Spring 2004- Narr.Bay-Abbey 1700s-cannonball May 2, 2004
Narragansett Bay and Portsmouth Abbey in the 1700s A talk given by James E. Garman last fall prompted a display in the spring of 2004 of the way Narragansett Bay and Portsmouth Abbey's land had been during the mid to late 1700s. Two major events took place during the Revolutionary War of that period.
A map and colonial documents from the burning of the Gaspee, (a British ship moored in Narragansett Bay and burned by angry colonists) June 9-10, 1772, were displayed. With them were maps and artifacts, including an authentic cannonball found on the Abbey grounds from the Battle of Rhode Island, August 29-31, 1778, fought just north of the Abbey church.
Reports come from two major sources, the Technical Report...archaeological survey and site examinations by among others, James C. Garman, class of 1983, for the Public Archaeology Lab of Pawtucket, R.I. and Cultural Landscape Assessment, the Bloody Run Links... by Past Designs of Kennebunkport, Maine.
