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| RHODE ISLAND. |
| THE best informed
students of the subject believe
that the Norsemen landed in Rhode
Island, and that the mysterious
stone tower at Newport was built
by the Norwegian colonists. It
was there when the English
settlers came, and the Indians
had no knowledge of its origin. |
| Roger
Williams was the founder of Rhode
Island. He emigrated to Salem in
1631, and suffered banishment
thrice for "his new and
dangerous opinions against the
authority of magistrates."
The island of Aquidneck was
settled by exiles from
Massachusetts, at Portsmouth, in
1638, Newport in 1639, and in
1642 Samuel Gorton went into the
wilderness and founded Shawomet
(Warwick). |
| The
colonists sent Roger Williams as
an ambassador to England, where
he partly supported himself by
reading to John Milton, and
finally secured a wise colonial
charter from the Earl of Warwick. |
| When
the American Revolution broke
out, Rhode Island took up arms
with patriotic enthusiasm, and
this little commonwealth had at
one time more than 3,000
disciplined troops in the
Continental line. |
| Rhode
Island finds its main feature in
Narragansett Bay, a beautiful and
navigable arm of the sea, thirty
miles long, and branching into
ten harbors, along which, with
its bold bluffs and headlands,
islands, coves and beaches, there
are many famous summer resorts. |
| ILLUSTRATIONS. |
Stone
Mill at Newport; Roger Williams
settling Rhode
Island, 1636. |
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