Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Diary of Samuel Richards, Captain of Connecticut Line, War of Revolution, 1775-1781
One of. Our whale vessels arriving into the harbor of Newport while the Gaspee schooner was lying there one of her officers came on board declared his design of impressing one of the crew: the captain made a mark in some salt, and declared to the officer if he passed that he would harpoon him: the officer regardless of the threat advanced on which the Captain thrust the harpoon at him which caused his death.
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