State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations at the end of the century : a history, Volume 1, Part 70

Author: Field, Edward, 1858-1928
Publication date: 1902
Publisher: Boston : Mason Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 700


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Eleventh regiment R. I. volunteers, organ- ization of, 520


Ellery, Senator Christopher, 289, 290, 292-3 William, 276; letter from, 452


Eliot, John, n 111


Ellis, Geo., n 103 Jonathan, 198


Emancipation of slaves, 91, 330


Embargo, 242, 293, 296, 308; on vessels trading with R. I., 1762, 590


Endicott, Gov. John, 13, 20, 36, 106


Enfranchised voters, 339


Enfranchisement of foreign born soldiers and sailors, 383, 385


of naturalized citizens, 364, 365, 387 Engagement of allegiance, 113 Engine, Corliss, 383


England, 15, 23. 41, 53, 65, 70, 72-7, 81, 84, 90, n 93-5, 97, 102-6, 111-12, 117, 121, 132, 134, 137, 140, 145-6, 155, 158-9, 165, 181, 184-7, 190, 196-8, 205, 218, 223-4, 229, 238, 252, 282; defeat of allies by, 1709, 554


English, the, 11, 13, 15, 36-7, 66, 70-2, 75, 77, 84, 89, 98, 104-5, 123-4, 128-9, 130, 134, 136, 138, 151-3, 159, 163, 166, 169, 174, 184, 186-8, 190, n 192, 196, 204-6, 215-6, 220, 229, 240, 248-9, 272 ; authori- ties, 149, 154, 160-1, 183; charter, 72; court, 74, 163; flag, old, 66; govern- ment, 187, 218 ; goods, 219; king's, 306; law, 48, 219; lord, 157; ministry, 186;


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INDEX.


settlement, 68 ; and Spanish war, Rhode Island warned of, 425; throne, 103, 176; trial by jury, 48, 54


Englishmen, right of, clalmed by colonists, 183, n 216, 218


Engs, George, 327, 328


Enlisted men, 379, 389


Enlisting men, provision for, 1739-40, 426


Entrenchments laid out, 1776, 452


in Bristol harbor, committee to


build, 454


Envelope secret ballot law, 360, 362, 364 Episcopal forms and rites, 143 .


Episcopalians, 175


Equality, political, doctrine of, 336


Equalization of representation, 306, 307 Equity proceedings, 374


Eric, the Northman, 3


Eslick, Capt. Isaac, 606


Esther, queen of the Narragansetts, 281


Estimate state property, 357


Estuaries of Narragansett Bay, 385


Europe, 19, 196


European, n 240; troops, 187


Evacuation of Rhode Island by 244, 246


British,


Exchange, rise in valuation of, 194 Excise, 145


Exeter, n 192, 273, 323, 361, 364


Exhibition, centennial, 383 World's Fair, Chicago, 388 Exiles, French, 282


Expedition against the British on Rhode Island, 1778, 491-502; to Canada, organ- ization of, 1709, 553 ; convention to con- sider, 555; to Canada, 1746. 568; to Port Royal, 423; troops for, 554; by sea, failure of, 571; to West Indies, forces for, 426; 1740, 558-9


Expenditure, war, 379


Exports, 177, n 253, 267


Expresses sent to Lexington by Rhode Island, 227


Extension of franchise to foreign born sol- diers and sailors, 383, 385 of suffrage, 335-9, 340, 345, 385-6 Factions, political, 82, 86-7, 114, 139, 141, 215, 293


Factories, 333, 369, 388


Factory inspection, 388; operatives, 336; towns, n 335, n 319


Fall River, R. I., n 272, 302, 353, 355, 375; incorporated as a Rhode Island town, 367 ; ceded to Massachusetts, 374, 380 Fair of Rhode Island Society for the en- couragement of Domestic Industry, 305 Familles, 95, 242, 246, 284, 336 Famllists, 175


