Joseph Wanton

Joseph Wanton

Joseph Wanton (1705-1780) was a merchant from Newport, Rhode Island and Governor of Rhode Island from 1769 to 1775 and a Loyalist.

Wanton was born in Newport the son of William Wanton, governor of Rhode Island from 1732 to 1733. He was raised in the Church of England as a compromise because his mother was a Presbyterian and father a Quaker. Wanton was involved with privateers during the French and Indian War. Wanton is pictured in the 1755 painting by John Greenwood, "Sea Captains Carousing in Surinam." Wanton served as Governor of Rhode Island from 1769 to 1775 when he was removed for his failure to swear a loyalty oath to the patriot cause. As governor, he oversaw the prosecution of the 1772 Gaspee Affair. Wanton was buried in the Golden Hill Cemetery in 1780. Wanton's son, Joseph Wanton, Jr. served as deputy governor of Rhode Island in 1764 and 1767 and owned Hunter House.

References and external links

* [http://www.gaspee.org/WantonBio.htm Gaspee Archives info]
*Cornell, Jr, Elmer E.: "The Ordeal of Governor Joseph Wanton", Rhode Islander, The Providence Sunday Journal Magazine, June 9, 1974, pp34-39
*Sheffield Wiiliam P.: An Address, (Newport: JP Sanborn, 1883), p56.
*Gerlach, Larry R. "Charles Dudley and the Customs Quandary of Pre-Revolutionary Rhode Island." *Rhode Island History, Spring 1971, pp52-59.
*Crane, Elaine Forman. "A Dependent People: Newport, Rhode Island in the Revolutionary Era", Fordham University Press, New York, 1992. p116.
*Lossing, Benson J., "Pictoral Field Guide to the Revolution, Vol. I." Harper Brothers, New York, 1859, Chapter XXVII..
*Mohr, Ralph S. "Governors for Three Hundred Years, 1638-1959, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations." Revised Edition. Oxford Press, 1959. p184-185
*Staples, William R. "Documentary History of the Destruction of the Gaspee, Introduction by Richard Deasy." Rhode Island Publications Society, 1990.
*Williams, Catherine. "Biography of Revolutionary Heroes: Containing the Life of Brigadier Gen. William Barton and also of Captain Stephen Olney." Providence, Published by the author, 1839, p154


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