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Illustrations 1. Map of the West Indies, the Caribbean, and part of South America in the late eighteenth century 8 2. Map showing owners or occupants of buildings in Providence, 1770 21 3. Burning of HMS Gaspee, 1772 35 4. Map of Providence and Narragansett Bay, c. 1770 39 5. The sloop Katy (or Providence) 47 6. The armed ship Columbus 59 7. Americans landing in the Bahamas, March 1776 61 8. Plan of Charleston siege, 1780 118 9. Ohio Company land office, Marietta, 1788 150 10. County map of Ohio, 1803 160 11. Marietta in the early nineteenth century 161 12. Shipbuilding marker, Marietta 165 13. Colonel Ebenezer Sproat and Catherine Whipple Sproat 168 14. Vale of Chamaunix, Whipple’s last Ohio home 169 15. Whipple’s spyglass 172 16. Graveside monument to Abraham and Sarah Whipple, Marietta 174 ...

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