Famine imminent in Newport at time of revolution, 241, 246; in Ireland, 358


Farmers, n 213, 253, 256, 262, 295, 317 Exchange Bank, 293


Farming, 169, 207, 273; towns, n 319, 335 Farms, 193, 273 -


Farnsworth, editor and publisher Rhode Island Republican, 289, 290


Fast-day, 228


Fauchet, M., 283


Feast, open air, 265


Federaladelphi, 279


Federal, 262, 265, n 286 ; appointment, 276; commissioners, 98, 100; constitution, 260, 265-8, 271, 273; convention, 264; doctrine, 249 ; government, 273, 297 ; hill, 337, 352 ; judges, 308 ; matters, 275, 277; offices, 275 ; party, 268-9, 271, triumphs of, 279, 287-8, 308-9, 311-3, 315, 332; rights, theory of, 253; - Whig city, 363 Federalists, 254, 265, 266-7, 282, 286,


288-9, 291-306, 309. 311-3, 315, 359 Fees, 347, 351-2, 357 ; license, 330 Fences, 151


Fenner, Arthur, 114. 115. 116. 276-8; elected governor, and holds the office for sixteen years, 279; 280, 283-4, 288; death of, 291; commissioned captain of the train band, 1672, 401 ; letter to. 1675, 404-5, 414-15 ; report of concerning the Providence garrison, 1676, 416


Arthur, jr., due bili and money order to, 417


James, 279; elected United States Senator and subsequently gov- ernor, 292 ; 293-5, 311, 315, 317, 319, 322, 342, 345-6, 348, 350-1; death of, 353 Capt. Thomas, 422


Fenwick, Mr., 67, 80


Ferries, 168


Ferry, Fogland, n 129, 236


Feudal nobles, Rhode Island landholders proud as, 336


Fever, yellow, 286-7


Field, George, 303 John, n 33 William, n 20 ; location of house of, fortified, 1675, 404 officers, authority given to enlist men, 425


Field's Point, 313; narrows, boom across, 1775, 449; fort at, 1775, 449; commit- tee to fortify, 1814, 513; and Sassafras Points, breastworks between, 1775, 444


Fifth R. I. Heavy Artillery, record of, 518 R. I. volunteers, organization of, 518 Fighting men in Rhode Island colony, 169 Fillmore. President, 361, 367


Finances, 244; of revolution, n 238 ; de- moralization of, 429


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INDEX.


Financial conditions, 253; history, n 170; Fort Denham, 457 matters, 248.


Fines, 105, 234, 341, 345, 350


Fire, 95; company, 305; district, 288; works, 218


Firearms, 226, 232 Firebrand, The, Discovered, 114 Fire Fly, steamer, 302


First Baptist meeting house, 315


Light Infantry regiment, 320, 526 regiment, civil war, return of, 517 regiment R. I. light artillery formed, 518 R. I. cavalry regiment, organization of, 518


Fish, Joseph, 198


Fisher folk, 185


Fisher, Schuyler, 361, 364


Fishermen, 210


Fisheries, 182


Fisher's Island, 105; landing on of pirate fleet, 550


Flags, 218, 266, 297 ; of truce, issue of, 583 Flax, 195


Fleet, 186, 293-1, 244, 246


American, vessels of, 1776, 606-7; sailing of from Boston, 555; as- sembling in Delaware river, 1776, 606 ; ready to sail, 607 ; trouble in, 610 ; final consequences to, 614


British, 238; enters Newport Har- bor, 234; winters there, 238, 246 French, 186; arrives off coast, 240, 241, 247 Fletcher, Governor, 153


