By the King A proclamation: for the discovering and apprehending the persons who plundered and burnt the Gaspee schooner; and barbarously wounded and ill treated Lieutenant William Dudingston, commander of the said schooner. Whereas we have received information, that upon the 10th day of June last ... in the Providence or Narrowganset River ... a great number of persons ... attacked ... our vessel ... Given at our court at St. James's, the twenty-sixth day of August, 1772, in the twelfth year of our reign. God save the King (Printed by Solomon Southwick, printer to the Honorable the governor and Company of the colony of Rhode-Island and Providence-Plantations, in New-England, 1772)
Alden, J.E. Rhode Island, 489. - At head of title: L.S. George R. - Bristol, B3455. - Offering a reward of one hundred pounds sterling for the apprehension of the attackers of the British schooner Gaspee. - Royal arms at head of title. - Shipton & Mooney, 42345