Darius Sessions

Darius Sessions (17 August 1717 – 27 April 1809) was a deputy governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations during the buildup to the American Revolutionary War.

Sessions attended Yale College, graduating in 1737, and subsequently worked in Rhode Island in the mercantile business.

About 1763, he bankrolled the efforts of his brother, Captain Amasa Sessions, to raise a company of soldiers to fight in the French and Indian War.

He expressed alarm at a British schooner that had been cruising the Narragansett Bay, disrupting the traffic by stopping and searching commercial ships.

To ameliorate retribution by the British authorities, Rhode Island officials took visible steps to find the culprits who burned the ship.

[1] Loyalist Massachusetts Governor Hutchinson further aggravated the colonists sensitivities by urging Britain to rescind the Rhode Island charter.

The hawkish state legislature prevented Wanton from being sworn in as governor, and he was deposed in November 1775, becoming a confirmed Loyalist, and being replaced by Cooke.

Sessions, on the other hand, wrote a letter to the General Assembly asking for forgiveness for his earlier positions, and "was received into their favor and friendship.