Gaspee
Days Committee History Files 
Gaspee Silver
Goblet
This silver cup was a piece
of plunder taken from the Gaspee
by Commodore Whipple, and is inscribed: "Captured by Com. Whipple of R.
I. from the British Sloop Gaspee June 17, 1772." James
Fennimore
Cooper, in his History of the Navy of the United States,
erroneously
gave the date of June 17th for the burning of the Gaspee, and
this
error has been copied in many places. The cup is in the possession of
The
RI Historical Society at the John Brown House in Providence.
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