An Address: Before the Rhode Island Historical Society, in Providence, February 7, A. D., 1882 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from An Address: Before the Rhode Island Historical Society, in Providence, February 7, A. D., 1882

From diversified sources, scattered and often meagre materials, with patient labor and persistent effort I have collected the follow ing story of privateers and privateersmen of Rhode Island. The sources of information are papers in the Office Of the Sec retary of State, copies of commissions, papers connected with the administration of the admiralty jurisdiction (note records of notarial protests, merchants' account books, Old papers letters and newspapers. This information must be imper fect The list Of privateers must be especially imperfect, as there remains no record of the commissions issued, and nothing that at all approximates to a record, even of the doings of the courts of admiralty. My object has, however, been to save something from the existing fragments, that more than is now accessible to the general reader may be brought under his observation in reference to this important part of our local history. The effect of priva teering in our colonial wars, and the important part that it bore in our revolution has not been properly estimated. I have added in notes a reference to pirates, not because of any affinity be tween their vocations than that of privateersmen, and some thing of the several Canada expeditions and Of the capture of Louisburg, because those parts of our history ought to be preserved, and these events are not wholly disconnected with the subject of privateering, for commissions to privateers were sought at times to be used as a cover for piracy, and privateers acted an important part in some of the Canada expeditions. I have added a note to Show something of the effect of privateering upon the Slave trade. (see n. The author.

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