Flogging in navy, 357


Florin, Juan, 5


Flour, 242


Fogland ferry, 129, 236 ; redoubt at, 455 Fones, Captain, 135, 186 John, n 144


Food, 241, 242, 350


Football practised by Indians, 14


Footways, 307


Forcing act, 254


Ford, Dexter, 305 Foreign born citizens, 380, 381, 383, 384, 386


plantations, committee on, 71 relations, 297


Foreigners, 358


Forestallers, 242 Forfeiture act, 340; laws, 99


Forged letters, 289


Fornance, Camp, 389


Fortifications, 231, 280, 282, 287-9 Fort Adams, 287, 451 Anne, Newport harbor, 425, 451 Barton, 453 Chastellux, 457 Daniel, 454


Duquesne, 196, 198, 205 Edward, 575


Frontenac, attack upon, 1758, 205; 437-8


Liberty, Newport Harbor, 451


George, Newport Harbor, 184, 225, 230, 425, 451; rebuilding of, 576 Greene, Newport, 452


Harrison, 457


Hill, works on, 449-50


Independence, 1775, 449


Niagara, defeat of French at, 1759, 586


Sullivan, 1777, 449


Sumter, 376-7


Ticonderoga, capture of, 1758, 436-7


Walcott, 301


Washington, Newport harbor, 280, 457


William Henry, letter describing fight at, 1757, 432-3, 513, 575; capture of by French army, 1757, 581


Forts, 145, 166, 179, 198, 216, 233, 280; colony, 170, 182


Fourth of July, 265, 266, 286-8, 314, 338 regiment volunteers organized, 517; record of, 518


Fourteenth regiment R. I. heavy artillery, colored, 521-2


Foster, Theodore, n .24, n 240; senator, 274-8 ; re-elected senator, 282, 284


town of, n 273


W. E., n 102 William, 395


Fox, George, n 96, n 119; visits Newport and Providence, 117


Hill, 114; fort and battery, 444-5, 447


Point, 24, 191, fortifications and battery at, 1775, 444-5


France, 28, 150, 153, 185-6, 196, n 203, 205, 238, n 240, 279, 282, 286, 356 Franchise, elective, 189, 254, 294-5; con- ditions of in Rhode Island, 335-7, 345, 359


extension of to naturalized soldiers and sailors, 383, 384; to foreign born citizens, 386


Francis, Brown &, 278


John Brown, 319; elected governor, 323, 327-9, 330-2, 342; elected United States senator, 347; 352 354, 368


I., 8 Franklin, J., n 208 Benjamin, proposes union of col- onies, 196, n 197, 198 Fraud, 335 Frays, border, 151


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INDEX.


Freeborne, Wlillam, n 45 Freebooters, 160


Freedom, 218-9, 226, 229, 230, 240; of con- science, 34; constitutionai, 351 ; political, 93, 103-4 ; religious as taught by Roger Williams, 21, 24, 26-7, 84, 97


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Freehold, 336, 380; ciass, n 317 ; qualifica- tion for suffrage, 309, 335-6, 338-9, 340 ; system, 335


Freeholders, 295-6, 303, 335-6, 338, 340-1 Freeman, Edward L., 389


Freemen, 105-7, 112, 116, 146-7, 149, 189, 192, 202, 204, 207-9, 224, 264-5, 269, 298,


n 301, 303-4, 309, 311, 313-4, 316, 319,


n 320-2, 336-7, 339, 340, 343, 345, 363 Free Masons, 374


masonry, 322, 340 passes on railroads, 366


schools, 287-8, 290, 303-4, 312-3, 315-16 Soil party, 356, 358, 360, 362, 367 suffrage, meeting held at Providence in favor of, 317, 359 trade, 298


