 | Mrs. Nellie (Urner) Wallington, Nellie Urner Wallington - American poetry - 1911 - 468 pages
...NEW SONG CALLED THE "GASPEE" WAS in the reign of George the Third The public peace was much disturbed By ships of war, that came and laid Within our ports to stop our trade. In seventeen hundred seventy-two, In Newport harbour lay a crew That played the parts of pirates there, The sons of Freedom... | |
 | John William Linzee - 1917 - 608 pages
...for the occasion. SONG 'Twas in the reign of George the Third, Our public peace was much disturbed By ships of war, that came and laid Within our ports, to stop our trade. Seventeen hundred and seventy-two, In Newport harbor lay a crew, That played the part of pirates there,... | |
 | Joan Axelrod-Contrada - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2005 - 68 pages
...incident. It began: Twas in the reign of George the Third, Our public peace was much disturbed By ship of war that came and laid, Within our ports, to stop our trade. Opposition to the British heated up again in 1773 and 1774. After Parliament passed the Tea Act in... | |
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Twas in the reign of George the Third, Our public peace was much disturbed By ships of war, that came and laid Within our ports, to stop our trade. 
