Eminent Americans : comprising brief biographies of leading statesmen, patriots, orators and others, men and women who have made American history . Cock. During a singlecruise, in 1760, he took twenty-three French prizes. When the colonists andthe mother government quarrelled. Captain Whipple espoused the cause of hiscountrymen, and was among those who committed the first overt act of rebel-lion, in New England, in the burning of the British armed schooner, Gasp,above alluded to.* Captain Whipple sailed on a trading voyage to the WestIndies soon afterward, and did not return until 1774. 1. The
Eminent Americans : comprising brief biographies of leading statesmen, patriots, orators and others, men and women who have made American history . Cock. During a singlecruise, in 1760, he took twenty-three French prizes. When the colonists andthe mother government quarrelled. Captain Whipple espoused the cause of hiscountrymen, and was among those who committed the first overt act of rebel-lion, in New England, in the burning of the British armed schooner, Gasp,above alluded to.* Captain Whipple sailed on a trading voyage to the WestIndies soon afterward, and did not return until 1774. 1. The Gaspe was stationed in Narraganset Bay to enforce the revenne laws. While chasing anAmerican vessel up the bay, it ran aground on a sandy shoal. Captain Whipple and a number of sea-men went down the bay on the night of the 17th of June, boarded the schooner, captured the commanderand crew, and then burned the vessel. Notwithstanding a commission was appointed to investigate theaffair, and a large reward was offered for the perpetrators, their names were not made known until warwith Great Britain had actually commenced. ABEAHAM WHIPPLE. 221. In the Spring: of 1775, Sir James 17011300, in command of the British frigateRose^ blockaded Narraganset Bay. TJie legislature of Rhode 1&1 lud fitted outtwo vessels for the purpose of driving the intruder av/ay. vi^erc underthe general command of AVhipple, and he soon expelled Wallace from the EhodoIsland waters. In this business Whipple hatl the Iionor of firing the first gunin the naval service of the Revolution.^ In the Autumn following, CaptainWhipple was ordered on a cruise to the Bermudas, to seize powder, but Avasunsuccessful. In December, he received a commanders commission, from Con-gress; and, in February, 177G, he sailed on a cruise in the squadron of Hopkins, the naval commander-in-chief. From that time until the fallof Charleston, in May, 1780, he was in active service. There he was in conunandof quite a str
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