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unusual facts about Gaspée Affair


Warwick Veterans High School

Warwick Veterans also has a concert band that performs several concerts a year, a marching band that plays at parades on Veterans Day and Gaspee Day, and a jazz band and concert orchestra that usually perform with the concert band — all are run by Danielle Prior.


Esek Hopkins

The marriage produced 9 children, including John Burroughs Hopkins (1742-1796), a participant in the Gaspee Affair, who later became a captain in the Continental Navy and Susannah Hopkins (1756-1850), who married Jonathan Maxcy, a Baptist minister and second president of the formerly Baptist affiliated Brown University which was then known as the College of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.

Gaspee Days Committee

The first recorded celebration of the Gaspee Affair was in 1774 near Williamsburg, Virginia where George Washington himself related in his diary that he spent 3s.9d.


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Gaspee Days Committee

The Committee also helps to acknowledge the importance of the Gaspee Affair in the independence movement that led to the American Revolutionary War.