Download or read book Graveyards of North Kingstown Rhode Island written by Althea H. McAleer and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Elm Grove Cemetery Inscriptions North Kingstown Rhode Island written by Althea H. McAleer and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book South Kingstown Rhode Island Historical Cemeteries written by John E. Sterling and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cemeteries in South Kingstown Rhode Island written by and published by . This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Elm Grove Cemetery Inscriptions North Kingstown Rhode Island written by Althea H. McAleer and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Some Descendants of John Thomas of Jamestown Rhode Island written by Hollis A. Thomas, MD and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-01-24 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1636, Roger Williams, recently banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony because of his religious beliefs, established a settlement at the head of Narragansett Bay that he named “Providence.” This small colony soon became a sanctuary for those seeking to escape religious persecution. Within a few years, a royal land patent and charter resulted in the formation of the “Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations,” which incorporated Williams’ original settlement and espoused his tenets of freedom of religion and separation of church and state. During the ensuing decades, thousands of Baptists, Quakers, Jews, and Huguenots relocated to Rhode Island from other New England colonies, the British Islands, and Europe in search of religious freedom. One such individual, John Thomas, an immigrant from Wales, made significant contributions to early settlements at Jamestown on Conanicut Island and at Wickford on the nearby mainland of Rhode Island. He was the first town constable of Jamestown in 1679, and later owned hundreds of acres of land in the towns of North and South Kingstown. This fully indexed work traces and sketches the lives of his descendants, many of whom were at the forefront of the great American westward migration, and represents the most comprehensive compilation of them to date. It is the result of twenty years of extensive research and includes detailed information from military pension archives, will and estate records, agricultural data, county histories, and migration patterns that far exceeds the standard for genealogical works of this scope and magnitude. It is important for us to remember those who helped shape our nation. This work provides valuable information for those who are interested in this family and its evolution in America.
Download or read book Exeter Rhode Island written by John E. Sterling and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rhode Island s Civil War Dead written by Robert Grandchamp and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-11-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhode Island sent 23,236 men to fight in the Civil War. They served in eight infantry regiments, three heavy artillery regiments, three regiments and one battalion of cavalry, a company of hospital guards and 10 batteries of light artillery. Hundreds more served in the U.S. Army, Navy and Marine Corps. Rhode Islanders participated in nearly every major battle of the war, firing the first volleys at Bull Run, and some of the last at Appomattox. How many died in the Civil War is a question that has long eluded historians. Drawing on a 20-year study of regimental histories, pension files, letters, diaries, and visits to every cemetery in the state, award-winning Civil War historian Robert Grandchamp documents 2,217 Rhode Islanders who died as a direct result of military service. Each regiment is identified, followed by the name, rank and place of residence for each soldier, the details of their deaths and, where known, their final resting places.
Download or read book American Slavers written by Sean M. Kelley and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-30 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first telling of the unknown story of America's two-hundred-year history as a slave-trading nation A total of 305,000 enslaved Africans arrived in the New World aboard American vessels over a span of two hundred years as American merchants and mariners sailed to Africa and to the Caribbean to acquire and sell captives. Using exhaustive archival research, including many collections that have never been used before, historian Sean M. Kelley argues that slave trading needs to be seen as integral to the larger story of American slavery. Engaging with both African and American history and addressing the trade over time, Kelley examines the experience of captivity, drawing on more than a hundred African narratives to offer a portrait of enslavement in the regions of Africa frequented by American ships. Kelley also provides a social history of the two American ports where slave trading was most intensive, Newport and Bristol, Rhode Island. In telling this tragic, brutal, and largely unknown story, Kelley corrects many misconceptions while leaving no doubt that Americans were a nation of slave traders.
Download or read book Inventing New England s Slave Paradise written by Robert K. Fitts and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1998 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many 19th and 20th century historians have argued that Northern slavery was mild and that master/slave relations were relatively harmonious. Yet, Northern slavery, like Southern, was characterized by the conflict between the masters' desire to control their slaves and the slaves' resistance to this domination. For a variety of political, social, and intellectual reasons, 19th and 20th century historians ignored this inherent conflict in discussions of Northern slavery. Fitts' research focuses on how and why historians sanitized the history of slavery in Narragansett, Rhode Island, and then shows the inadequacy of these interpretations by examining several of the planters' and slaves' conflicting strategies of control and resistance. Topics include how planters used physical punishment, legislation, and the threat of sale in an attempt to control their slaves, and how slaves resisted through violence, running away, and non-violent crime. Fitts also examines the plantation landscape as a site of symbolic contestation and includes a chapter on slave names. (Ph.D. dissertation, Brown University, 1995; revised with new preface)
Download or read book GRAVE UNDERTAKINGS written by RUBERTONE PATRICIA E and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 2001-03-17 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By weaving textual and archaeological evidence with community memory, Rubertone challenges the canonical account of Roger Williams' "A Key Into the Language of America" (1643). She imagines a more complicated and dynamic history of Native cultural survival and persistence in New England.
Download or read book Charlestown Rhode Island Historical Cemeteries written by Lorraine Tarket Arruda and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Tillinghasts in America written by Wayne G. Tillinghast and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pardon Tillinghast, son of Pardon Tillinghast and Sarah Browne, was born in about 1622 in Severn Cliffs, Sussex, England. He married (Sarah?) Butterworth and they had three children. He married Lydia Taber and they had nine children. He died 29 January 1717/18 in Providence, Rhode Island. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Rhode Island and New York.
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Download or read book The Diary of Capt Samuel Tillinghast of Warwick Rhode Island 1757 1766 written by Samuel Tillinghast and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rules and Regulations of the State Board of Registration in Embalming List of Registered Embalmers and Rules for Transportation of the Dead written by Rhode Island. State Board of Registration in Embalming and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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