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THE
BIOGRAPHICAL CYCLOPEDIA
OF
REPRESENTATIVE MEN
OF
RHODE ISLAND.
PROVIDENCE: NATIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL PUBLISHING CO. 1881.
COPYRIGHTED, 1881.
1572939
PREFACE.
IN the preparation of this Cyclopedia, the publishers have endeavored to make it a valuable book of reference, and in order to accomplish this object, have spared neither pains nor expense to secure completeness and accuracy. The work contains over nine hundred biographies, which, with few exceptions, were prepared especially for it, and are composed of materials gathered from the most authentic sources of information.
Although Rhode Island is a small state territorially, she, nevertheless, has a record as brilliant and interesting as any state in the Union, and as her history extends over a period of nearly two and a half centuries, the greater part of this volume is necessarily devoted to sketches of the lives of men of past generations.
The biographies have been arranged chronologically, except so far as it became necessary to interrupt this order for the purpose of properly distributing the steel-plate portraits with which the work is embellished, and inserting sketches received too late for publication in their proper place. The fact that the biographies of many prominent men who are now upon the stage of action are not to be found in this Cyclopedia, and that steel-plate portraits do not accom- pany the sketches of several well-known men represented herein, may occasion some comment ; but it is due to the publishers to state that they have used their best endeavors to supply this omission.
We desire to express our obligations to those whose literary aid and influence have facili- tated the success of the work, among whom are Rev. J. C. Stockbridge, D.D., Rev. Frederic Denison, Reuben A. Guild, LL.D., Hon. John R. Bartlett, George C. Mason, Esq., and Rev. S. W. Coggeshall, D.D., from all of whom we have received numerous biographies of rare historic interest. Revs. J. P. Root, S. T. Livermore, O. O. Wright, J. M. Brewster, and M. Goodrich, Messrs. Frank A. Waterman and P. A. Gay, and others, have also furnished many sketches, and greatly contributed to the success of the publication.
The eye of the critic will undoubtedly discover imperfections in this volume; yet we trust that the work possesses sufficient merit to commend it to public favor, and that it will prove a substantial contribution to biographical literature.
National Biographical Publishing Company.
J. H. CHEEVER, Treasurer.
L. E. ROGERS, Editor.
PROVIDENCE, R. I., September 1, 1881.
CONTENTS.
Abbot, Joel. 246
Bartlett, Henry A
Church, Samuel W 318
Abbot, Trevett 523
Bartlett, John R
296 Brown, Welcomc ().
Claflin, George L 464
Ackley, William N 568
Bartlett, John R
575
I42
Bucklin, James C.
319
Clarke, Elisha C .. 563
Clarke, John 22
Addeman, Joshua M.
565
Beane, Eben J ..
527 Budlong, John C .. 567
Clarke, John H. 199
Adlam, Samuel 149 Beckwith, Truman
386
Clarke, Joshua IO2
Akerman, Charles 384 Behrends, A. J. F
Belden, Stanton
347
Benedict, David
96
Benedict, Stephen ..
165
Bennett, Messadore T
415
Berkeley, George
80 62
Allen, William H
200
Bicknell, Joshua.
169
Allen, Zachariah 259
Bicknell, Thomas W
543
Billings, Alpheus.
Coggeshall, Samuel W.
370
Almy Family Ames, George H
585
Ames, Samuel
342
Bixby, Moses H 503
Burgess, Thomas M .. 352
Burlingame, Maxey W
335 466
Collins, John.
Collins, John I20
Angell, James B
517
Angell, Jonathan S
326
Angell, Joseph K
251 Bliss, George N 5.56
Butler, Cyrus ... I66
Cook, James S 305
Angell, William G 374
Blodgett, Constantine. I70
Blodgett, William W 479
Cady, Isaac F 435
Cooke, George L. 453
Anthony, Lewis W 492
Arnold, Albert N.
391 Bourn, Augustus O
Arnold. Anthony B
256 Bourn, George O.
354
Arnold, Benedict
43
Bourne, Benjamin 158
Arnold, Lemuel H 239
Bowen, Jabez.
Campbell, Daniel G 408
Coon, Abram
Coon, Daniel. 240
Arnold, Oliver.
Bowen, Tully D.
