They had 10 children who lived to reach adulthood: Elizabeth Sloop Beaver, Mary Sloop Winecoff ... to Rowan County via the Great Wagon Road in 1775. The couple were ardent Lutherans, and helped ...

In early 1775, British men-of-war ... The committee chartered the sloop Katy from John Brown of Providence and the sloop Washington. Soon afterward, the Katy was purchased by Rhode Island and ...

The Arundel-owned coasting sloop Polly sailed from Ephraim Perkins' wharf at what is today Dock Square on May 13, 1775. Her cargo was delivered to Plymouth, Mass. where she was loaded up again for ...

In November 1775, Trevett sailed from Providence to Philadelphia aboard the sloop Katy, whose name was later changed to Providence, the same ship on which both Parker and Earl later served ...

On this day in 1775, the Second Continental Congress ... In 1768, a British customs raid on one of Hancock’s ships, the sloop Liberty, incited a riot, causing the British army to flee the ...

Machias, Maine, points to the seizing of the Royal Navy schooner Margaretta by a small sloop armed with woodsmen on 12 June 1775. Providence, Rhode Island, asserts its title as the site of the ...