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Rhode Island's founders : from settlement to statehood / Patrick T. Conley, photography by Terace Greene.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Conley, Patrick T.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pioneers--Rhode Island--Biography.
- Pioneers.
- Clergy--Rhode Island--Biography.
- Clergy.
- Revolutionaries--Rhode Island--Biography.
- Revolutionaries.
- Politicians--Rhode Island--Biography.
- Politicians.
- Soldiers--Rhode Island--Biography.
- Soldiers.
- History.
- Rhode Island--Biography.
- Rhode Island.
- Rhode Island--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Biography.
- Rhode Island--History--1775-1865--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 174 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Revised edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Charleston, SC : The History Press, 2021.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I THE PIONEERS: PRE-1700
- Giovanni da Verrazzano
- Chief Sachem Massasoit (Ousamequin)
- Chief Sachems Canonicus and Miantonomi
- Reverend William Blackstone
- Roger Williams
- Anne Hutchinson
- Governor William Coddington
- Dr. John Clarke
- Samuel Gorton
- Reverend Samuel Newman
- William Harris
- Richard Smith Sr.
- Reverend Gregory Dexter
- Mary Dyer
- Mayor and Captain Thomas Willett
- Chief Sachem Metacomet (King Philip)
- Chief Sachem Ninigret
- pt. II THE STABILIZERS: 1700
- 1763
- Judge Nathaniel Byfield
- Governor Samuel Cranston
- Bishop George Berkeley
- James and Ann (Smith) Franklin
- William Claggett Sr.
- Reverend John Callender
- Reverend Dr. James MacSparran
- Samuel Casey
- Peter Harrison
- John Goddard
- John Townsend
- pt. III THE REVOLUTIONARIES: 1763
- 1790
- Sarah Updike Goddard
- Silas Downer
- Solomon South wick
- Reverend Dr. Ezra Stiles
- Governor and Chief Justice Samuel Ward
- Speaker and Chief Justice Dr. Joshua Babcock
- Governor, Chief Justice and Signer Stephen Hopkins
- Captain Abraham Whipple
- Commodore Esek Hopkins
- Colonel Christopher Greene
- Major General Nathanael Greene
- Catharine Littlefield Greene
- Colonel William Barton
- Captain Stephen Olney
- Captain Silas Talbot
- Joseph Brown
- Moses Brown
- Reverend Samuel Hopkins
- Reverend James Manning
- John Carter
- Major General James Mitchell Varnum
- Signer and Congressman William Ellery
- Congressman Jonathan Hazard
- Congressman and Judge Henry Marchant
- Congressman and Judge Benjamin Bourne
- Senator William Bradford
- Senator Theodore Foster
- Captain Robert Gray.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Charles D. Dickey, Jr., Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781467150552
- 146715055X
- OCLC:
- 1252762945
- Publisher Number:
- 99989249181
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