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2. Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations - Wikipedia

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   Rhode Island was the only New England colony without an established church. [28] Rhode Island had only four churches with regular services in 1650, out of the 109 places of worship with regular services in the New England Colonies (including those without resident clergy), [28] while there was a small Jewish enclave in Newport by 1658. [29]

3. History of Rhode Island - Wikipedia

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   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.

4. John Wanton - Wikipedia

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   John Wanton (December 24, 1672 – July 5, 1740) [1] was a governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, serving for six consecutive terms from 1734 to 1740. Early life [ edit ]

5. John Albro (settler) - Wikipedia

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   John Albro (c. 1617–1712) was an early settler of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, a magistrate, and a long-time military officer in the Portsmouth Militia in the colony. He immigrated to New England in 1634 as a minor under the care of early Portsmouth settler William Freeborn .

6. William Wanton - Wikipedia

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   William Wanton (September 15, 1670 – December 1733) [1] was a governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, serving a short term prior to his death.He spent most of his adult life in the civil and military service of the colony and commanded a sloop for chasing privateers.

7. Richard Scott (settler) - Wikipedia

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   Richard Scott (1605–1679) was an early settler of Providence Plantations in what became the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.He married Katherine Marbury, the daughter of Reverend Francis Marbury and sister of Puritan dissident Anne Hutchinson.

8. Robert Hazard (politician) - Wikipedia

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   Robert Hazard became a freeman of South Kingstown in 1722. In 1734, he became a Deputy in Rhode Island's General Assembly, which position he held through 1749. [1] In 1750, he was elected Deputy Governor of the colony, serving for less than a full one-year term, from May 1750 until his death in 1751.

9. Rhode Island Royal Charter - Wikipedia

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   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 ...