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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).
*[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).
 
=== 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/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://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://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/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/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/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/1163274?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''Dutch Settlers Society Collections'']. 7 Vols. (Albany: The Society, 1927-1945).
*[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/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).
*''The First 100 Years of the Church of England in Rhode Island'' by Edgar L. Pennington. (Hartford: Church Missions Publishing, 1935)
*[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://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/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/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://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/407800?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''Rhode Island Biographical and Genealogical Sketch Index''] by J. Carlyle Parker. (Turlock, CA: Marietta Publishing CO., 1991).
*''The First 100 Years of the Church of England in Rhode Island'' by Edgar L. Pennington. (Hartford: Church Missions Publishing, 1935).
*[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/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/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/275893?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''Settlers of Aquidneck , and Liberty of Conscience''] by Henry E. Turner. (Newport: Newport Historical Publishing Co., 1880).
*[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==


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