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The Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations was an English, and later British, colony on the eastern coast of North America, bordering the Atlantic Ocean.Founded in 1636 by the English Puritan minister Roger Williams after his exile from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Rhode Island became a haven for religious dissenters and was known for its commitment to religious freedom and self ...
The Italians in Rhode Island: The Age of Exploration to the Present, 1524–1989 (Rhode Island Heritage Commission, 1990), Weeden, William B. Early Rhode Island: A Social History of the People (1910). Withey, Lynne E. Urban Growth in Colonial Rhode Island: Newport and Providence in the Eighteenth Century (1984). WPA (Works Progress Administration).
The early Rhode Island inhabitants named in the Rhode Island Royal Charter, dated July 8, 1663 and signed with the royal seal by King Charles II; this charter was the basis for Rhode Island's government for nearly two centuries: [38] Author: John Clarke; Governor: Benedict Arnold; Deputy Governor: William Brenton; Assistants: William Baulston ...
John Smith (c. 1595 – c. 1649) was a founding settler of Providence in what would become the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.Smith joined Roger Williams at the Seekonk River in 1636 after both were expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony.
[1] (1601–1684) was an early settler of Providence Plantation in what became the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, and he was one of the 12 original proprietors of that settlement. He emigrated from Norfolk, England to settle in Salem in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, but religious tensions brought about his removal to Providence.
Rhode Island dropped “Providence Plantations” from its name a year ago, but not from its buildings. Providence Plantations is written in the script in marble near the State House dome and on ...
By the 1680 Colonial census – less than 50 years after Rhode Island first became a colony – there were 175 Native and Black enslaved people living in Rhode Island, according to research done ...
William Arnold was born in Ilchester, Somerset, England on 24 June 1587 [1] to Nicholas Arnold (c. 1550–1623) by his first wife Alice Gully (1553–1596). [2] In about 1610, he married Christian Peak who was baptized 15 February 1584, the daughter of Thomas Peak of Muchelney, Somerset, [3] a village about six miles (9.7 km) west of Ilchester.