Download or read book Benedict Arnold First Governor of Rhode Island written by Hamilton Bullock Tompkins and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Benedict Arnold the First Governor of Rhode Island written by Hamilton B. Tompkins and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-23 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Benedict Arnold, the First Governor of Rhode Island: A Paper Read Before the Society August 18th, 1919 In an interview with Mr. Rider a few years before his death, he told me that he had not seen the Harris papers themselves at the time he wrote, as he was denied access to them, and they were not at that time in the possession of the Rhode Island Historical Society, and it is fair to presume that Mr. Paine also had not seen them, or he would not have made the statement he did, impugning the assertion of Mr. Rider in the Harris suit above referred to. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Benedict Arnold written by Hamilton Bullock Tompkins and published by Kessinger Publishing. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Download or read book LIFE AND TIMES OF BENEDICT ARNOLD written by JAMES NEWELL. ARNOLD and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Life and Times of Benedict Arnold First Governor of Rhode Island Under the Charter written by James Newell Arnold and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Burying Place of Governor Arnold written by Alice Brayton and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book John Dee s America written by James Alan Egan and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part 1: In 1578, John Dee (1527-1608) wrote series of four manuscripts entitled Limits of the British Empire, explaining why Queen Elizabeth had a legal right to North America (except for Florida, which the Spanish already occupied). Dee's text was lost for centuries, but in 1976, it was discovered and acquired by the British Library. In it, Dee explains that earlier Englishmen like King Arthur, Saint Brendan, Prince Madoc, and John and Sebastian Cabot had already claimed the New World for England. The farsighted Dee even coined the term "British Empire." Convinced by Dee's numerous arguments, the Queen granted letters patent for all of North America north of Florida to one of the generals in the English army, Sir Humphrey Gilbert. Dee chose the site for the Gilbert's first colony (Narragansett Bay in modern Rhode Island). He even named it after himself, the "Dee River and port." In 1582, Dee and his team sent a "preliminary expedition" of two ships and about 80 men. I claim this mission built the Tower, following Dee's blueprints, to be the colony's city center. The settlement failed to take root, but the Tower got built, and it still stands in Touro Park, Newport. Part 2: Governor Benedict Arnold (1615-1678), the first Governor of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations No, this is not Benedict Arnold the traitor. It's the traitor's great-great-great grandfather. The Revolutionary War traitor, Benedict Arnold (V), lived a century after RI Governor Benedict Arnold (I). But, because of his name, Governor Benedict Arnold has been left out of most books on Rhode Island history. And it's a shame, he is he is one of the most imprtant figures in the birth of Rhode Island, which was the birthplace of religious freedom. In 1663, Benedict was appointed by King Charles II to be first Governor of the state. The general populace re-elected him seven times, and when he died, about a thousand people attended his funeral. I also assert Benedict Arnold was responsible for naming Aquidneck island "Rhode Island." And for adopting the "Anchor of Hope" as the state symbol. And for naming the natural harbor at the mouth of the bay "Newport." Furthermore, he named it "Newport," after Newport/Caerleon, Wales, to commemorate King Arthur's Camelot. Camelot? Most modern scholars think King Arthur is fictional. But what we moderns think doesn't really matter. What matters is that back in the 1500s and 1600s the English felt King Arthur actually existed. Not only was he their inspirational hero, they felt the chivalrous Arthur would some day return to save his people. In the mid-1630s, Benedict Arnold was one of the first colonial settlers on Narragansett Bay. I suggest he claimed the Tower and used Newport as an outpost on his three-day shipping route. He transported furs and bushels of Narragansett Indian corn to Boston, and returned with cooking implements, tools, guns, ammunition, and liquor. He soon became one of the wealthiest colonists. Many clues suggest Benedict knew all about the Elizabethan colonization effort of 1583 and how the Tower functioned as a horologium, a building that keeps track of time. Benedict Arnold was buried about 500 feet west of the Tower. And about 500 feet west of his grave was where his Governor's mansion stood, on Thames Street across from his wharf (now called Bowen's Wharf). The Roots of Freedom in America During John Dee's life, England's prevailing religion flipped from Catholic to Protestant to Catholic to Protestant. Dee's dream was to establish a New World utopia, where all religions would be tolerated. And in the 1600s, it was Rhode Island Governor Benedict Arnold who made Dee's vision a reality. And the freedom of conscience enjoyed by Rhode Islanders later influenced the writers of the United States Constitution.