347
Arnold, Olney . 463 Bowen, William. I32
Campbell, James M. 408
Cowell, Benjamin 205
Arnold, Richard J 265
Bowen, William C. 217
Campbell, John P 408
Bowen, William H
554
Bowler, Metcalf
I30
Boyden, John .... 355
Capron. George
324
Carmichael, George. 560
Carpenter, Earl.
253
Carpenter, Francis W
530
Aylsworth, Hiram B 528
Brayton George A 320 Carpenter, Thomas F
265
Carr, Caleb ...
66
Currey, Samuel 339
Curtis, Joseph B 553
Cushman, Apollos 204
Babcock, Horace .. 446 Babcock, Joshua II3
Bahcock, Rowse 18I Brooks, Charles T
Caswell, Philip.
498
Babcock, Rowse. 320 Brown, Chad
4I 403
Chace, George I 351
Babcock, William R 395 Brown, James ...
42
Chace, Harvey ... 267
Baker, John H 331 Brown, James
42
Brown. James S
319
Ball, Nicholas 507 Brown, John
41
Brown. John ..
51 Champlin, Christopher I07
Ballou, George C .. 280 227 Brown, John Carter I3I Channing, William
Ballou, Latimer W 389 Brown, Joseph
50
Channing, William E 203
Ballou, Otis D. 350
Brown, Joseph F
565
Chapin, Joshua B 404
Ballou, Sullivan 506 Brown, Joseph R
368
Barden, John H . 423 83 Brown, Marmaduke, 569
Brown, Moses
Brown, Nathaniel W
379
50 Cheever, Daniel 323
Dennis, James 304
Barney, C. Henry. 574 Barrows, Comfort E 531
Brown, Nicholas 227
Brown, Obadiah 180 Choules John O 274
Dexter, Ebenezer K
I91
Brown, Samuel C. 436 Church, Benjamin. 30 Dexter, Gregory
39
Alexander ( Indian Chief). Aldrich, Nelson W 566 26
Allen, James. 49I
Allen, l'hilip 218
Coddington, William 21
Allen, Reuben. 259
Coggeshall, Freeborn 580
Bernon, Gabriel.
Bullock, William P.
Burdick, John II4
Coggeshall, Joshua. 33
Allston, Washington. 2II 71
Billings, Ethelbert R 246 Burges, Walter S
351
Colby, John ..
199
Cole, John. 115
Ames, William .. 572
45
Blain, John ... 259
Blake, James M 352
Burrill, James .. 193
Burrough, Robert S 474
Burrows, Joseph I22
Congdon, Gilbert
372
Angell, Thomas .. 19
Bliss, Rufus. 316
Butler, Samuel W 419
Byfield, Nathaniel 69
Cook, Lyman A 285
Cook, Willis .. 285
Anthony, Hezekiah 232
Bosworth, Alfred 383
Caldwell, Samuel L. 444
Callender, John. IOI Cooke, John ... I28
Callender, Walter 536
Cooke, Joseph J 390
Arnold, Job. 498 Bowen. Henry 217 120
Arnold, Mowry P
294 Bowen, Pardon.
133
Campbell, Horatio N. 408
Campbell, Jacob. 164 Corliss, George H. 409
Arnold, Salmon A 279
Canonchet ( Indian Chief) 28
Crane, Silas A ...
Cranston, Henry Y 107
Cranston, John .. 48
Cranston, John.
49
Aylsworth, Eli 353
Cranston. Samuel
48 I53
Brayton, William D 407
Carr, George W
546
Babcock, Daniel 164
43
Brewer, Darius R. 441
Carrington, Edward.
73 8I
Cushman, Henry I 586
Cushman, Robert. 454
Cutler, Charles R 452
Daboll, William V 367
Danforth, Walter R 221 Daniels, Horace 237
Darling, John A I 76
Balch, John R 346
Davis, James M. 443 Davis, Lucius D 484
Davis, Perry III 88
Davis, Peter .. Day, George T 468
Dean, Sidney
De Blois, Stephen ... 436
II4
Denham, Daniel C. 284
Barnaby, Abner J 547 Barnaby, Jerothmul B 526
53 Chapman, Rhodes B 348
Denison, Frederic. 442 Dennis, Charles R 506
Barnefield, Thomas P 576 Brown, Nicholas
Brown, Nicholas
49 Cheney, Martin 238 De Wolf, James 15I
Child. Shubael I88 De Wolf, William 210
Barrows, Ira ...... 32I Barstow, Amos C .. 309
559 Brown, Sylvanus I73 478
Brownell, Thomas C .. I 79
Clark, Thomas M 201
Adams, John A 380 Adams, Seth 200 Bates, Nahum
387 Budlong, James A 457
IOI Buffum, Thomas B. Bull, Henry Bull, Henry
87
Clarke, William A 318
Bullen, George.
