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INDEX.
St. John's encampment, Providence, 538; code of by-laws for, 539; first regular meeting of, 538 ; first officers of, 538
lodge, Newport, constitution of, 496; dissension in, 504; incor- poration of, 496; only two de- grees by, 496; revival of, 499
lodge, Philadelphia, Liber B of, 495 lodge, Providence, centennial cele- bration of, 515; charter for, 497; incorporation of, 497 ; masters of, 497 ; meetings of, 497 .
St. Paul's lodge No. 14, Newport, charter of, 506; charter of surrendered, 1818, 506; re-establishment of 1876, 506
Stockholders, given access to bank books, 304; liability of, increase of, 290; liablI- ity of, limited 1872, 312 Stock jobbing countenanced, 296 notes, excessive use of, 293
Stocks and whipping post, erection of 1638, 447
and whipping post, in Rhode,
Island, 13
Stone chimney house, the, 599-600
Stove manufacture in Rhode Island, 376 Straw plait manufacture, 369 Struggle for judicial supremacy, the, 87 Sublime country, Newport, 542
Subordinate lodge, standard for, 517
Suffolk bank system, the, 284-5; exempli- fication of in Rhode Island, 286; value of, 286
Sugar act, protest against 1764, 230; the first, 209
duty laid on, 1731, 212 refinery in Bristol, 384
Summary judgment and execution, repeal of law, 291
Sunday observance enforced, 75
Superior Court, marked change in, 104-5 ; jurisdiction and business of, 106; of Judicature, Court of Assize and General Gaol Delivery, 103-4
lodge No. 35, I. O. O. F., Central Falls, 549
Supreme council for the northern jurisdic- tion, 541 ; of sovereign grand inspectors- general of the 33d degree, 541
Court, antagonism against exercise of chancery powers, 120; cogniz- ance of, 105; equity powers may be conferred upon, 120; expres- sion of in Dorr case, 113-14; ex- tension of jurisdiction of, 106; how constituted at present, 107; legislature empowered to Increase jurisdiction of, 116; name adopt- ed, 105; of appeal, 91; officers, firmer tenure assured, 116; under constitution of
1843, 112-13 ;
vested with original jurisdiction, 157
Supreme Judicial Court, adoption of name of, 105
Surplus, beginning of accumulation, 306 Suspension in Rhode Island, 1837, 305; of banks, 1814, 284; of specle payment, 1857, 309; opposition to, 310;
Swarts lodge No. 18, I. O. O. F., Provl- dence, 548
System of redemptions, the Suffolk, 283 Tabor, John, relief for an account of the burning of his house, 393
widow, cared for by the town, 391
Taggart family, sufferings of in the revolu- tion, 639-41
farm, destruction of property on, 640 house, the, 638-43
William, 639; appointed in the Sul- livan expedition, 641; award to, by the assembly, 640-41; capture of by the British, 641-2; story of escape of, 641-43 ; story of suffer- ings of, 639-40
Talbot, Ephraim, 354
Tanneries, the early, 330
Tariff amendment of 1797, 349; and anti- tariff, conflicting claims for, 354-5 ; bill, new of 1842, 356; changes 1828, 353; convention, 1832, 354; compromise of 1832, 355; law, 1647, 191; law of 1712, 191; new bill 1824, 352; of 1816, effects of, 351; of 1846, effect on woolens, 363; protective, 231; reduction of 1857, 356; request for prohibitory, 351
Tar making, regulation of, 561-2 Tavern, a convivial party at, 574
Taverns as public meeting places, 573 ; furnishings of, 572; the early, 572 Taylor v. Place, 123
Tax and impost acts, suspension of, 226; assessors, governor empowered to ap- point, 184; assessors, llabillty of for neglect, 184 ; average annual during rev- olutionary war, 233 ; collection, how made, 234 ; collector, 1684, 185 ; for colony pri- sons, 179; law, a peculiar, of 1778, 238 ; law contest over between towns and state, 236-7 ; law, general on real estate, 1782, 238; law of 1672, features of, 186; law of 1744, features of, 237-8 ; law of 1777, 235; law of 1849, 250; law of 1872, fea- tures of, 248; laws, inadequacy of, 251; laws relating to corporations, 247-8 ; laws, tendency of changes in, 238; laws, unjust towards corporate property, 252; levles, early, 178 ; levy, Inability of state government to enforce, 225; levy of 1662, 180; of 1678, 187; on banks, right of state to, 300; on banks, the first 1804,
