Doing Research on the Gaspee Affair

Primary and Secondary Bibliographic Sources

The Public Record Office (now called the National Archives) in KEW Gardens holds:

• Privy Council, 1481-1987 (PC)
• Treasury, 1547-1996 (T)
• Colonial Office, 1570-1990 (CO)
• Admiralty, 1205-1998 (ADM)

Please find on this website more than 300 primary references and more than 200 secondary sources of information pertaining to the Gaspee Affair and its historical context.

Warwick Beacon:

Tuning up for Gaspee celebration

Providence Journal:

How the Gaspee was grounded and burned