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==Online Records== | ==Online Records== | ||
''Many records from the colonial era in New England were kept at the town or county level. Search the catalog at the town or county level to locate those records.'' | ''Many records from the colonial era in New England were kept at the town or county level. Search the catalog at the town or county level to locate those records.'' | ||
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/365954?availability=Family%20History%20Library '''1730-1765''' - Military papers of Rhode Island (colonial period), 1730-1765] - images only ++ | |||
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/280350?availability=Family%20History%20Library '''1731-1792''' - Military papers of Rhode Island (colonial and Revolutionary War periods), 1731-1792] - images only ++ | |||
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/274567?availability=Family%20History%20Library '''1741-1746''' - Rhode Island and Massachusetts boundary commission, 1741-1746, 1846-1848 = : Rhode Island and Massachusetts boundary commission] - images only ++ | |||
==History== | ==History== | ||
Rhode Island was founded in 1636 by Roger Williams and other European settlers who were banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Williams negotiated with the Native Americans living there for land and named the place Providence Plantations. In 1644 the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations was created and consisted of Providence, Portsouth, and Newport. Warwick joined in 1647. Rhode Island became part of the Dominion of New England in 1686, but regained its independence in 1688.<ref>Christina K. Schaefer, ''Genealogical encyclopedia of the colonial Americas : a complete digest of the records of all the countries of the Western Hemisphere'' (Baltimore, Maryland : Genealogical Publishing Company, c1998), 313. [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39622039 WorldCat (Other Libraries)]; {{FHL|822639|item|disp=FHL book 929.11812 D26 1998}}</ref><ref>Wikipedia contributors, "Rhode Island," in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia'', https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhode_Island, accessed 7 January 2020.</ref> | Rhode Island was founded in 1636 by Roger Williams and other European settlers who were banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Williams negotiated with the Native Americans living there for land and named the place Providence Plantations. In 1644 the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations was created and consisted of Providence, Portsouth, and Newport. Warwick joined in 1647. Rhode Island became part of the Dominion of New England in 1686, but regained its independence in 1688.<ref>Christina K. Schaefer, ''Genealogical encyclopedia of the colonial Americas : a complete digest of the records of all the countries of the Western Hemisphere'' (Baltimore, Maryland : Genealogical Publishing Company, c1998), 313. [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39622039 WorldCat (Other Libraries)]; {{FHL|822639|item|disp=FHL book 929.11812 D26 1998}}</ref><ref>Wikipedia contributors, "Rhode Island," in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia'', https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhode_Island, accessed 7 January 2020.</ref> | ||
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===Other=== | ===Other=== | ||
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/299469?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''Supplement to the Rhode Island colonial records comprising a list of the freemen admitted from May 1747 to May 1754] by Sidney S. Rider. (Providence, R.I. : Sidney S. Rider, 1875). | |||
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/172035?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''Rhode Island in the colonial wars; a list of Rhode Island soldiers & sailors in the old French & Indian War, 1755-1762'' Howard M. Chapin. (Providence, Rhode Island : Rhode Island Historical Society, 1918). | |||
*[https://archive.org/details/peircescoloniall00peir_0/page/n6/mode/2up ''Peirce's colonial lists : civil, military and professional lists of Plymouth and Rhode Island colonies, comprising colonial, county and town officers, clergymen, physicians and lawyers ; with extracts from colonial laws defining their duties. 1621-1700'' by Ebenezer W. Peirce. (Boston, MA: A. Williams & Co.; David Clapp & Son, 1881). | |||
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/2742588 ''The correspondence of the colonial governors of Rhode Island, 1723-1775'' published by the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations; edited by Gertrude Selwyn Kimball. 2 Vols. (Boston: National Society of the Colonial Dames of America, 1902-1903). | |||
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/268945?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''The Records of American Baptists in Rhode Island and Related Organizations''] by American Baptist Historical Society. (Rochester, NY: American Baptist Historical Society, 1982(. | *[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/268945?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''The Records of American Baptists in Rhode Island and Related Organizations''] by American Baptist Historical Society. (Rochester, NY: American Baptist Historical Society, 1982(. | ||
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/2737271 ''History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations: 1636-1790''] by Samuel Greene Arnold. 2 Vols. (1859. Reprint. Spartanburg, SC: The Reprint Co., 1970). | *[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/2737271 ''History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations: 1636-1790''] by Samuel Greene Arnold. 2 Vols. (1859. Reprint. Spartanburg, SC: The Reprint Co., 1970). | ||