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242 ; on insurance companies, 240-41 ; on | Temple lodge No. 18, F. & A. M., Greenville, live stock, 185-6; on street railways, charter of, 507 ; reorganization of, 507 1898, 252; on swine and goats, 1649, 563 ; records, incomplete, 189; specific Ten days' grace, reasons for abolishing, 266 Tenth bonds, 203 ; defaulting of, 213 levied, 186; the faculty of 1744, 238
Taxation and loans the only financial re-
sources, 1776, 220; basis of, 43; begin- nings of, 174; deduction of charges for collecting, 181; details of, exemptions from, 245-6; development of 1647-1710, 176-85; difficulty of collection, 182-3 ; direct resorted to 1744, 212; exemptlons from, 189; fundamental law of, 179; general uses of 1650-1710, 197 ; improved methods of, 180; law as applied to cor- porate property, 246-7; legal aspect of same, 1825, 239-40 ; legal effects of changes in, 235 ; legal relations of the subject, 173 ; maintained in towns for local purposes, 244; on all forms of property, 237 ; personal returns for, 244; property rated at full value, 1779, 238; rates of in various years, 250; reliance of on general property, 240 ; religious and educational property exempted from, 1769, 238; Stuart view of, 177; system, changes in, between 1744-1800, 234; the assembly declared the only judge of tax- atlon, 236; thirty years without, 214; boats exempted from, 1795, 238; 1664, 181
Taxes, amount of, 1664-1700, 189; amount of, 1700-1710, 189; assessed, 1756-1774, 219; assessment of in terms of silver, 189; apportioned among towns, 1698, 188 ; characteristics of in early years, 229; cost of collection, 189-90 ; cost of collection imposed on localities, 234; delay in collection of, 1712-1714, 201; difficulties of collection, 233; failure to collect in 1756, 219; imposition of, 1658- 9, 180; levied, amount of, in five years, 233; levied in gold and silver, 233; on tradesmen, law amplified, 1699, 188-9 ; persons appointed to levy, 184 ; propor- tion of for debt purposes, 1865-68, 250; proportion of in Providence and New- port, 188; protests against, 1759-1796, 237 ; reliance of Congress on, 223 ; right of colonial government to impose, 178; special on lotteries, 241-2; to call in Continental bills, 223; towns refuse to assess, 1765-6, 236; towns vested with power to levy on estates and polls, 1748, 235 ; treasurer authorized to anticipate, 259
Tefft, George, gunmaker, 370
Temple Chapter, Warren, organization of, 528
encampment No. 2, Albany, 536 45-3
Terry, Thomas, 55
The incorporation of the towns, 53
The poor, the defective, and the criminal, 387-389
Third financial period, 1840-1865, 307
Thomas Fenner house, the, 615-16
Thomas, Samuel H., 551
Thomas W. Dorr case, judicial features of, 113-14
Thompson, Rev. Charles, 613
Thorp, John, 348, 373
Thornton, John, 626
Tillinghast, Charles F., 161 Daniel, 500 Pardon, 369, 584
Tinker, the old, 585
Tiverton, incorporation of, 62
Tonnage duty imposed, 1704, 327; of 1732, 212; imposed, 191
Torrey, Joseph, 31
Tower Hill, location of county buildings, 453
Town acts, development of stability of, 19 councils, 24; act as boards of health, 26; as an advisory board, 22 ; appeals from decisions of, 22 ; as courts of probate, 21; dutles of, 21; empowered to lay out highways in Cranston, 27; grad- ual assumption of new functions by, 24 ; grant permission to Inocu- late for small pox, 26; increase in importance of, 23; judicial powers of, 21; justices of the peace au- thorized to sit in, 38; licensing authority committed to, 24; mem- bers of, 24; power given to settle accounts, 136 ; Providence, process of rejection of objectlonable per- sons, 26; Providence, provision for, 21; relations to the central government, 22; to make regula- tions for assize of bread, 27
Town Courts, broad authority of, 133; jur- isdiction of, 192
government, development of, 17 expenditures, extraordinary, 193
meetings, 39 ; places of holding, 40; range of subjects of, 40-1; appeal to from disposers, 90; as supreme court of appeal, 91; the source of all law, 90
officers, 29; duties prescribed, 71; increase in number of, 71 ; in Prov- Idence Plantations, 21
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Town records, Providence, burning of, 436 residents, legality of, 399
treasuries, benefited by legislation, 205
Towns, action in revolution, 80
