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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.
Portsmouth: Longest bridge in New England for over 40 years 8: Oak Glen: Oak Glen: March 29, 1978 : 745 Union St. Portsmouth: 9: Pine Hill Archeological Site, RI-655: November 3, 1983 : Address Restricted: Portsmouth: 10
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 ...
In the town council–town meeting system, there is no full-time chief executive. [ 5 ] The largest municipality by population in Rhode Island is the state capital of Providence , with 190,934 residents.
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.
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50 below-market housing units, childcare, Haven HQ to be added to Portsmouth church site. Gannett. Jeff McMenemy, Portsmouth Herald. April 9, 2024 at 2:15 PM.
From 1641 to 1655 he held a number of town offices, including member of the town council, overseer and collector for the poor, and member of the petit jury. [3] In 1655 he appeared on a list of freemen for Portsmouth and in 1657 was a Deputy for Portsmouth to the Rhode Island General Court. [3]