Fremont, John C., 367


Freight boats, 308


French, 148, 150-2, 163, 166, 186-7, 196, 198, 205, 240-1, 268, 280, 282-4


admiral, 241


allies, 279


army, 248; arrival of 1780, 508; lands in Newport 1780, 510


families, 150 fleet, 186 ; arrives on American coast 1778, 240; arrives at New- port, 247, 616; damaged by tem- pest, 1778, 492-3


frigate, 284


operation against America 1746, 570-1 possessions, operations against, 1744-5, 560-4


privateers, 185; appearance of,


1708, 553 ; capture of sioop by, 547


republic, 286 revolution, 301


troops, 247; co-operation of with Americans, 1778, 492


war, 199, 204, 215; the oid, 1754, 427 West Indies, 205


Friends, the, 96, 97, n 127, 287; school, 325


Frigates, 234, 240, 247 ; French, 284


Frontler settlements, 196


Fruits, 6, 7, 305


Fuei, 246 Fulton company, 308


Fugitive slave law, 360 siaves, 355, 365


Fusiieers, Providence, 225 Gage, Gen., 230 Gale of 1815, 299


Gambling, 314, 360, 366


Games of chance, 280, 366 Gaols, 279


Garments, 379


Garrison house, the Jireh Buii, on Tower Hill, destroyed, 405


houses, authority given to erect, 1703-4, 422


Garrisons, 127, 215-6, 230, 240, 297-8 ; es- tablishment of


415-16


at Providence, 1676,


Gaspee, burning of the, 1772, 222, 223, 457-469, 603-4; commission to inquire into, 465; rewards offered for convic- tion of participators, 465; canes made from wood of vessel, 469; silver goblet from, 469


Point, 64, 459


Gates, Gen., 241, 246


Gavitt, Mr., 340


Gazette, Providence, 208, 217, 222, 226, 249, 259, 278, 280, 284, n 286, 289, 291, 296


Geffroy, Nicholas, 288


General assembly of Rhode Island, 75, 82-4, 86, 88, 91-5, 97, 99, 104-7, 111, 112, 114-16, 120, 122, 127, 131, 135, 137, 139, 140, 146, 149; `bicameral system intro- duced, 151; 157, 161, 167, 169, 170-1, 179, 180-5, 187-9, 192-8, 201-3, 212, n 214-8, 220, 225-9, 230-7. 242, 244, 246-7, 250-2, 254, 257-9, 260-9, 271, 274-9, 280-8, 290-9, 300, 302-9, 311-333, 335, 337-358, 360-372, 374-5, 380-1, 383-9; held at South Kingstown, 1739, 425 ; met at War- wick, 1741, 426 ; South Kingstown, 1741-2, 426; grant from to privateers, 1739, 558 ; meeting of at Newport, 1746, 568 ; order of for regiment, 1758, 435


council, 143


courts, of Massachusetts and Ply- mouth, 18-23. 58, 65, 82-3, 112


Guards, conduct of in Battle of Rhode Island, 503


muster days, 514


officers, Providence, to be elected by popular vote, 369


Quarter Sessions and Inferior Court of Common Pleas, 144


Republicans, 317-19, 322 training, provision for 1638, 395 Treasurer. 182, 189, 212, 247, 286, 316, 319 Gerry, Elbridge, 290


Geographical limits of Rhode Island, 272 George I, King, accession of. 170 II, 176; death of, 205 III, 205


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INDEX.


Georgia, 250, 251, n 261, 265 Germany, 290 Gideon, sons of, 209, 210


Gibbs, Gov. William C., 306, 311


Gilman, Congressman, 277


Gin, n 297


Glass, duty on, 269


Gloucester, town of, 185, 192, n 211, 280, 287, 292-3, 311, 325, 333-4, 340, 344, 346-7, 358, 360, 375


Glover, Gen., 240 Goat Island, 8, 282; fort on, 1700, 451 ; transports at, 1746, 570


