Θ SPIRIT OF 76 IN RHODE ISLAND: OR, SKETCHES OF THE EFFORTS OF THE GOVERNMENT AND PEOPLE IN THE War of the Revolution. TOGETHER WITH THE NAMES OF THOSE WHO BELONGED TO RHODE WITH BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES, REMINISCENCES, &C., &C. BY BENJAMIN COWELL. CBOSTON: A. J. WRIGHT, PRINTER, NO. 3 WATER STREET. 6357244 U.S.44633,5 1863. May 16 Gray Frend. 5/30 Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1850, BY BENJAMIN COWELL, in the Clerk's Office in the District Court of the Rhode Island District. TO JOHN HOWLAND, ESQ., PRESIDENT OF THE R. I. HISTORICAL SOCIETY. SIR, I take the liberty to dedicate this humble effort to you, as one of the survivors of the Army of the Revolution, and one from whom I have received much valuable information relative to our Revolutionary History, and to whom I am indebted for many acts of kindness, hoping that it may meet with your indulgent approval, and assist to perpetuate the remembrance of that glorious struggle for liberty and independence in which Rhode Island took such a conspicuous part. I am, very respectfully, Providence, Feb. 9th, 1850. Your obedient servant, BENJAMIN COWELL. |