Thomas Tew

Benjamin Norton, and Joseph Whipple, the people of Newport soon retaliated against the abusive tyrant captains of the English enforcement ships. People such as Newport’s very own Captain Thomas Tew, who was said to be the “native son” of Newport, offered a solution to the trade dilemma… piracy. Captain Tew was friends with a governor in New York by the name of Fletcher, and he also had close connections to arch-pirate John Avery, but his connections to Newport did not end there. Merchant records that Tew was from a well-respected family in Newport, and that one family member would become deputy governor of Newport in 1714. Yet, Tew’s piracy was public knowledge in Newport. In 1691, Tew invested in sloop Amity and made way for Bermuda. King William’s War offered Tew an opening. In 1693 he received a privateering commission from the lieutenant governor of Bermuda, tasked with destroying a “French factory off the African coast”. However, a storm hindered his plans, when it threatened to separate him from the other captain; Tew proclaimed, “He preferred to risk his life for profit, not military victory.” Instead he set a course for Rhode Island, where his “privateering” commission caused the town of Newport to welcome him with “boundless enthusiasm.” Captain Thomas Paine As Merchant points out, “Captain Thomas Paine was a Caribbean pirate, friend of Captain Kidd and one of the founders of the Trinity Church. He also led Rhode Island in its first naval victory.” This alone was…

Freedoms such as being able to vote, express them-selves, and gain a sense of respect from others. Not only was fashion a piece of material back in the 1920’s, but also a form of movement. With the turn of the decade and fashion, women were able to speak for them-selves whether their voices were seen or heard as negative or positive. The Flapper image became negative for the elders but the image allowed young women to be able to grow out of that stage into mature women. Wanting to move out due…

Hobbe’s Claim that the State of Nature is a State of War. Noah Park Ever since the existence of a civilization, the fundamental question of how and why; to identify and explain the human’s nature and how man is ought to live, has been the key element in philosophical world. Many philosophers provided and made public of how they viewed this world as, and the human in it, and experimented themselves with their approaches, however, no philosophers could possibly bring forth the same views as…

Not only did it pave the way for independence for the Americans but it also set the precedent for the end of the traditional royal rule in Europe, even inspiring the French allies of the Americans during the American Revolution to lead their own revolt against their own king. Today, the document is often just known to have declared that the colonies wanted their independence from Britain; however, it expressed much more than just the desire for independence. With true eloquence, Thomas Jefferson…

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As humans, we make choices every single day from the moment we wake up each morning. Some of these choices do not seem to affect our lives with much significance, such as what we choose to eat for breakfast. On the other hand, some may change our lives forever, like deciding where to attend college. The choices we make lead to the experiences we have. The texts of Antigone, Saint Augustine: Of Choice and Free Will and Into the Wild contain instances of decisions that led to experiences, which…

capitalistic, trade economy while the South maintained a feudalistic, agrarian economy. Slavery and Western expansion created tensions between the smaller, abolitionist Northern states and the expanding, economically slave-driven Southern states. The “Anti-Federalist 1” document complained about the South’s continued growth as it expanded with Western frontier and continued to gain population through their use of slaves. Many Northern states feared the South would eventually gain political…

The Election of 1800 was monumental: it was the first peaceful transition of power. Never before in history had a transition between two opposing groups occurred without warfare. However, in the United States, this election was the start of opposition, and the transition of power between two separate groups would continue from here, beginning with the transfer of power from Federalist John Adams to Democratic Republican Thomas Jefferson. From this original conflict between the Federalists and…

radical like Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804) who believed that the government should be run by the wealthy to protect the interests of the wealthy. He was the biggest contributor to the Federalists Papers which were written to persuade people over to their side. Now his arch nemesis in politics was Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) a Democratic Republican who thought that the government should be in place to protect the interests of all of the people. He was probably the most important Democratic…

Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" Thomas Paine is responsible for some of the most influential pamphlets about the colonial situation in the 1700’s. He found himself in the right position and time to make his opinions known through his writing. He was a journalist in Philadelphia when the American relationship with England was thinning and change was on the horizon. Paine became famous at this time for writing Common Sense, as well as his sixteen Crisis papers. Through his particular style of…