Dinsmore Documentation  presents  Classics of American Colonial History

Author:Weeden, William B.
Title:Early Rhode Island: A Social History of the People.
Citation:New York: The Grafton Press, 1910.
Subdivision:Directory of Files
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CHAPTERS

Front Matter

I.

Foundations of Rhode Island, 1636

II.

Planting in Providence, 1636-1647

III.

The Island, 1638-1663

IV.

The Colony and the Town of Providence, 1648-1710

V.

King’s County, the Patriarchal Condition, 1641-1757

VI.

Period Under Charter of Charles II., 1663-1730

VII.

The Commercial Growth of Providence, 1711-1762

VIII.

Newport in the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1776

IX.

The South County, 1758-1787

X.

Revolutionary Period, 1763-1785

XI.

The Union, 1786-1790

Index (to be digitized)


ILLUSTRATIONS

Mowry Tavern, where Williams Held Meetings. Built about 1658.

Rhode Island’s Magna Charts. Here occur the words, “Only in Civil Things”

The Bull House, Newport. Built about 1640

Coddington’s House at Newport, about 1650

Copy of the Record Signed by Roger Williams in His Only Service as Town Clerk

Caesar House. Type of the Houses Built in the Latter Part of the Seventeenth Century

Residence of Dean Berkeley, Middletown (Near Newport, R.I.). Built in 1730

University Hall and Hope College in 1825


Dinsmore Documentation   presents   Classics of American Colonial History

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