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The Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations was an English colony on the eastern coast of America, founded in 1636 by Puritan minister Roger Williams after his exile from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. It became a haven for religious dissenters and was known for its commitment to religious freedom and self-governance.
Rhode Island was the first colony in America to declare independence on May 4, 1776, a full two months before the United States Declaration of Independence. [11] Rhode Islanders had attacked the British warship HMS Gaspee in 1772 as one of the first acts of war leading to the American Revolution.
The following individuals were among the earliest settlers of Aquidneck Island in the Narragansett Bay; the island was officially named Rhode Island by 1644, [30] from which the entire colony eventually took its name. The first group of 58 names appears to be settlers of Pocasset (later Portsmouth), while the second group of 42 appears to be ...
Records of the colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, in New England, A.C. Greene and Brothers, 1865, OCLC 83697440, OL 20490388M Frederic Denison (1879), "Newport" , The past and the present: Narragansett, sea and shore , Providence: J. A. & R. A. Reid
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.
Roger Williams secured a Royal Charter from the King in 1663 which united all four settlements into the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Other colonists settled to the north, mingling with adventurers and profit-oriented settlers to establish more religiously diverse colonies in New Hampshire and Maine. Massachusetts absorbed ...
1636 - Roger Williams founds the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. 1636 - Harvard University founded, oldest English university in America. 1637 – The Pequot War results in the killing of many of the Pequot people. * * 1637 - New Haven Colony is founded. 1637 - nAnne Hutchinson expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
At various times absorbed by and/or governed by the Massachusetts Bay Colony and the Province of Massachusetts Bay, declared independence in 1776 Rhode Island and Providence Plantations: Providence Newport: 1636–1686 1689-1776: Self-governing: Declared independence from Great Britain in 1776 and reorganized as the State of Rhode Island