Goddard, William, 376, 516 William G., 351 Godfrey, Capt. John, 550 Gold, 206


Gold jewelry, 352


Golden Ball Inn, 278


Goods, foreign, 216 English, 219


Gookin, General, 10 Gorman, C. E., n 380


Gorton, Samuel, 26, 35, n 47; arrives in Boston, removes to Plymouth, 57 ; fined and banished from Plymouth, 58; be- lieved in a democratic government, suh- ject to authority of the king, 59; defies the authorities and assails the officers at Newport, 59, 60; his fearlessness in ex- pressing his opinions, 61; removes to Providence and creates trouble there, 61 ; builds a house at Pawtuxet, and protests against jurisdiction which Massachusetts assumed in response to petition of the Pawtuxet proprietors, 62; removes to Shawomet and buys Warwick from In- dians, 64; resists the aggressions of Massachusetts, 65-6; besieged with his associates by Massachusetts troops, sur- rendered and carried to Boston, 66; tried and sentenced to servile labor, 67-8; on being set at liberty, returns through War- wick to Newport and settles there with his family, 69; obtains a cession of all the Narragansett lands from the Indian sachems, to the English king, 70; goes to England with Holden and Greene, pleads for redress, and obtains a decision that the Gortonists be allowed to live peace- fully at Shawomet, 71; 73, 77, 81-2, 86; chosen president of Providence Planta-


1 tions, 91; seeks reparation through the royal commissioners for persecution by Massachusetts, 111, 112


Gortonists, 64-6, 70, 80 Gortonoges, 70 Gould Island, fort on, 455


Goulding, George. 558


Government, 60, 73, 75, 119, 125, 137, 138, 139, 140, 145, 147, 158. 177, 243


Government, alien, 96; "democratical" in Providence Plantations, 84; established under charter, 81, 85; federal, 297-8 ; general, 342; home, 186; provisional, 145 ; temporary of Rhode Island, 145, 146; placed on permanent basis, 147; two distinct in the Rhode Island colony, 93


Governors, 91, 104, 106, 114-5, 123, 125, 134, 144-5, 147-9, 153-5, 166, 179, 180, 182, 184, 192, 197, 199, 206, 208, 210-2, 228, 242, 320-1; royal, 161-2, 167, 544-5 ; of Rhode Island not entitled to veto un- der charter, 181; convention of, 1758, 582


Grain, scarcity, 302 Grand Council, 197 Committee, 308, 327 Lodge, Masons, 322 Grahame, James, historian, n 101, n 103 Great Britain, 173, 187, 215, 233, 296-7 Swamp fight, 1675, 406-10


Greeks, 10


Greene, Maj. Gen. Albert C., 307, 324, 327, 352


Castle, Warwick, 410 Capt. James, 422


John, n 31, n 61, n 64, 70-1, n 129, 132, 139, 140, 156


Maj. Gen. Nathanael, 229, 230, fac simile of oath of allegiance to United States, 239; 240, 242; fac simile of oath as quartermaster general, 245; 247-8, n 312, 442; ordered to Rhode Island, 489


Peter, n 72 Simeon Henry, 375


Gov. William, 199, 201; re-elected, 203; 242-4, n 246, 254, 288 ; letter from, to Governor Trumbull, 1778, 487 ; letter from, to Henry Mar- chant, 488 ; letter from, 1746, 569- 70 William, of East Greenwich, 285 Greenland, 3 Grenville, 215


Greenwich, 11


Greenman, Captain Edward, 422


Greensdale, landing of British troops in 1776, 470


Gregory, William, 388


Greyhound, the, captures pirates, 1723, 557 Grist mills, 122


Grog shops, 368


Guard ship, stationed in river, 512


Gubernatorial contests, 327, 329, 352, 361


Gunsmiths of the colony, appointment of, 397


Guerilla method of Indian warfare, 126 Guild, R., n 259 Gulf of Persia. 154 of St. Lawrence, 205


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INDEX.


