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Warren, Rhode Island
Map
Map of Bristol County highlighting Warren
Location in Bristol County
Map of Rhode Island highlighting Bristol County
Bristol County's location in the state of Rhode Island
Facts
Founded 1668
Seat Warren
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Address Warren Town Hall
514 Main Street
Warren, RI 02885
Website: townofwarren-ri.gov/

Town Information

Description

Warren was the site of the Indian village of Sowams on the peninsula called Pokanoket (the near parts now called Mount Hope Neck), and was first explored by Europeans in 1621, by Edward Winslow and Stephen Hopkins. By the next year, Plymouth Colony had established a trading post at Sowams. In 1623, Winslow and John Hampden saved the life of Wampanoag Sachem Massasoit with medicine, gaining an important native ally.

In 1636, Roger Williams, banished from Salem, fled to Sowams where he was sheltered by Massasoit until he settled at Providence.

Permanent English settlement east of the Indian village began. In 1653, Massasoit and his oldest son sold to certain Plymouth Colony settlers what is now Warren and parts of Barrington, Rhode Island; Swansea, Massachusetts; and Rehoboth, Massachusetts. After the death of Massasoit, relations between the Indians and the settlers became strained, leading to King Philip's War in 1675. The English settlement at Sowams was destroyed during the war, but rebuilt.

In 1668, the township was officially incorporated with the name Sowams; in 1691, the Plymouth Colony merged with the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Modern town borders of Warren in Bristol County, Rhode Island.

Warren was ceded to Rhode Island from Massachusetts in 1747. The town was named "Warren" after a British naval hero, Admiral Sir Peter Warren, after a victory at Louisburg in 1745. At the time of cession in 1747, Barrington, Rhode Island was unified with Warren, until it was separated again in 1770.

Warren was the original home of Brown University, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. The school registered its first students in 1765. Brown was the Baptist answer to Congregationalist Yale and Harvard, Presbyterian Princeton, and Episcopalian Penn and Columbia. At the time, it was the only one of these schools that welcomed students of all religious persuasions (following the example of Roger Williams, who founded Rhode Island in 1636 on the same principle).

Parent Towns

Populated Places

Includes Neighborhoods, Villages, Unincorporated Communities,
Districts, and Census-Designated Places:

Adjacent Towns

Town Records

In New England most original vital records of birth, marriage, and death can be found at the town clerk's office

Warren Town Clerk

Vital Records

Births

Marriages

Deaths

Divorce


For more resources see:

Town Reports

Resources

For more County and State resources see:

Biography

  • La Paroisse Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Warren, état du Rhode Island, 1877-1952 FS Catalog Collection
    First half of text in French; second half is English translation. Includes biographies of parish priests, professional people, nuns, outstanding parisioners, lists of parochial school students, members of the parish enlisted in the military, Franco-Americans in public office, censuses completed in 1888 and 1895, and memorials to their deceased parisioners.

Cemeteries

Barton Family

Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Warren #7, Long Lane and Barton Avenue

FindaGrave

  • Findagrave is an international database of cemetery interments. In some cases there are photographs and comments regarding the deceased's family. It is a collaborative project, meaning any volunteer may add names and photos. As of 2016 it contained over 150 million burial records and 75 million photos. [1]
  • Findagrave is an international database of cemetery interments. In some cases there are photographs and comments regarding the deceased's family. It is a collaborative project, meaning any volunteer may add names and photos. As of 2016 it contained over 150 million burial records and 75 million photos. [2]


Benjamin Barton Family

Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Warren #5, Barton Avenue

Brown Family

Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Warren #16, Long Lane

Butterworth

Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Warren #4, Long Lane

Captain Edward Mason Family

Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Warren #15, Market Street

Cole

Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Warren #12, Colonial Drive

Haile Family

Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Warren #2, Market Street

James Mason Family

Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Warren #6, Maple Road

Kickemuit

Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Warren #3, Serpentine Road

Later Handy Family

Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Warren #13, Adam Lane

North Burial Ground

Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Warren #1, North Main Street

Obadiah Bowen Family

Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Warren #14, School House Road and Market Street

Saint Alexander

Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Warren #8, Greenlawn Street, Off Vernon Avenue

Saint John the Baptist

(Saint Jean Baptiste) Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Warren #9, Vernon Street

Saint Mary of the Bay

Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Warren #10, Vernon Street

South Burial Ground

Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Warren #11, Sowamset Avenue

Census

1850

1888

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1895

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Centennial Celebrations, etc

Church Records

Historically, the largest religious groups in Rhode Island were the Congregational, Baptist, Roman Catholic, and Methodist churches. For general information about Vermont denominations, view the New Hampshire Church Records wiki page.

To see the churches in TOWN, visit.

Church records and the information they provide vary significantly depending on the denomination and the record keeper. They may contain information about members of the congregation, such as age, date of baptism, christening, or birth; marriage information and maiden names; and death date. The following are church records available online for the town of TOWN:

Baptist

  • A discourse delivered at the dedication of the new church edifice of the Baptist Church and Society in Warren, R.I.: May 8, 1845 FS Catalog Collection
  • The centennial discourse on the one hundredth anniversary of the First Baptist Church, Warren, R.I.: November 15, 1864 FS Catalog Collection

Episcopal

  • Historical discourse delivered in St. Mark's Church, Warren, R.I.: Sunday evening, November 10, 1878, being the fiftieth anniversary of the organization of the parish FS Catalog Collection The church closed the doors after last mass, 2 May 2010

Methodist

Roman Catholic

City Directories

Court Records

Gotoarrow-kelly.png Probate Records, Town Records and Vital Records

History

  • Gotoarrow-kelly.png Biography
  • Dedication of the Massasoit Memorial: at Warren, Rhode Island, October nineteenth, nineteen hundred and seven FS Catalog Collection
  • The history of Warren, R.I. from the earliest times: with particular notices of Massasoit and his family FS Catalog Collection

Land Records

The following are online land records for the town of Warren:

Land and Property

  • Mortgages 1752, 1755, 1786 FS Catalog Collection
  • Warren (R.I.) deed records (1744-1916) and indexes (1747-1982) --, 1744-1982 FS Catalog Collection
    Grantor and grantee index 1747-1895
    Deeds 1744-1902
    Warranties 1883-1916
    Deed Grantor index 1747-1982
    Deed Grantee index 1747-1982
    Deed records 1898-1910

Libraries and Historical Societies

Maps

This selection incudes town, county, state, and historical maps

Military

Some Records are Searchable by Town

Revolutionary War, 1775-1783

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Civil War, 1861-1865

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World War I, 1917-1918

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World War II, 1941-1945

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Revolutionary War

Newspapers

Naturalization and Citizenship

Other Town Records

In Rhode Island, most records are kept at the town level and generally began being kept at the founding of the town. These records may include the following:

  • Births
  • Marriages
  • Deaths
  • Burials
  • Cemetery records
  • Appointments
  • Earmarks
  • Estrays (stray animals)
  • Freemens' oaths (men eligible to vote)
  • Land records
  • Mortgages
  • Name changes
  • Care of the poor
  • School records
  • Surveys
  • Tax lists
  • Town meeting minutes
  • Voter registrations
  • Warning outs (of town)

The following are TOWN town records available online:

Probate

In Rhode Island, most probate records are kept at the town level. The following are online probate records for the town of Warren:

Taxation

Research Facilities

Archives

Libraries

Museums

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Societies

References

  1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Find_a_Grave
  2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Find_a_Grave
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