Bullock, Jonathan R
Bullock, Nathanael
Bullock, Otis 304
Allen, Wheaton 185
337
Burdick, William A 469 183
9I Burges, Tristam.
Bishop, Nathan. 195
Burgess, Thomas.
186
Collins, Henry. Collins, George L 444 83 100
Ames, William C. 313
Angell, Edwin G 558
Blakeslee, Francis D. 584
Comer, John 109
Blanding, William B 497
Bosworth, Smith .. 209 54I
Calvert, George H 312 Cooke, Nicholas 98 Cooke, Warren 355 Campbell, Archibald I2I 164
Cozzens, William C. 373 285
Arnold, Samuel G 450
Arnold, Seth 327
Arnold, Welcome I30 Bradford, William. 109
Atwell, Samuel Y 258
Bradley, Charles S 513
Brayton, Charles. 180
Brewster, Jonathan McD 546 Carter, John
210
Bridgham, Samuel W 183 Casey, Silas.
277
Caswell, Alexis
66
Chace, Benjamin G 388
Babcock, Stephen. II2 Brown, Henry D
Chace, Samuel B 293 Davis, James 459
Chace, Thomas W 552
Chadsey, Alfred B 408
Ballou, Ariel 334
Brenton, William
Carr, Sir Robert
Babcock, Edwin 446
Babcock, Henry ..
Brinley, Francis. 299 392
Canonicus (Indian Chief) 27
Cranston, John D 241
Crocker, Nathan B
Ayrault, Daniel. I02
Brayton, Jonathan .. 344
537 397 I77
Clap. Nathaniel 73 Clapp, Sylvanus. 405
Coggeshall, John 31
Coggeshall, John 32
Blackstone, William
Burnside, Ambrose E
Congdon, Henry R 441
Cooke, James W 294
Anthony, Henry B 398
578
63 Clarke, Walter. 47
Barton, William
Chapin, Josiah. 222
Chapman, Charles H.
Checkley, John. 84
6
CONTENTS.
Dexter, Nathaniel G B ... .. 233
Dexter, Samuel K 557
Diman, Byron 257 Diman J Lewis 520
Greene, Albert G.
206
Dimond, Francis M 258 Greene, Allen .. 429 Howland, Benjamin B 201 Mason, Israel B 525
Dixon, Nathan 1 185
Greene, Benjamin
535
Dixon, Nathan F 379
585
Greene, Christopher
24
Dorr Sullivan.
198
Datr, Thomas W
328
Derrance. John. 208
Doyle, Thomas A
512
Greene, George W
366 15
Drowne, Herry B .. 245 161
Drawne, Solomon
Drowne, William
244
Duncan, Alexander.
Dann, Robinson P
Durfee, Job ..
169 83
Durfee, Thomas
511
Greene, William 108
Jackson, Charles I33
Jackson, Henry
279
McSparran, James
104
Dyer, Benjamin
184 Greenough, James C. 510
376
Greer, David H 579
Jackson, Walter M 580 Messer. Asa. 163 480
Metcalf, Edwin
Miantonomi (Indian Chief) 27 70
Miles, John.
Miller, Lewis L 271
Miller, Nathan ..
140 430 200
Miner, Bradley
Miner, Francis W
523
Easton, Nicholas
37
Eddy. John. 439
Eddy, John H. 432
Eddy, Moses ... 164
Eddy, Richard E. 309
Eddy, Samuel. 86
Edwards, Morgan. 114 Harris, George.