Guns, 95, 216, 230, 344


Hale, Free Soil candidate for president, 362 Hall, Isaac, 367


Lauriston, 354, 356


Hallldon Hill, battery erected, 1781, 455-6 Hamilton, Alexander, 276, n 312 Duke of, 98 Lord Marcus, 80


Hancock, packet, 277 Hautreville, Madame, 334


Hawthorne, William, 107


Harbor, Newport, 284


master, Providence, 369


Providence, fortified during revolu- tion, 231; its improvement by Na- tional government, 385 Harbors, 142, 153, 160, 240 of refuge, 153


Hard labor, 364 money party, 169 time, 326, 361


Hardware, 295


Hargill, Lt.Col. Christopher, 440 Harris case, 132


Col. Christopher, 428, 573, 589


Edward, 353, 354, 356, 358, 360, 362 Elisha, 353-6, 361


Robert, n 96


Thomas, n 33


William, n 24, n 29, n 30, n 31, 32 ; heads faction, 114 ; accused of high treason, 95-6; contends for his interpretation of original deed, 113, 114 ; controversy with Arthur Fenner and Roger Williams, 114- 116 ; becomes a Quaker, 117 ; favors Connecticut in boundary dispute, 121, 122; is imprisoned at New- port, but soon released, 121; ac- tive in efforts to acquire land,


asking that Narragansett be put under jurisdiction of Connecti- cut, 132; appointed agent of Con- necticut in England in regard to the Narragansett controversy, 133 ; is captured by pirates, carried to Algiers, returns to England and dies there, 134; n 142, 415


Harrison, Peter, 177 President William Henry, 329, 333 Hart, Charles, 369, 370


Hartford, 74, 77


convention, 298-9, n 312, 332, 359


Havana, capture of 1762, 205, 591; llst of killed from Rhode Island, 440-1 Haversham, 139


Hawes, Brigadier-General Joseph, 306-7


Hawk, British schooner, capture of, 1776, 608 Haynes, Governor, 26-7, 77


Hazard, Benjamin, n 298, 303, n 317, 322, 326, 328; career, death, 334 Charles T., 371-2 Jeffrey, 323, 327-9, 330 Judge Joseph, 257 Nathaniel, 294, 303-4 Robert, 352 Thomas, n 47 Thomas J., 356 1 Thomas R., 361 Willard, 354


Hazard's report against extending the suf- frage, 317


Heavens, William, n 48


Heavy artillery, 379


Helluland, 3


Hemp, 168 Henrick, Stephen, 347, 349 Herald, newspaper, n 318 Providence, 336 Republican, 316, 329, 350


Heraldry of England, 60


Heretics, 68, 97


Hell gate, n 246


Herjulfson, Bjarni, 3 Hickory, Young, 350


Higginson; 16, 18


High sheriff, 281 school, 332 street, 321, 374 treason, 95, 348 Highways, 168; state, 388


Hillsborough, Lord, 219, 223


Hill, Thomas J., 379


Hine, Mr., 303


Historical sketches, 383 society, Rhode Island, 290, 308


History of State, 383


Hitchcock, Enos, 265


Hog Pen Point, fort on, 1775, 451


130; signs petition to king Holbourne, Rear Admiral, 578


Holden, Randall, 46, n 64, 70-1, 83, n 129, 132, 139


Holland, 15-6, 92


Holmes, Obadiah, 89


Hoiliman, Ezekiel, n 31, 32


Holyman, Ezekiel, 38


Home lots of Providence, 32 rule in towns, 82 Captain Rodman, 283, 284


Homes, 128-9


Honeyman, James, n 210, 577 Hooker, Mr., 22 "Hope," motto of colony, 147 street, 32


Hopkins, C. W., n 32


Esek, n 230, 231; admiral, n 233; Captain, 444; commissioned Brig- adier-General of R. I. forces, 1775, 604; appointment as commander- in-chief of American fleet, 1775,


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INDEX.


