The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-09-24

Rev. James McSparran, d. D., who came
10 Narragansett, II. l., In 1721 as q mis-
sionary OF the Church OF England. Loaned
by Miss Charlotte 4. Daley.
Photograph OF White Hail, the home OF
Bishop Berkeley. near Newport X. L.,
who came 70 Rhode Island in 172S to
found a college for training pastors and
missionaries of the Church o. England.
Author OF the well-known line: 'West-
ward the course of Empire takes its way.
Two French fans over one hundred
years old, brought from Bordeaux by
Captain Samuel Low OF Warwick, X. l.
Loaned by Miss Abby Low.
Boston Gazette of March II, 1770, Civ
ing an account Of the Boston massacre.
Loaned by Mrs. William French.
Miniature by Malbone. Loaned by
Miss Charlotte Field Daley.
ARTICLES ILLUSTRATIVE OF RHODE ISLAND
HISTORY.
Photograph OF the manuscript Of the
compact of Providence OF 1857, wherein
civil things" Losned by Miss Amelia
). knight.
Photograph of the royal charter OF
Charles III, 1853, making Rhode Island an
absolute sovereignty, guaranteeing relig-
Gus freedom and requiring no oath of
allegiance. This was the fundamental
law Of Rhode Island until the adoption
in 1912 OF her present constitution. From
the original in the State House in Provi-
dence.
Two photographs of the room in which
the plot to destroy the British revenue
vessel Gaspee was concocted on the night
of June $40, 1772, the first overt act of
defiance to Great Britain. This room
was saved when the old mansion was de-
stroyed, and is now part OF the residence
of Mrs. William II. Talbot, Providence.
Loaned by Mrs. Talbot.
Warrant for the arrest OF Arthur Fen
ner for aiding in the burning of the Gas
pee. Loaned by Miss Elizabeth Bridgham
Dexter.
Copies OF the program at the dedication
of a tablet commemorating a bonfire in
the market place of Providence on March
2, 1775, of British taxed tea. Erected
March 2, 1894, upon the old market
house, by the Rhode Island Society, Sons
OF the American Revolution and the Gas
pee Chapter, Daughters OF the American
Revolution. With fac simile of the bronze
tablet. Loaned by Miss Mary A. Greene.
Attested copy Of the proceedings of the
General Assembly of Rhode Island, May
session 1776, containing the famous act
repeating the act of allegiance to has
Majesty, whereby Rhode Island, on May
4, 1776, declared her independence as a
sovereign State and ordered all writs.
ETC., TO issue in the name of the colony
alone. Loaned by Mrs. Susan A. Baliou.
and Zerviah Waterman, married 1722.
Zuriel Waterman was one OF the ia
nous General Assembly of Rhode Island
that declared the coionys independence
on May 4, 1776. Loaned by Mr.. Benja-
min Aborn Jackson, his great, great,
great grandson.
Address on the Daughters of Liberty OF
Newport, r. L., of 1866, by Mrs. Richard
jackson Barker, historian of the Gsspee
Chapter, Daughters of the American Rev
olution.
Proclamation OF Thsnksg living by Con-
gress after the surrender of CORVALLIS in
1881, as issued in Rhode Island by Gov
ernor William Greene. Loaned by his kins-
man, Arnold Gindrat Talbot
Eighteen pieces of Rhode Island paper
money OF 1850 and 1856, viz. A one dol
lar, two dollar, three dollar, four dollar
and five dollar bill, two seven dollar bills,
one eight dollar and one twenty dollar
bill all of the issue OF 1850, and three
shillings, five shiilings, six shillings, ten
shillings, twenty shillings (e1) two
thirty shillings (el los. one forty shil-
lings co and one sixty shillings G3) all
OF the issue OF 1856. These famous state
bills of credit nearly plunged Rhode Island
into civil war. The refusal of the farmers
and traders TO accept them in payment,
precipitated riots, and caused the legis-
lature to pass the "Forcing Acts" COM
pelling creditors TO accept tender OF
thlS money on pain OF puphnment Dy me
or Imprisonment and disfranchisement.
Loaned by Mrs. Richard Jackson Barker.
Portrait (engraved) OF Colenel Chris
topher Greene, "the hero of Red Bank, "
Major of the army of observation 1775,
Colonel commandsnt of the II. /.
Brigade from January !, 1776 till May Ia,
1871. when he was killed at Pines
Bridge on tho Hudson. Loaned by his
great, great granddaughter Mary Anne
Greene.
silhouette of Colonel jeremiah Olney,
captain of the army of observation 1775,
lieutenant-colone 1776, etc. who succeeded
to the command of the Rhode Island
Brigade on the death of Colonel Chris
topher Greene in 1881. President of the
Rhode Island Society of the Cincinnati.
Loaned by his great grand niece, Anne
Cooke Cushing.
Portrait (engraved) Of Rev. Enos Hitch
cock, ID. d., chaplain of the Rhode
Island regiment in the Revolution, and
pastor of the First Congregational Church
(Unitarian) of Providence, X. l., from 1888
to 1903 The Independent Presbyterian
Church, Bull street, Savannah, Ca, was
copied from this edifce Loaned by
Miss Anne Cooke Cushing.
Copy of letter from John Hancock 10
Gov. Nicholas Cooke of Rhode Island,
dated June 81 1875, enclosing list OF
officers for the continental army appoint
ed by the Congress. The original of
this letter is in the possession of Major
Harry Cooke Cushing, Fourth United
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