Eldredge, Charles. 194
Eldredge. James H 406
Ellery, Abraham R 194
Hartwell, John B. 41I
King, George G 343
King, Samnel. 154
King. Samuel W 219
Kingsbury, John. 160
Kinsley, Shepard C. 340
Knight, Benjamin B 405
Knight, Nehemiah R 212
Knight, Richard. I87 Niles, Samnel. 107
Ninigret (Indian Chief) 28
Ninigret, Thomas (Indian
Chief )
29
Oldfield, John 249
Olney, Stephen 142
Olney, Thomas 206
Padelford, Seth 190
Paine, George T 559
Park, Joseph 94
Parsons, Charles W. 473
Parsons, James H. 533
Parsons, Usher
75 170
Patten, William S. 290
Payne, Abraham 418
Pearce, Dutee J 235
Pearce, Edward 313 297 331 489
Peck, William E
Peckham, Fenner H 456
Pendleton, James M. 470
Gardiner, Sylvester 103
Hopkins, Esek
19
Gardner, Caleb 116
Hopkins, Horatio L
447
Lyman, Daniel ... 208
Lyman, Daniel W 582
Lyman, Henry B 249
Lyndon, Josias 97
Lyon, Merrick 399
Malbone, Edward G. 188
Malbone, Francis 159
Mallett, Edward J .. 266
Manchester, Cyrus B 325 Phillips, Peter.
Manchester, Henry N. 423 Phillips, Samuel 150 284
Mann, Thomas H. 577
Manning. James, 44 Phillips, William 292
Manton, Jeremiah 175
Manton, Joseph R 472
Marchant, Henry. 145
364 | Marcy, Frederick I 574
Maryott, Curtis E
571
Mason, Earl P. 297
Greene, Albert K 565
Howe, John. 206
Howell, David.
140
Mason, George C.
452
Mason, James B 189
Mason, Rohert I), 534
Massasoit (Indian Chief) 25
Mathewson, Elisha 2II Matteson, Charles. 515
Mauran, Joseph. 263
Greene, George S 202
Hutchinson, William. 23
Indian Chiefs 25
Ives, Moses B 225 Maxson, Charles.
210
Ives, Robert H 226 Maxson, John
242
Greene, Samuel S. 365
Greene, Simon H. 271
Greene, Timothy.
Greene, William.
Griswold, Alexander V
172
James, Samuel.
355
Jenckes, Daniel. 108
Jenckes, Joseph .. 67
Gurney, Preston 578 Jenckes, Thomas A 414
Eames, Benjamin T 432
Eames. James H 395
Farle, Caleb ... 192 Farle, George B. 250 65
Easton, John ..
Hall, William W. 540
Jillson, Ollys A 582
Johnson, Oliver. 321
Jones, William 155
Keep, Frederick E 564
Kendrick, John. 424
Kendrick. Joseph H 529
Kettell, Edward H 569
Mowry, Flisha C ..
Mowry, William A 509
Mowry William G. R 359
Murray, James. 343
Newcomb, Henry S. 461
Newell, Timothy 454
Elton, Romeo .. 235
Ely. James W. C 446 Hazard, Benjamin 176
Evans, Duty 299 Hazard, George .... 267
Fairbrother, Lewis 383
Farmer, Moses G. 438
Farnsworth. Claudius B 404 Hazard, Thomas R 276
Fay, Henry H 545
Fearing. Joseph W 289 Hedge. Josiah D. 350
Feke, Robert 105
Hendricken, Thomas F 499
Henshaw, Daniel 403
Henshaw, John P. K 243
Lanphear, Thomas P 342
Lapham, Benedict. 391
Lapham, Benjamin N. 462
Larkin, Daniel F. 428
Lawrence, Albert G. 552
Lawrence, William B 287
Lawton, Henry A 370
141 Leach, Daniel. 305
Lightfoot, Robert. III
Lincoln, John L.
416
Lippitt, Christopher
88
23
Lippitt, Henry .. 400
85 Littlefield, Alfred H 5IL Peck, Allen (
Honyman. James. IIO Littlefield, Daniel G. 467 Peck, Ira B.
Hopkins, Addison S 581
242
Gardiner, Jeremiah B .. 520 Hopkins, David ..
284
Lopez, Aaron 115
Luther, Henry H 353
Perry, Amos .
Perry, John G. 412
Perry, Mattliew C .. 254
Gerrish, A. L ... 556
Gibbs, William C. 235
Given, Arthur. 570
Gladding, Benjamin H 433 Goddard, William G. 223 Hoppin, Benjamin
Goff, Darius 340
Hoppin, Benjamin. I86
Hoppin, Courtland
539
Hoppin, Francis E
445 445
Gorham, Jabez. 240 Hoppin, Thomas F 403
Hoppin, William W 315
Howard, Albert C. 503
Gorton, Samuel. 38 Gower, Frederic A 587 Granger, Abraham H 400 Howard, Daniel .. 220 Howard, Ezra W 430
Howard, George A ...
