Category: History - American
TERRITORY OF RHODE ISLAND IS INCREASED BY THE ADDITION OF BLOCK ISLAND.--DISPUTES BETWEEN RHODE ISLAND AND THE OTHER COLONIES SETTLED BY ROYAL COMMAND.--STATE OF AFFAIRS IN THE COLONY IN 1667.
TERRITORY OF RHODE ISLAND IS INCREASED BY THE ADDITION OF BLOCK ISLAND.--DISPUTES BETWEEN RHODE ISLAND AND THE OTHER COLONIES SETTLED BY ROYAL COMMAND.--STATE OF AFFAIRS IN THE...
10. CHAPTER X.11. CHAPTER XI.12. CHAPTER XII.13. CHAPTER XIII.14. CHAPTER XIV.15. CHAPTER XV.16. CHAPTER XVI.17. CHAPTER XVII.18. CHAPTER XVIII.19. CHAPTER XIX.20. CHAPTER XX.21. CHAPTER XXI.22. CHAPTER XXII.23. CHAPTER XXIII.24. CHAPTER XXIV.PROPOSITION FOR THE UNION OF THE COLONIES.--ACTIVE MEASURES TAKEN LOOKING TOWARDS INDEPENDENCE.--DELEGATES ELECTED TO CONGRESS.--DESTRUCTION OF TEA AT PROVIDENCE.--TROOPS RAISED...
25. CHAPTER XXV.26. CHAPTER XXVI.27. CHAPTER XXVII.28. CHAPTER XXVIII.29. CHAPTER XXIX.30. CHAPTER XXX.31. CHAPTER XXXI.32. CHAPTER XXXII.33. CHAPTER I.The nations of antiquity, unable to discover their real origin, found a secret gratification in tracing it to the Gods. Thus a religious sentiment was connected with the foundat...
34. CHAPTER II.When the sentence of banishment was first pronounced against the future founder of Rhode Island, his health was so feeble that it was resolved to suspend the execution of it til...
35. CHAPTER III.The territory which now forms the State of Rhode Island, with the exception of Bristol County, in which lay Mount Hope, the seat of Massasoit, chief of the Wamponoags, was held...
36. CHAPTER IV.I have said that two other colonies had been founded in Rhode Island. Like Providence, they both had their origin in religious controversy. Not long after the return of Roger Wi...
37. CHAPTER V.We have seen that in 1643 Roger Williams had been sent to England as agent to solicit a charter for the three colonies of Narragansett Bay. He found the King at open war with th...
38. CHAPTER VI.And now, just as the new Province was entering upon that chartered existence which was to lead to such brilliant results, the wise and peaceable Canonicus died, closing in humil...
39. CHAPTER VII.And now it seemed as though the little Colony might peaceably return to its original organization and devote itself to the development of its natural resources. But the spirit o...
40. CHAPTER VIII.The charter of Charles II. was a practical recognition of the right of self-government. The government which it established, like that instituted by the colonists in their first...
41. CHAPTER IX.TERRITORY OF RHODE ISLAND IS INCREASED BY THE ADDITION OF BLOCK ISLAND.--DISPUTES BETWEEN BLOCK ISLAND AND THE OTHER COLONIES SETTLED BY ROYAL COMMAND.--STATE OF AFFAIRS IN THE...
42. CHAPTER X.I have now reached the story of the longest and bloodiest war which the colonists had yet waged with the Indian. It is known in colonial history as King Philip's war, and belong...
43. CHAPTER XI.War was followed by pestilence, which moves so fatally in her train. Of this pestilence we only know that it ran its deadly course in two or three days, and left its traces in a...
44. CHAPTER XII.The woes of Rhode Island begin anew. Scarcely had the war ceased when Connecticut as we have already seen renewed her claim to Narragansett. Massachusetts soon followed in the n...
45. CHAPTER XIII.Disputes of title fill, as we have seen, a full but monotonous chapter in this part of our history. Among them was the dispute for Potowomut, a neck of land on Coweset Bay which...
46. CHAPTER XIV.Thus a provisional government took the place of the charter government under which New England had grown so rapidly. A great and successful experiment in political science was s...
47. CHAPTER XV.Rhode Island had never hated Andros as bitterly as the other colonies had hated him, for the freedom of conscience which he endeavored to force upon them was in her a fundamenta...
48. CHAPTER XVI.If we may judge the prosperity of the Colony by the increase of taxation--and taxes it must be remembered were self-imposed--we shall find that Rhode Island at the beginning of...
49. CHAPTER XVII.The treaty of Utrecht gave peace to England and her dependencies, leaving them free to follow out the peaceful development of commerce and manufactures. War had brought on paper...
50. CHAPTER XVIII.Nearly a generation had passed since a new governor had been chosen, but the place made vacant by death was now to be filled. The choice fell upon Joseph Jenckes, (May, 1727.) H...
51. CHAPTER XIX.Events were preparing a closer union of the colonies. England declared war against Spain--a war of commercial rivalry, for Spain was a maritime power of the first class, and cla...
52. CHAPTER XX.War still continued to give its stern coloring to legislation. The Tartar was held ready for instant service. The Governor and his council were vested with the power of laying a...
53. CHAPTER XXI.The war was almost over, although privateers still endangered maritime commerce. First an armistice was agreed upon for four months and then peace was signed at Aix la Chapelle,...
54. CHAPTER XXII.Thus far we have traced the progress of Rhode Island, step by step from the first small settlement on the banks of the Mooshausick to the flourishing Colony, which, by its firmn...
55. CHAPTER XXIII.The feud of the two parties which had so long divided the Colony ceased at the approach of danger from abroad. A new Governor was elected, Josias Lyndon, and a new Deputy-Govern...
56. CHAPTER XXIV.PROPOSITION FOR THE UNION OF THE COLONIES.--ACTIVE MEASURES TAKEN LOOKING TOWARDS INDEPENDENCE.--DELEGATES ELECTED TO CONGRESS.--DESTRUCTION OF TEA AT PROVIDENCE.--TROOPS RAISED...
57. CHAPTER XXV.From the 4th of May, 1776, the Declaration of Independence of Rhode Island, to the battle of Tiverton Heights, on the 29th of August, 1778, she lived with the enemy at her door,...
58. CHAPTER XXVI.The Americans were sorely disappointed. They had taken up their arms with such confidence of success that they could not bear to lay them down with so little done. Their murmurs...
59. CHAPTER XXVII.Great were the rejoicings over the surrender of Cornwallis--public balls, firing of cannon and display of fire-works--for close upon that surrender came the longed for peace. As...
60. CHAPTER XXVIII.The question of finance meets us at every turn, and in every phase bears fatal witness to the demoralizing effects of paper money unsustained by hard money capital. At the Sprin...
61. CHAPTER XXIX.We have followed with as much detail as our limits would permit, the history of Rhode Island through the various phases of her colonial life. Before we enter upon the story of h...
62. CHAPTER XXX.Rhode Island came well prepared to her new duties. She had worked out in her own experience the most important problems of civil organization, rendering "unto Cæsar the things t...
63. CHAPTER XXXI.We have seen that the relation of the citizen to the State became the subject of attention and experiment at an early period in the history of Rhode Island. Although an avowed d...
64. CHAPTER XXXII.With the adoption of the new Constitution business returned to its natural channels. Party animosities lost somewhat of their bitterness as the various forms of industry revived...