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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.ancestry.com/search/collections/9079/ '''1582-1932''' - Rhode Island, Wills and Probate Records] - index and images at Ancestry.com ($) | *[https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/9079/ '''1582-1932''' - Rhode Island, Wills and Probate Records] - index and images at Ancestry.com ($) | ||
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/838527?availability=Family%20History%20Library '''1638-1644''' - Records of Rhode Island] - images only | *[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/838527?availability=Family%20History%20Library '''1638-1644''' - Records of Rhode Island] - images only | ||
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<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), 183, 192. [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39622039 WorldCat (Other Libraries)]; {{FHL|822639|item|disp=FHL book 929.11812 D26 1998}}</ref> | <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), 183, 192. [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39622039 WorldCat (Other Libraries)]; {{FHL|822639|item|disp=FHL book 929.11812 D26 1998}}</ref> | ||
==Resources== | ==Resources== | ||
=== Church Records === | |||
* [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). | |||
===Court Records=== | ===Court Records=== | ||
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/32867?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''Records of the Colony of Rhode Island and providence Plantations in New England 1636-1792, Printed by Order of the Legislature''] by John R. Bartlett. (Providence: A.C. Green, 1856-1865). | |||
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/30198?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''Rhode Island Court Records: Records of The Court of Trials of The Colony of Providence Plantations, 1647-1670'']. 2 Vols. (Providence: Rhode Island Historical Society, 1920-1922). | *[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/30198?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''Rhode Island Court Records: Records of The Court of Trials of The Colony of Providence Plantations, 1647-1670'']. 2 Vols. (Providence: Rhode Island Historical Society, 1920-1922). | ||
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/32867?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''Records of the Vice-Admiralty Court of Rhode Island: 1716-1752'']. (1936. Reprint. Millwood, NY: Kraus Reprint, 1975). | *[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/32867?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''Records of the Vice-Admiralty Court of Rhode Island: 1716-1752'']. (1936. Reprint. Millwood, NY: Kraus Reprint, 1975). | ||
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=== Early Families and Histories === | |||
* [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/50486?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''Colonial Rhode Island: A History''] by Sydney V. James. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975). | |||
* [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/43609?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''Concerning the French Settlements and French Settlers in the Colony of Rhode Island''] by Elisha R. Potter. (1879. Reprint. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1968). | |||
* [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1163274?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''Dutch Settlers Society Collections'']. 7 Vols. (Albany: The Society, 1927-1945). | |||
* [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/471084?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''Genealogies of Rhode Island Families: From the New England Historical and Genealogical Register'']. 2 Vols. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1989). | |||
* [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/429266?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''Genealogies of Rhode Island Families: From Rhode Island Periodicals'']. 2 Vols. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co,. 1983). | |||
* [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/328872?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island: Comprising Three Generations of Settlers Who Came Before 1690''] by John Osborne Austin. (1887. Reprint. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1969). | |||
* [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/407800?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''Rhode Island Biographical and Genealogical Sketch Index''] by J. Carlyle Parker. (Turlock, CA: Marietta Publishing Co., 1991). | |||
* [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/383612?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''Rhode Island Sources for Family Historians and Genealogists''] by Kip Sperry. (Logan, UT: Everton Publishers, 1986). | |||
* [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/275893?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''Settlers of Aquidneck , and Liberty of Conscience''] by Henry E. Turner. (Newport: Newport Historical Publishing Co., 1880). | |||
===Other=== | ===Other=== | ||
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/ | *[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/4956?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''A list of Rhode Island soldiers and sailors in King George's war : 1740-1748''] by Howard M. Chapin. (Providence, Rhode Island : Rhode Island Historical Society, 1920). | ||
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1779627?availability=San%20Jose%20California%20Family%20History%20Center ''Census of the Inhabitants of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations 1774''] by John R. Bartlett. (1858. Reprint. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1969). | *[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1779627?availability=San%20Jose%20California%20Family%20History%20Center ''Census of the Inhabitants of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations 1774''] by John R. Bartlett. (1858. Reprint. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1969). | ||
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/562727 ''Commerce of Rhode Island: 1726-1800'']. 2 Vols. (Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1914-1915). | *[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/562727 ''Commerce of Rhode Island: 1726-1800'']. 2 Vols. (Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1914-1915). | ||
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/ | *[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). | ||
*''The First 100 Years of the Church of England in Rhode Island'' by Edgar L. Pennington. (Hartford: Church Missions Publishing, 1935) | |||
*[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/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). | |||
*''The First 100 Years of the Church of England in Rhode Island'' by Edgar L. Pennington. (Hartford: Church Missions Publishing, 1935) | |||
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*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/774398?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''Runaways, Deserters, and Notorious Villains from Rhode Island Newspapers''] by Maureen Alice Taylor. Vol. 1. ''The Providence Gazette, 1762 1800'' (Camden, ME: Picton Press, 1995). | *[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/774398?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''Runaways, Deserters, and Notorious Villains from Rhode Island Newspapers''] by Maureen Alice Taylor. Vol. 1. ''The Providence Gazette, 1762 1800'' (Camden, ME: Picton Press, 1995). | ||
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/ | *[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). | ||
== References == | ==References== | ||
[[Category:Rhode Island,_United_States]] | [[Category:Rhode Island,_United_States]] | ||
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