Howard, Ilenry. 487
Greene, Albert C. 239
Greene, Benjamin F
336
Hoyt, David W 5.36
Humphreys. Lewis H 528
Hunter, William I22
Greene, Edward A
471 200
Greene, Franklin,
Hunter, William. 182
Mawney. Peter. Maxcy, Jonathan 86 I62 386 74 74 Maxson, Joseph 75 McAuslan, John. 540 490 Mckenzie, James A 375
Dyer, Benjamin 171 172 Greene William 261
Jackson, Richard. I71 Meader, John. 280
Dyer, Elisha.
Dyer, Elisha
Dyer, Elisha ... 56,
Dyer, William H 425
Guild, Reuben A 465
Hail, George. 117 Haile, Levi ... 262
Jewett, Charles C. 398
Hall, Edward B. 154 Jillson, Francello G
572
Minturn, William I18
Moies, Charles. 357 Moies, Thomas Monroe, Ahel C. 440 442
Monroe, John A 55I Mowry, Daniel Morrison, William V 530 II7 562
Ellery, Christopher. 211
Ellery, William 99
Hayes, Wingate ... 477
Ellis, Joshua J 494
Hayward, George W 371
Hazard, John G 534
Hazard, Rowland G ... 268
Knight, Stephen A 504
Knowles, Edward P 312
Knowles, James D. 231
Knowles, John P 351
Knowles, Joseph 362
Fenner, Arthur
136
Fenner, James 197
Fenner, Nicholas A
345
Fessenden, Benjamin 139
Hidden, Henry A 420
Hidden, James C. 390
Fisher, Charles H.
Higginson, Thomas W. 478
Fiske, Caleb.
145
Fobes, Perez. 134
Hiscox, Thomas. 87
Hitchcock, Enos.
Holden, Randall
Holliman, Ezekiel.
39 21
Holmes, George B.
127
Holmes, Obadiah ..
Gammell, William 226 Gammell, William 378 Gano, Stephen 163 Hopkins, Angustus
Gardner, Clarence T. 583 Gardner, John .. IOI Gardner, John A. 520 Hopkins, Robert.
Hopkins, Pardon. 406 74
Hopkins, Samuel. 124
Hopkins, Stephen.
99
Hopkins, Stephen M. 555
Hopkins, William H. 420 146
Goff, Nathan 501
Goodwin, Daniel Le B. 289 Goodwin, Henry. 138 Hoppin, James M.
450 126
Phillips, Thomas
Pirce, William A 488
146 Pitman, John. Pitman, lohn. 218
533 348
Phelon, Benjamin
339
Phetteplace, James S. 393 26
Philip, King ( Indian Chief )
Phillips, Mowry
72
Perry, Oliver H.
394
Perry, William S ..
Peters, Arnold
Pendleton, William C. 279 381
Hopkins, James N 447
Locke, George I 541
Lockwood, Amos D 469
Lockwood, Moses B 396
Franklin, James, 90 Freeman, Edward L. 545 Honyman, James
Hazard, Jeffrey 265
Knight, Robert
487
Handy, Charles H. 542 Harkness, Albert. 464 Harris, Edward. 228
Harris, Elisha .. 237 579
Harris, William.
Hartshorn, Isaac. 337
King, David. 187
Hathaway, George W 28g
Hayward, William S. 558
Nicholson, William T 550 Nickerson, Ansel D 543
Heatly, Sueton G 135
Herreshoff Family. 518
Field Family 64 449
Hill, Thomas .J 314
Foss, Samuel S 495
Foster, Theodore 138
Francis, John B 231
Grosvenor, William 301
Jenks. John W. P
418
Jenks, William A 330 Miller. William J
Hallet, George W. 349
Ives, Thomas P. 159
Ives, Thomas P. 537 McCabe, M
316 496 230
Greene, Nathanael
Greene, Ray Greene, Richard W
Ives, Rohert H 538 Maxson, John
Howland, John 148
Dixon, Nathan F
Granger, James N 39.3
Gorham, John. 434
Perry Oliver H
Manchester, Edwin H 423
Patten, William.
7
CONTENTS.
Place, William H. 548 Shepard, Thomas 243
Porter, Emery H. Shepard, Thomas P
579
415
Thomas, Eugene E 588
Waterman, Henry 385
Potter, Asa .... 309
Sherburne, Henry 150 Thompson, Charles. 136
Potter, Dexter B 566 Sherman, Philip
Potter, Elisha R.