604 ; departure of for Philadelphia, 1776, 606; expedition of to New Providence, 607 ; return of to New


London- congratulated by Con- gress, then censured, 608; contin- ued criticism of-arrival of with fleet at Providence, 609 ; prepares fleet for a cruise, 610; summoned before marine committee, 610 tried and censured hy Congress, and ordered to return to Rhode Island, 611; causes of feeling against, 610-11; letter from re- garding English fleet, 1776, 612; ordered to Cape Fear, 1776, 612; failure of to capture frigate Dia- mond, 613 ; letter from to William Ellery, 1777, 614 ; dismissed from service, 1778, 614; election of as representative to Rhode Island general assembly, 614; death of, 1802, 616


Hopkins, Isaac, 579 Capt. John, 461


Stephen, n 24; opinion of execution of Miantonomo, 78, 195 ; delegate to Albany Congress, 196, n 197 ; early career, 199, 201; elected governor, 201; re-elected-charges against, 202 ; issues a pamphlet in answer to charges-is defeated for the governorship-brings suit against Ward, 203 ; elected gover- nor four successive years, 204; 206, 207; defeated by Ward, 204, 208; again elected governor, 209; offers Ward office of deputy-gover- nor, 210; again elected, but de- feated by Ward at two successive elections, 211 ; wins a signal vic- tory over Ward, 211; offers to resign in order to bring about bar- mony, 212 ; offer accepted by Ward and "plan" put in execution, 213; 214, 215 ; writes pamphlet, "The Rights of Colonies Examined," 217, n 223, 225, n 230, 470, 568


-Ward controversy, outbreak of, 193, 199, 203; 204, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212; end of, 213, 214 William, deposition of, 418; 426, 559 Hopkinton, 281, 299, 306, 353, 356


Hoppin, Governor William W., 362, 364-7, 375


Horse racing forbidden, 281 railroads, 374


Horses, 169, 183, 328


Hospital, 287 ; guards, organization of, 521; service, 244 Hotel, City, 325 keepers, 330


Hours of labor, 362


Houses burned in King Philip's War, 126-7 colonial, 336


demolished in riot, 320, 321


House of Commons, 149, 165, 183, 194 of Lords, 165 lots, 335 Howard, Martin, 196, n 217 Gov. Henry, 381


Howe, Lord, 241


Howell, Judge David, 249, 250-1, 257-8 Senator Jeremiah B., 294, 299


Hubbard, Governor of, New Hampshire, 345, 350


Hudson, Henric, 9 river, 308 Mr. of Wickford, 119


Huguenots, 28 in Rhode Island, 150, 151


Hulks, anchored off Pawtuxet, 514


Hull, Captain, exploits as a privateer, n 93, 185


John, 98


Hungarian patriot, 361


Hunters, Scituate, 225, 441


Hunter, William, 292, n 295, 304, 313


Husband, 334


Husband's personal estate, 368


Hutchinson, Mrs. Anne, 28, 38, 40-1; trial and hanishment, 43-4; 56, 58 Ed., jr., n 46


Ed., sr., n 46


party, 43 Gov. William, 47, 49, n 102 WVm., jr., n 46


Hypocrisie Unmasked, 71


Iceland, 3 Idle factories, 369


Idol, General, 65


Illiteracy in Rhode Island colony, 166


Ill-repute, houses of, 368


Illuminations, 302


Immigration, 358


Impeachment, 258 Importation acts, 219


Importation of slaves into South Carolina, 305


Imports, 215, 219, 252-4, 295


Import duties, 84, 219, 250-2


Imposts, 250, 251-2, 260, 267-8, 275


Impressment of seamen, 216, 284, 291, 298 Imprisonment for debt, 334, 363, 371 for life, Dorr sentenced to, 349


Inauguration of Gov. Dorr, 342-3 Incorporation law, 355


Indemnity granted Rhode Island colony, 186 Independence of America, 249


English official said the Rhode Island colonists were thirsting for In 1700, 159; struggle for, 183; 187, 219, 224, n' 240, 270


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INDEX.


