[635] Staples, Annals of Providence, 265.
[636] Force, American Archives, 4th, III, 69.
[637] Ibid., 36-37, 461, 653; Collections of Rhode Island Historical Society, VI, 134-35; see Chapter I, page 55.
[638] Acts and Resolves of Rhode Island, August, 1775.
[639] Providence Gazette, April 20, April 27, 1776; Acts and Resolves of Rhode Island, November, December, 1776; Arnold, History of Rhode Island, II, 397.
[640] Rhode Island Colonial Records, VII, 582.
[641] Acts and Resolves of Rhode Island, December, 1776, May, 1778.
[642] Acts and Resolves of Rhode Island, March, May, 1776.
[643] W. P. Sheffield, Rhode Island Privateers and Privateersmen.
[644] Acts and Resolves of Rhode Island, June, 1777.