Darius Sessions was a deputy governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations during the buildup to the American Revolutionary War.
14 Facts About Darius Sessions
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Darius Sessions was heavily involved in moderating the effects of the Gaspee Affair, and was instrumental in keeping the perpetrators from being identified.
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Darius Sessions's family was fairly well-to-do, and owned a lot of land in eastern Connecticut.
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Darius Sessions attended Yale College, graduating in 1737, and subsequently worked in Rhode Island in the mercantile business.
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Darius Sessions was likely involved in the distillery business of his father-in-law, William Antram, who had a stillhouse just north of Sessions' home in Providence.
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About 1763, he bankrolled the efforts of his brother, Captain Amasa Darius Sessions, to raise a company of soldiers to fight in the French and Indian War.
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Darius Sessions became a close friend of Brown University's first president, James Manning, and has been credited with the university being located in Providence, instead of Newport or Warren.
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Darius Sessions expressed alarm at a British schooner that had been cruising the Narragansett Bay, disrupting the traffic by stopping and searching commercial ships.
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Darius Sessions requested that the governor take measures to bring the ship's commander to account.
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Behind the scenes Darius Sessions did all he could to thwart any attempts to identify and find the attackers.
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Darius Sessions conferred with Chief Justice Stephen Hopkins and lawyer John Cole, then appealed to Massachusetts' statesman Samuel Adams, who urged Rhode Island to remain defiant, or at least to stall matters by appealing the creation of the royal commission.
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In particular, Darius Sessions attacked the reliability of Aaron Briggs and Stephen Gulley, the former of whom gave the names of some of the attackers.
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In 1774 Darius Sessions was put in charge of Rhode Island's military preparedness.
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Darius Sessions had returned to his farm in Connecticut, which he had reconstituted as a stately colonial mansion.