Download or read book Report of J N Arnold written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Report of J. N. Arnold: Commissioner to Inquire Into the Present Condition of the Governor Benedict Arnold Burial Place, and the Title Thereto; Made to the General Assembly at Its January Session, 1901 May IT please your honors z - Agreeable to a resolution passed June 13, 1900 (see Appendix A), the governor was requested to name a judicious person whose duty it should be to inquire into the present condition of the burial place of the first governor of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, with such other facts as may be thought pertinent connected therewith, and report the same to the next January session of the General Assembly, that appropriate action may be taken thereon. Agreeable therewith the governor was pleased to name the undersigned the said judicious person, which pleasing duty he has performed carefully; and the recommendations he makes, and suggestions, are no reflection on any persons who are striving to still deface and blot out this sacred spot. He has framed his remarks as carefully as he thought the subject would bear and yet give the full facts in the case without any concealments so far as such facts have come to his knowledge. Governor Benedict Arnold (your commissioner thinks) deserves, in view of his great and distinguished public services, a fitting recognition at the hands of the people whose cause he so ably defended in his day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book LIFE and TREASON of BENEDICT ARNOLD written by Jared Sparks and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-07 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the first settlers and proprietors of Rhode Island was William Arnold, a name of some note in the local annals of his time. He had three sons, Benedict, Thomas, and Stephen. The eldest, that is, Benedict Arnold, succeeded Roger Williams as president of the colony under the first charter, and he was at different times governor under the second charter during a period of fifteen years; a proof of the respect in which he was held by his contemporaries.The family spread out into several branches. One of these was established at Newport, from which place two brothers, Benedict Arnold and Oliver Arnold, emigrated to Norwich in Connecticut, the former about the year 1730, or perhaps a little earlier, the latter several years afterwards. They were coopers by trade, but Benedict discontinued that occupation soon after his removal to Norwich, and engaged in commerce. He made one or two voyages to England, but was principally concerned in navigation to the West Indies, and was owner of the vessels he commanded. Having accumulated means sufficient to enable him to change this pursuit for one which he liked better, he became a merchant, and for several years carried on an extensive business at Norwich. He was a man of suspicious integrity, little respected, and less esteemed. Prosperity deserted him, and by degrees he sank into intemperance, poverty, and contempt.In the mean time he had married Mrs. Hannah King, a widow lady, whose name before her first marriage was Waterman. Her family connexions were highly respectable, and she is represented as having been eminent for her amiable temper, piety, and Christian virtues. The children of this second marriage were three sons and three daughters. Benedict, the eldest, died in infancy. The same name was given to the next son. Of the six children, only he and his sister Hannah survived the years of childhood.Benedict Arnold, the second son above named, and the subject of this notice, was born at Norwich, on the 3d of January, 1740. As his father's affairs were then in a successful train, it is probable he enjoyed the advantage of as good schools as the town or its vicinity afforded.For a time he was under the tuition of Dr. Jewett, a teacher of some celebrity at Montville. There is no evidence, however, that his acquirements reached beyond those usually attained in the common schools. While yet a lad he was apprenticed to two gentlemen by the name of Lathrop, who were partners as druggists in a large establishment at Norwich, and alike distinguished for their probity, worth, and the wide extent of their business. Being allied by a distant relationship to the mother of the young apprentice, they felt a personal interest in his welfare, especially as no benefit to him was now to be hoped from the example or guidance of his father.It was soon made obvious to these gentlemen, that they had neither an agreeable nor an easy task before them. To an innate love of mischief, young Arnold added an obduracy of conscience, a cruelty of disposition, an irritability of temper, and a reckless indifference to the good or ill opinion of others, that left but a slender foundation upon which to erect a system of correct principles or habits. Anecdotes have been preserved illustrative of these traits. One of his earliest amusements was the robbing of birds' nests, and it was his custom to maim and mangle young birds in sight of the old ones, that he might be diverted by their cries. Near the druggist's shop was a schoolhouse, and he would scatter in the path broken pieces of glass taken from the crates, by which the children would cut their feet in coming from the school. The cracked and imperfect phials, which came in the crates, were perquisites of the apprentices. Hopkins, a fellow apprentice and an amiable youth, was in the habit of placing his share on the outside of the shop near the door, and permitting the small boys to take them away, who were pleased with this token of his good will.