adoption of Federal Constitution by, 84; as separate colonies, 84; au- thority of, earliest exercise of, 8; care of poor in, 75 ; conditions In after revolution, 81; duties of sealer of weights and measures, more definitely defined, 37-8; election of "six men of quality" in, 36; enforcement of Sunday ob- servance in, 75; freemen in must be landholders, 50; growth of In- dividuality, 51-2; jealousy of priv- ileges in, 80; ordered to provide prisons, 448; petitions for resi- dence in, 399 ; police protection In, 73 ; privileged to make freemen, 49 ; protection from fire in, 71-2; provision for elections, 36-7; pro- vision for election of military offi- cers, 37 ; representation of In gen- eral assembly, 53-4; rural bene- fited by act of 1723, 52; sale of liquors regulated in, 74; separa- tion of mainland and island, 23; the growth of, 50; with harbors, advantages of, 51
Townsend, Capt. Thomas, election of as sheriff, 449
Trade with West Indies driven from New- port, 218
Transportation, difficulty of, in early years, 325
Treasurer's account, 1699, 196
Treasury notes, depreciation of, 220; issue of 1777, 220
Trevett v. Weeden, case cited, 107-8; great Importance of in judicial struggle, 110; the famous case of, 226-7
Trial by jury, 93
in review, abolished, 156; justices, obligations of towns to appoint, 134
Trials for high treason, 437; infrequency of new, 130; noted, 146
Trust companies, Increase of deposits in, 316; paying of Interest on time and demand deposits, 315 ; statistles of, 332; thelr functions, 315
Twenty-five acre men, the, 429
Two-town government, 1640, 174
Tyler, Ebenezer, master mason, 505
Uncas encampment No. 14, I. O. O. F., Providence, 552
Unlon Bank charter of the, 290
lodge No. 10, Pawtucket, charter of, 505
Unlon, the Newport and Portsmouth, 15 Royal Arch chapter No. 5, Woon- socket, 530
under the charter, 20 weakness of, under strain, 21
United Brothers lodge No. 13, Bristol, 547 United States bank, branch of, In Provl-
dence, 277; bank controversy, the, 297; establishment of in Providence, 1817, 288 ; removal of deposits from, 298; re- quest for in Providence, 288
branch bank, local discounts in, 288 debts refunded, 1790, 228
deposits in Rhode Island, 276 funds in R. I. banks, 1836, 298 Unity lodge No. 34, Lonsdale, charter of, 524
lodge No. 20, I. O. O. F., Providence, 548
Unlimited liability of bank stockholders, 300
Unmarried mother, treatment of, in early years, 395-6
Updike, John, 634
Unthank, Christian, 569
Vagrants and insane in same class, 418 Valentine Silk Company, the, 367
Valley Worsted mill, the, 363
Valuation and apportionment, methods of, 235 ; of personal property, imperfections of, 250; of 1762, how made, 235; the new of 1766-7, 237; abandonment of In Civil War, period, 250; changes In form of, 238 ; of 1893, 251
Van Slyck, Nicholas, 519
Varnum, Gen. James Mitchell, career of, 613
homestead, the, 613-14
Vendue masters, appointment of, 1719, 212 Verdicts, refusal of courts to set aside, 130 Vernon, William A., work of on silk culture, 367
Vessels owned in Providence, 1791, 328; number built, 1698-1708, 327; number owned in Newport, 1739, 327
Veto power of the governor, declslon agalnst. 209; legality of, questioned, 208-9
Viall, Gen. Nelson, as prison warden, 469 Vital statistics, absence of, 576 Wade, Willard, insane, neglect of, 417
Walcott, Benjamin S., 346 street, Pawtucket (plate), 67
Waldo, Daniel, 331
Waldron, Nathaniel, master mason, 502
Walling, Thomas, his candles, 563
Wampanoag encampment No. 9, I. O. O. F., Bristol, 551
Wanton, Colonel Willlam, 57
Edward, shlpbullder of 1709, 327 War between England and Spain, 1739, 212 Ward, Samuel, 162
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Warehouse lots, Providence, 42
War of 1812, consequences of, 287; effects of on manufacturers, 349; effects of on woolen manufacture, 362
Warren bank, the, 276
Warren, incorporation of, 63; marine insur- ance in, 274
War ships, building of, in Rhode Island, 327 tax, 1690, 182 with France, 1744, 214
Warwick, cotton mills in, 1829, 353
Dutch, French, etc., excluded from, 49 ; protest against tax, 1664, 176 ; settlers, early governmental con- dition of, 17; (Shawomet) settle- ment of, 6; lodge No. 16, Phenlx, charter of, 506 Washington bank, charter of 1800, 273