156
Potter, Elisha R
378
Sherman, Thomas W
387
Thurston, Alfred H.
527
Waterman, Resolved. 22 I
Potter Family ...
119
Potter, Isaac M
532
Pratt, Frederick A 505 Slater, John.
Quinby, Hosea 317
414
Slocum, John S
485
Slocum, Stephen P
429
Smibert, John
82
Tillinghast, Charles F
263
Randall, Samuel 197
Randall, Stephen 165
Randall, Stephen 165
Smith, Charles S .. 502
Tillinghast, Pardon, 207 Weeden, Stephen R 360
Randolph, Richard K 214
Smith, Francis
375
Randolph, Warren. 486
Smith, George H
489
Tillinghast, Thomas .... 236
West, Benjamin IO2
West, Samuel 337
Ray, Simon. 69
Read, Elisha T 327 Smith, John.
17 34
Tinkham, William. 461 Westcott, Josiah 216
Read, James H. 322
Reeves, David W 571
Redwood, Abraham 75
Smith, Richard.
42
Rhoades, Benjamin H 369
Rhodes, Christopher. 196
Snow, Joseph 104
Snow, William C. 247
Trevett, John .. 147
Troup, John E 505
Wheeler, Jonathan M 426
Southwick, James McK 519
Southwick, Solomon 125
Spalding, Amos F 460
Spencer, Christopher 216 Turner, William 198 Whipple, John. 216
Spencer, William.
429 369
Updike, C. A. 94
Updike, Daniel
White, Joseph. 92
White, Zehulon L 576
Rodman, Robert. 425
Rogers, Henry A 294
Rogers, Horatio 549
189
Rogers, Robert .. 146
28 I
Stafford, Rufus J.
233
127
Van Zandt, Charles C. 516 Wilbur, John
587
Staples, William R 283
Stearns, Henry A
493
Stedman, Daniel M. C.
Verin, Joshua,
Wilcox, Asa
152
Vernon, William 106
Viall, Nelson.
494
Viall, William 338
Wilkinson, Jephtha A
Wilkinson, Jeremiah 58
Sayles, Clark ... 28I Stiness, John H.
Sayles, Frederic C. 476 Stockbridge, John C.
417
Stockwell, Thomas B.
565
Vinton, John R 295
Wilkinson, Samuel
Wilkinson, William
I 74 87
Wales, Samuel H 358 Willett, Thomas 46
Wanton, Edward
77
Williams, Daniel.
236
Wanton, Gideon 79 Williams, Jeremiah
220
Wanton, John. 78 Williams, Roger ..
9
Wanton. William
78 Williams, William
127
458 Ward, Richard
82 Wilson, James
152
Ward, Samuel
95 Wood, Joseph 181
Shearman, Sylvester G. 341
Sheffield, John G 435 Sheffield, William P. 45I
497
Thomas, Allen M 339
Waterhouse Benjamin. I37
Waterman, John ... 213
Waterman, John O. 218
Waterman, John R 215
Waterman, Richard 20
Simmons, James F Slade, George H
564
Thurston, Gardiner. 123
40 Thurston, Jeremiah 175
Slater, Samuel
34 Thurston, John D ..
578
Waterman, Stephen. 491 Watson, Daniel. 307 Watson, William R 282
Wayland, Francis 54
Webb, Daniel. 196
Randall, George M 361
Webb, Thomas H
302
Smith, Alfred ... 357
Smith, Amos D 3II
Smith, Lewis B 396
Smith, Orlando. 469
Topham, John. 123
Touro, Isaac ..
167
Wheaton, Henry 202
Tourtellot, Abraum
70
Wheaton, James L 477 Wheaton, Levi 168
Rhodes, Robert. 570 Rice, Fitz James. 367
Richardson, Erastus 555
Ripley, James M 542
Robbins, Asher. 209 Robinson, Ezekiel G. 272
Robinson, Matthew 105
Rodman, Isaac P 475
Spicer, George T ....
306
Spink, Nicholas N.
Spooner, Henry J.
562
Sprague. Samuel S.
