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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 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 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 ...
[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.
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.
The Rhode Island Royal Charter provided royal recognition to the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, approved by England's King Charles II in July 1663. It superseded the 1643 Patent for Settlement and outlined many freedoms for the inhabitants of Rhode Island. It was the guiding document of the colony's government (and that of ...
1764 – College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations established in Warren. [2] 1768 – Brick Schoolhouse built on Meeting Street. 1770 – College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations relocated to Providence. [9] 1774 - Rhode Island Supreme Court founded.
The History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Vol. 3. New York: The American Historical Society. pp. 989– 994. Coggeshall, Charles Pierce (1930). The Coggeshalls in America: Genealogy of the Descendants of John Coggeshall of Newport, with a brief notice of their English antecedents. Boston: C. E. Goodspeed.