Download or read book The History of Benedict Arnold the Traitor written by and published by . This book was released on 1779 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inscribed: Govenor [sic] 1678. Refers to Arnold's ancestor Benedict Arnold, governor of the colony of Rhode Island, who died in 1678.

Download or read book History of the State of Rhode Island written by Samuel Arnold and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-28 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

Download or read book History of the State of Rhode Island Providence Plantations written by Samuel Greene Arnold and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Arnold Family Record 323 Years in America written by Ethan L. Arnold and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arnold family immigrated from England to Massachusetts in 1635, and later moved to Rhode Island.

Download or read book The History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations written by Thomas Williams Bicknell and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Life of Benedict Arnold His Patriotism and His Treason written by Isaac Newton Arnold and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VII. ARNOLD SUPERCEDED, AND HIS FIGHT AT RIDGEFIELD. "I am anxious to know whether General Arnold s non-promotion was owing to accident or design; and the cause of it. Surely a more active, a more spirited, and sensible officer fills no department of your army."--Washington. 1 "May the broad hand of the Almighty overshadow you; and If called to battle, may the God of armies cover your head in the day of it."--Hannah Arnold to hir Brother. Arnold In Washington's Camp-sent To Rhode Island--Advances 1,000 To Aid Lamr In Raising His Regiment-Offers Himself To The Beautiful Miss Derlois--Five Junior Brigadiers Promoted Over Him--He Witholds His Re Signation At Washington's Request--Hls Desperate Rattle, And Escape At Ridgefield -- Congress Vote Hi.m A Horse, And Commission Him A MajorGeneral--Declare The Charges Of Brown To Re Cruel Aspersions Upon His Character--Washington Begs Congress To Send Him North To Aid In RePelling Burgoyne. On his arrival at Ticondcroga, Arnold was most cordially welcomed by Generaf Gates. His popularity had been greatly increased by bis conduct in the battle upon Lake Champlaiu. Mr. Sparks says: "Some writers have commented on the execution of this enterprise in a tone of captious criticism, which can by no means be sustained by an impartial view of the subject.-1 Arnold was gent out to meet the enemy. Whether he should fight or not, it is true, was left to his discretion. He chose the former, and was beaten; but not until he had maintained a combat for half a day. with a force nearly double his own, and caused the enemy to retire. This fact is enough to prove that his position was L Letter to Richard Henry Lee. Sparks' Writings of Washington, Vol. IV. p. 351. 2. Life of Arnold, pp. 80-81. See...

Download or read book Love Conquers All The Birth of Tolerant Newport in the Mid 1600s written by James Alan Egan and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-19 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ask any Rhode Islander, "Who was the founder of Rhode Island?" The answer will probably be "Roger Williams." This book contends the founding of Rhode Island was actually a collaborative effort. There were at least four other leaders who were just as important as Roger Williams in the half-century from 1636 (the founding of Providence) to 1683 (when Roger Williams died). Four of the five leaders lived in Newport: Benedict Arnold was appointed by King Charles II to be the first Governor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in 1663. He was reelected him for seven more terms. (This famous Governor Benedict Arnold is the great-great-grandfather of the infamous traitor of the same name.) William Brenton served two terms as Governor of the State. John Clarke, theologian, doctor, and statesman, negotiated the State Charter of 1663 while living in London for thirteen years. William Coddington attempted to become Governor of Life of Aquidneck Island. He failed, but was later exonerated and became Governor of the State for two terms. Roger Williams was the only one of these five leaders who lived in Providence. He was the President of the Colony for several years, but disliked being a leader, and was never Governor of the State. Mercantile Newport Newport was the center of business and government in the colony of Rhode Island. The natural harbor at the mouth of the bay became one of the top ports on the East Coast, competing with Boston and New York. Providence, at the head up the bay, was always a fraction of the size of Newport. When religious groups flocked to tolerant Rhode Island, they didn't go to Providence. Groups like the Sabbatarians, Jews, and Quakers all settled in Newport. And to give Newport an Old World cachet, many of the street and docks were named after streets and docks in London. Many clues suggest the man responsible for this "London = Newport" name game was William Brenton, who had in his possession a commission from King Charles I to be a Royal Surveyor in the New England colonies. When he died, he owned over 10,000 acres. The first settlers of Aquidneck Island succinctly expressed the guiding principle of their hearts and minds with their official motto: Amor Vincet Omnia Love Conquers All