410
Updike. Wilkins 93
Whitman, Christopher A 250 Whittemore, David R 437
Wickes, Francis and John I8
Utter, George B 437 Wiggin, Chase. 385
Vandyke, Henry J 589 Wilbour, Isaac. 167
Van Slyck, Nicholas 515
Wilbur, John
IQ4
Staples, Carlton A 500
18
Vernon, Thomas 262 Wilcox, Dutee. Wilcox, Isaiah. I2]
554
Sandford, John. 40
516
Sandford, Peleg .. 54
Sands, James ...
Sayles, Albert L 48I
Stillman, Matthew
Vigneron, Norbent F III
566
Sayles, Welcome B 586 Sayles, Willard. 483 Sayles, William F .. 472
Stone, Waterman
585
Seabury, Frederick N 474
458
Seabury, Samuel I26 Swan, Lyman L 557
Seagrave, George A 490 Sears, Barnas, 61
Taber, Constant. Tabor, Stephen H. 448 207 Segar, Thomas W 384 Senter, Isaac T'aft, George Talbot, Micah J. 147 Shaw, James 3ยบ3 Shaw, James 524 Talbot, Silas.
238
90
Taylor, William V 213
Ward, Samuel 95
Woodbury, Augustus .. 486
Tefft, Thomas A
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SOUL
LIBERTY
1636
Royan Williame.
THE
BIOGRAPHICAL CYCLOPEDIA
OF
RHODE ISLAND.
ILLIAMS, ROGER, founder of Rhode Island, and the great apostle of civil and religious freedom, was born of Welsh parentage, in the year 1599. This is the date given by all his biographers with the exception of the Rev. Dr. Elton, who is of the opinion that he was born in 1606. This latter date, how- ever, hardly agrees with various expressions used by Wil- liams himself. In a letter dated July 21, 1679, he states that he was then " near to fourscore years of age." He could not with strict propriety have made use of such an expression, had he been but seventy-three. Again, in a letter to John Winthrop written in 1632, he states that he had been " persecuted in and out of " his " father's house these twenty years." Adopting the generally received date of his birth, he had been persecuted since the age of thir- teen. He could hardly have been " persecuted " for his religious convictions at the early age of six. Concerning the place of his birth history is silent. In the publications of the Harleian Society for 1874, under the heading Visi- tation of the County of Cornwall, 1620, we read that " Roger, second son of William Williams, gentleman, was baptized 24th July, 1600, in the Parish Church of Gwinear." The Rev. N. T. Rodd, Vicar of Gwinear, in a letter to the late J. Wingate Thornton, of Boston, dated Cornwall, April 12, 1877, says, " I have searched the oldest parish regis- ter, which dates back to 1560, and have found the name of Roger Williams exactly as described " in the foregoing record. The date and place of his birth may be considered therefore as fairly established. No allusion to the parents of Williams has thus far been found in any of his writ- ings; a single fact only respecting his early years has been placed on record. In the last of his published works, George Fox digg'd out of his Burrowes, he says : " From
my childhood, now about threescore years, the Father of lights and mercies touched my soul with a love to himself, to his only begotten the true Lord Jesus, and to his holy Scriptures." It is evident from this passage, taken in con- nection with others, that his father was a " gentleman " in good circumstances, that he was brought up in the worship of the Established Church, having been baptized in his infancy, and that in his early boyhood he had been taught to love and reverence the inspired word, and the blessed Redeemer therein revealed. From the place of his child- hood and youth we trace him to London, where his re- markable skill as a reporter gained him the favorable notice of Sir Edward Coke, the first lawyer of his age. He, according to the statement of his daughter, Mrs. Sadleir, sent him to Sutton's Hospital, a magnificent school of learning, now called the Charter House. It was a propi- tious circumstance that made the author of the "Bill of Rights," and the Defender of the Commons, a benefactor of the youth destined to become the advocate of free prin- ciples in the New World. Upon the completion of his pre- paratory studies young Williams was admitted to Cambridge University, where Coke himself was educated, and where Puritan and liberal sentiments have always found a more congenial home than at Oxford. He was matriculated a pensioner of Pembroke College, July 7, 1625, and in Jan- uary, 1627, took the degree of Bachelor of Arts. The evi- dence of this, as stated by Arnold, in his history of Rhode Island, may be seen in the original records, which the writer has recently been permitted to examine through the kindness of Mr. Bradshaw, Librarian of the University. Mr. Williams now commenced the study of the law, under the guidance of his illustrious patron. The providence of God may here be seen, in thus leading his mind to an
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