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  2. History of Rhode Island - Wikipedia

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    In 1726, Ward was one of the four Rhode Island commissioners appointed to meet a group of Connecticut commissioners to settle the boundary line between the two colonies.[1] [citation needed] Ward was the Secretary of State from 1730 to 1733, and in 1740 became the Deputy Governor of the colony. In this capacity he and Samuel Perry were ...

  3. List of early settlers of Rhode Island - Wikipedia

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    Also on the map are two additional lots: "La terre pour L'Eglise" (land for the church) and "La terr pour L'ecolle" (land for the school). Almost all of these people left Rhode Island to settle in Massachusetts and New York following some severe civil clashes with the English settlers. Two families remained on their original land, however:

  4. New York State Department of Motor Vehicles - Wikipedia

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    The New York State Department of Motor Vehicles (NYSDMV or DMV) is the department of the New York state government [1] responsible for vehicle registration, vehicle inspections, driver's licenses, learner's permits, photo ID cards, and adjudicating traffic violations. Its regulations are compiled in title 15 of the New York Codes, Rules and ...

  5. John Porter (settler) - Wikipedia

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    Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island. Albany, New York: J. Munsell's Sons. ISBN 978-0-8063-0006-1. Bicknell, Thomas Williams (1920). The History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Vol. 3. New York: The American Historical Society. pp. 992–3. Online sources "Charter of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations". The Laws ...

  6. John Throckmorton (settler) - Wikipedia

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    [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 ...

  7. John Greene (settler) - Wikipedia

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    John Greene Sr. (9 February 1597 – 7 January 1659) [1] was an early settler of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, one of the 12 original proprietors of Providence, and a co-founder of the town of Warwick in the colony, sailing from England with his family in 1635.

  8. The customs, quirks and unspoken rules that really ... - AOL

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    The House chamber at the Rhode Island State House last December, while the General Assembly was in recess. ... A detailed analysis of why Rhode Island's House speaker and Senate president hold so ...

  9. Rhode Island - Wikipedia

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    Rhode Island (/ ˌ r oʊ d-/ ⓘ, pronounced "road") [6] [7] is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.It borders Connecticut to its west; Massachusetts to its north and east; and the Atlantic Ocean to its south via Rhode Island Sound and Block Island Sound; and shares a small maritime border with New York, east of Long Island. [8]