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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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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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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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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
.
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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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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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
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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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