"Cities in Revolt: Urban Life in America, 1743-1776," in 1955, "Mitre and Sceptre: Transatlantic Faith, Ideas, Personalities, and Politics," in 1962, "Vexed and Troubled Englishmen, 1590-1642," in 1968, "Fat Mutton and Liberty of Conscience: Society in Rhode Island, 1636-1690," in 1974, "The Spirit of ’76: the Growth of American Patriotism before Independence," in 1975, "Jamestown, 1544-1699," in 1980, and "Early Americans," in 1981.Bridenbaugh, Carl
Solomon Drowne was in the army from 1776 to 1780, and had a narrow escape on July 3, 1776, when he remained to gather medical supplies until moments before the arrival of the British in New York City.Drowne, Solomon
His son, William Edwards 1776, who as a pupil in Manning’s Latin School had been allowed to pronounce a piece from Homer at the 1770Commencement, became a colonel in the English army and later drowned on his way to Cork from Bristol, England.Edwards, Morgan
On July 9 he had written of the move in a letter: After his graduation Foster became an attorney and served as Providence Town Clerk from 1775 to 1787, as Secretary of the Rhode Island Council of War from 1776 to 1781, and as Representative to the General Assembly from 1776 to 1782.Foster, Theodore
Hopkins was a delegate to the Colonial Congress in Albany in 1754, the Colonial Congress in Boston in 1757, a member of the Continental Congress from 1774 to 1776, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence.Hopkins, Stephen
In 1776, when the British arrived in Newport and the College Edifice was needed for barracks, all the books in the College Library were removed to Wrentham, Massachusetts, to the home of William Williams1769.Library
The Revolutionary War soon interrupted the life of the College, when the Edifice was taken over from December 7, 1776 to May 27, 1782, and used as barracks and as a hospital by American and French troops, and left in dilapidated condition.Manning, James
When British and Hessian troops under Sir Peter Parker landed in Newport on December 7, 1776, President Manning wrote, "This brought their Camp in plain View from the College with the naked Eye; upon which the Country flew to Arms & marched for Providence, there, unprovided with Barracks they marched into the College & dispossessed the Students, about 40 in Number."Revolutionary War
He died of wounds received during the battle of Long Island on August 27, 1776, the first Brown graduate to die in military service.Revolutionary War
Esek Hopkins 1775, son of the admiral, was master of a privateer which captured the British ship "Westermoreland" in August 1776.Revolutionary War
On March of 1776 William Rogers was appointed chaplain of Pennsylvania’s three battalions, and was promoted to a brigade chaplain in the Continental army in June 1778.Rogers, William
In 1774 four delinquent students, John Hart 1776, Daniel Gano 1776, William Edwards 1776, and Walter Vigneron 1776, were publicly admonished for various "crimes," as being absent during study hours, spending time in idle entertainment, making noise, and moving a carpenter’s bench into the entry of the College Edifice.Student conduct
A notice of the opening of a "Grammar School" in the College Edifice was announced on March 11, 1776 in the "Providence Gazette, but probably this school’s life was cut short by the closing of the college in December of 1776."University Grammar School
On May 11, 1927, a tablet placed on University Hall was dedicated to the memory of General Nathanael Greene, who had received an honorary degree in 1776, by the First Light Infantry Regiment of Rhode Island.University Hall