arming, training, and lead
ing on the people concerned therein, and
10 The concertiinS and preparing said at
tack
.AnSper No
q Where was you when said schoon-
er was destroyed, which was on the 10Th
day of June last
a-ht home, in Mendon.
Q-llow far is that from Providence :
Q-About twenty-five miles.
Q--IIow long time after the schoon-
er was destroyed before you was in Prov
idence
IL was not there until tho latter
end Of June, or the beginning Of July.
Q.-Dld you hear any person say,
when YOU was in Providence, or at any
other time o, place, that they knew aay
of those persons that were concerned in
that affair
0-No.
Odd you ever hear the names of
any persons suspected to be concerned
in that matter
n i heard the names of one Potter
and Brown, or Browns, but did not know
them, nor where they lived. | don't
recollect any other.
Q-Do you remember who mention
ed those names
A.-No it being only some rumor
which | heard among people in my house,
il being public one.
WILLIAM TIlAYER.
On the day aud year above said, VIII
liam Thayer, the subscriber to the above
examination, made solemn oath TO The
truth of the several answers annexed to
the foregoing in,crrognlions, before
DARIUS SESSIONS
Deputy Governor.
!, Daniel Vaughan, Of Newport, in
the colony OF Rhode Island, beng al
lawful age, do depose and say That
sometime IN the summer last past, being
IN sloop taking out some old iron from
the wreck OF the Gaspee, and afterwards
going down to Newport in said sloop IN
company with Capt. Lindsey, in his May
csty's ship the Beaver, one morning, not
far from the island of Prudence, | saw
a small boat alongside the Beaver aud
immcdialclv told the people on board the
sloop, that somebody had gone on board
the Beaver that nigh, A few days aiIcr-
wards, as the Beaver lay at Newport,
near the font, | was ordered 10 haul the
sloop VAS IN alongside schooner,
which then lay alongside the Beaver, 10
order lo take oui some sugar, and goins
"n board The Beaver, syw n mulatlo
f. llow under the lorecaslo ~ irons |
SAID unto hun, $50 you are one of the
rogucs that have been burning The Gas
pee :" he replied, che never saw her,
nor knew ANYTHING about her ;" ! then
asked hlm what he came there for ho
answered, "hIs master had used hun bad
ly, aud he was determined 10 leave him.
Two or three days afterwards, being on
board said schooner, heard Capt Lmd.
scy order said mulatio To he carried out
OF tho Beaver on board said schooner,
aud then 10 be tied up to the mast and
whipped and after he was laid hold on,
and they were about to tic hIm up 10 the
mast, he began to declare he knew some
OF the people that burnt the Gaspcc, and
HAT Simeon pya,r, JoAl DfOSn AID