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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 ...
John Coggeshall Sr. (2 December 1599 – 27 November 1647) was a British colonial statesman who was one of the founders of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and the first President of all four towns in the Colony.
People from colonial Rhode Island (2 C, 205 P) Pages in category "Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
John Smith [a] was born in England and migrated to Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony in the early 1630s.His family included his wife, Alice, and two children, Elizabeth and John Jr. [1] [b] Smith was a miller in Dorchester in 1635 [3] [4] and probably worked at the colony's only grist mill.
The Roger Williams National Memorial is a landscaped urban park located on a common lot of the original settlement of Providence, Rhode Island, established by minister Roger Williams in 1636. The national memorial commemorates the life of Williams, who co-founded the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and championed religious ...
Richard Smith (c. 1596–1666) was the first European settler in the Narragansett country (later Washington County, Rhode Island) in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. He established a trading post on the western side of the Narragansett Bay at a place called Cocumscussoc which became the village of Wickford in modern-day ...
Col. Joseph Whipple Sr. (1662 – 28 April 1746) [1] was a wealthy merchant in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, and active in the civil affairs of the colony during the first half of the 18th century. [1]
People executed by the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations by hanging (1 P) This page was last edited on 28 January 2025, at 18:05 (UTC). Text ...