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Portsmouth is a town in Newport County, Rhode Island, United States.The population was 17,871 at the 2020 U.S. census.Portsmouth is the second-oldest municipality in Rhode Island, after Providence; it was one of the four colonies which merged to form the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, the others being Providence, Newport, and Warwick.
Prudence Island is the third-largest island in Narragansett Bay in the state of Rhode Island and part of the town of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, United States. It is located near the geographic center of the bay. It is defined by the United States Census Bureau as Block Group 3, Census Tract 401.03 of Newport County, Rhode Island.
Newport County was constituted on June 22, 1703, as one of the two original counties of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. As originally established, Newport County consisted of four towns: Portsmouth, Newport, Jamestown, and New Shoreham. In 1746–47, two towns, Little Compton and Tiverton, were acquired from Massachusetts.
The first group of 58 names appears to be settlers of Pocasset (later Portsmouth), while the second group of 42 appears to be settlers of Newport. These two lists come from Bartlett's Records of the Colony of Rhode Island, and apparently they were compiled and incorporated into the town records of Newport on November 25, 1639. The actual ...
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Providence—Fall River—Warwick, RI—MA 7 Narragansett: Town Washington County $28,194 $50,363 $67,571 16,361 6,846 Providence—Fall River—Warwick, RI—MA 8 Portsmouth: Town Newport County $28,161 $58,835 $68,577 17,149 6,758 9 North Kingstown: Town Washington County $28,139 $60,027 $69,559 26,326 10,154 Providence—Fall River—Warwick ...
Portsmouth Compact with Wilbore's signature sixth on the list. The family arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony where Wilbore was made a freeman in March 1633. [3] He and his wife were both admitted as members of the Boston church in December 1633, and the following November he was an assessor of taxes. [3]
William Freeborn (1594–1670) was one of the founding settlers of Portsmouth on Aquidneck Island (Rhode Island), having signed the Portsmouth Compact with 22 other men while still living in Boston. Coming from Maldon in Essex , England, he sailed to New England in 1634 with his wife and two young daughters, settling in Roxbury in the ...