bank of Westerly, charter of 1800, 271
chapter, New York, the mother chap- ter, 527
encampment, Newport, 539 Insurance Company, the, 275
lodge, I. O. O. F., No. 1, Baltimore, 544; No. 3, Warren, charter of, 501; No. 5, Wickford, charter of, 502 ; No. 11, I. O. O. F., River Point, 546; Park lodge No. 51, I. O. O. F., Providence, 550
reply of President to King David's lodge, 499; visit of to Rhode Island, 1790, 499
Waterman, Benjamin, 584
Elisha, 346 Nathanlel, 615
Resolved, carpenter, 588 ; his house in the woods, 605
Weaving agencies, establishment of, in out- side citles, 349; done by hand previous to 1817, 348 ; early methods of, 337 Weaver's shop, built in Providence 1704, 337 Webb council, Warren, 533
Thomas Smith, 502 note, 527
Webster, Louis A., master mason, 526 Weddings, strange customs of, 577-8
Weeden, John H., 144 William, 54
Weetamoe encampment No. 18, I. O. O. F., Adamsville, 552
Wells, Joseph, 579
Westerly, act of Incorporation of, 54; llst of free inhabitants in, 48; record of as- signment of lots in, 48; regulation of land holdings in, 48 ; tax on personalty in 1671, 186
West Greenwich Farmers bank, 1833, llabll- Ity of stockholders in, 300; incorporatlon of, 61-2
Westminster lodge No. 27, I. O. O. F., Provi- dence, 548
Weybosset bridge, repair of, 1664, 588-90 What-Cheer lodge No. 48, I. O. O. F., Provl-
dence, 550; No. 21, F. & A. M., Provl- dence, charter of, 516
Wheaton, Charles, master mason, 501
Wheeler, Louis M., master mason, 505
Whipping as punishment, 436, 444; of- fenses punished by, 444-46
Whipple, Abigail, 622
Eleazer, 585; sketch of career of, 607-8 Hope, 622
James, bequest to, 609
John, 40, 143, 354, 590; some of the tools of, 591 John, jr., 19 ; and wife, 397
Joseph, 634 Samuel, 608 ; will of, 622
White, J. S. & Co., 372
Stillman, master mason, 524 William, 588 Zebulon, 372
Whitehouse, James G., master mason, 526 Whitman, Valentine, 588
Wilbour, Isaac, 163
Wildey, Thomas, father of Odd Fellowship, 544
Wilkinson, David, 332, 372; & Co., 348 family, manufacturing operations by, 372 ; mechanical genius of, 332
Hannah, 341-2
Isaac, 371
Jeremiah, 332
Ozias, 332
Oziel, 341 William, 346
Will, a curious example of, 137-8
Willett, Francis, 61
William Green, house of, 612-13 ; important meetings in, 612
Wills, expost facto, example of, 135-6 ; pro- bate of, prescribed, 24
Williams, Daniel, 337
Roger, 177, 590, 615, 630, 649 ; bridge built by, 193; causes of banlsh- ment of, 41; compact of govern- ment drawn by, 8 ; departure of for England, 1643, 431 ; estimate of, 3; letter from 1650, 390; preaching of in the Mowry tavern, 620 ; prin- ciples maintained by, 6; return of with charter, 11; settlement of at Providence, 4; treatment of, 389 ; title to land acquired by, from Indians, 6
Thomas R., power webbing loom by, 360
Wilmarth, Thomas, master mason, 523 Wilson, George F., 383 Windmills, Introduction of, 326, 327 Winter labors of the ploneers, 561
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Wionkeage, 626, 627
Witchcraft, no triais for in Rhode Island, 438
Wolves, bounty for killing, 570; trapping of, 563
Wood, James, father of Rhode Island Odd Fellowship, 545
William, 570
Woolen cioth, domestic manufacture of, 359; establishments, number of 1860, 365 ; factory, the first, 360; factory, the first in Providence, 360-62 ; goods manu- factures, statistics of 1900, 366; manu- factures, effects of early tariff on, 363 ; manufactures, statistics of, 365 ; of 1870, 365 ; of 1880; of 1890, 365; of 1901, 366; mills, number in the state 1810, 362 ; in 1832, 363 ; in 1840, 363; in 1850, 363
Woolens, worsteds and other textiles, 359 Woonasquatucket encampment No. 10, I. O. O. F., Olneyvllie, 551
Woonsocket commandery, charter of, 540; council No. 4, organization of, 534
court of magistrates in, 106, 134; early forge at, 374 ; edge tool mak- ing in, 374; Incorporation of as a city, 83 ; lodge No. 19, I. O. O. F., 546 ; set off as a town, 67
Workhouse, plans for county, 403 ; plans for in Providence, 1738, 402; rules for, 403- 6; the oid, in Providence, 403
Wormwood, Mary, warrant for arrest of, 396
Writ commencing action, early, 132 Yarn, early spinning of, 337 "Yellow Mili," the Pawtucket, 346 Young, Israel, 592
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