Independence day, 265-6, 338 Declaration of, 233, 349


of Rhode Island declared, 232, 233, 273


of United States acknowledged, 248 Independent military companies, 347 ; after the revolution, 510; authority given to increase their ranks, 1812, 511; present organizations, 529


Independents, 177


Indians, names, 4; inscriptions, 5; man- ners, customs, religion, theory of origin, language, characteristics, numbers, etc., Intolerance, 89 6-15 ; 19, 24, 32, 36; leagne with Narra- gansetts and Mohegans against the Pequots, 37; depredations, 55; 72, 74, Ireland, 358 76-8, 86, 89, 94, 98-9, 105, 114; rights, 116 ; their unrest at the encroachments of the whites, 122-4; not to be molested in Rhode Island by other colonists, 125-6; Iron, 388 destroy mainland towns during King Philip's war; their ultimate fate, 128 ; 132, 135, 163, 166-7, 176-7; 186, n 192, 196 ; battle with, 1676, 410 ; fort, descrip- tion of, 407; ordered out of town, 398; | Isle of Rhodes, 50 need of protection from, 395; threatened Italy, 177 danger from, 404; wars, 136, 149, 406; ancient account of, 417 ; warfare, horrors of, 126, 401 ; wrongs inflicted upon, 395 ; Narragansetts, 280-degradation of, 324 -tribal authority abolished, 385


India Point, 24, n 297, n 303 street, 286 Tea, 226


Individuality, rampant in Rhode Island col- ony, 85-6 ; promoted by institutions of, 185


Individual authority surrendered, 273


Industries, 248, 258, 303, 336, 351, 383, 388 Industry, domestic, Rhode Island society for the enconragement of, 305


. Industrial development, 305, 358


Inequality of representation iu General As- sembly, 306-7, 335-6, 339


Iufantry, 379; first regiment of, 377; regl- ment organized, 1861, 516; regiment au- thorized, 1898, 523


First Light, 320, 321 Providence Light, 225


Infectious diseases, 369, 372 Ingolf, 3


"Initial Deed," n 31, 32


Initiative practiced under first charter, 83; 309


Inns, 278, 289


Innholders, 244


Innkeepers, 350


Inoculating, n 236


Insolveut debtors, 293, 312, 314, 316, 319, 321 Inspectors, factory, 388


Insurance companies, 293 Insured, 201


Insurrection of 1842, 343, 358


Intercolonlal War, 196


Interest, 169, 170, 178, 188, 254; legal rate, 369


Interference in Rhode Island affairs by na- tional government resented, 348


Internal taxes, 219


Interstate commerce, 309 trade, 252


Intestate estates, 280


Intoxicating liquors, manufacture and sale of prohibited, 366, 384


Irish, 316 ; large infusion of in population, 359 George, 327


Islands, 176-7, 205, 272; foreign, 183


Island of Rhode Island, 199, 231; occupied by British, 235, 236; 240; evacuation, 244, 246, n 268


Ives vs. Hazard, case of, 371 Robert H., 371 Thomas P., 623, 625


Jacobins, 287, 295, 301, 359


Jacksonians, 317 Jackson, Charles, 352-3, 368


President, 315-8, 323, 325-6, 330, 345, 350, 359 Richard, Jr., 292-3, n 296-7


Jail, 100, 176, 320, 348, 350, 352, 355; common, 66; Newport, 170; Providence, 234 Jamaica, 184


Plain, 230


James, Charles T., 359, 360 ; Senator, 368 Thomas, n 31, n 32


Jamestown, n 128, 177, n 211, 282


Jay treaty, 285


Jeffersonians, 317


Jeffersonian Republicans, 316


Jefferson, President Thomas, 276-8, 287-8, 290-3, 314


Jeffries, Robert, 56, 395


Jencks, Daniel, 211


Jenckes, John, 597


Governor Joseph, 176; vetoes an act calling for an issue of paper money, 179; 180; defeated for governorship, 182; 199


Jersey, East and West, 145


Jesuits, 67 Jewelry, 388 gold, 352


Jews, 10, 28, n 222, 260 Johnson. Col. William, 573


649


INDEX.


Johnston, town of, n 211, 311, 322, 326, 333, | Kings, Charles II, 100-1, 105, 107-8, 110, 346, 366, 381, 388-9




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