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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 43 1 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition. 10 0 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 6 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Clarke, or Clerke, Jeremy (search)
Clarke, or Clerke, Jeremy One of the settlers of Newport, R. I., in 1639; became constable of the new plantation in 1640, and treasurer in 1647. He was elected as an assistant to the president in 1648, and when the president-elect, William Coddington, failed to enter upon his office and to answer certain accusations brought against him, Clarke, who was a republican, was chosen by the assembly as president-regent, and served as such till the following May.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Coddington, William 1601- (search)
Coddington, William 1601- Founder of Rhode Island; born in Lincolnshire, England, in 1601; came to America in 1630 as a magistrate of Massachusetts appointed by the crown. He was a prosperous merchant in Boston, but, taking the part of Anne Hutchinson (q. v.), he was so persecuted that, with eighteen others, he removed to the island of Aquidneck (now Rhode Island), where, on the organization of a government, he was appointed judge, or chief ruler. In March, 1640, Coddington was elected ge crown. He was a prosperous merchant in Boston, but, taking the part of Anne Hutchinson (q. v.), he was so persecuted that, with eighteen others, he removed to the island of Aquidneck (now Rhode Island), where, on the organization of a government, he was appointed judge, or chief ruler. In March, 1640, Coddington was elected governor, and held the office seven years. He went to England in 1651, and in 1674-75 he was again governor. He adopted the tenets of the Quakers. He died Nov. 1, 1678.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Miantonomoh, 1632- (search)
Island: nephew of Canonicus and Ninegret (qq. v.). As early as 1632 he visited Boston with his wife and stayed two nights. He went to church with the English. Governor Winthrop took Miantonomoh and his attendants to his home and made much of them. In 1637 he assisted the English in the war with the Pequod Indians (q. v.). At the beginning of 1638 he succeeded his uncle, Canonicus, as sachem or king of the Narragansets; and in March he granted lands on the island of Rhode Island to William Coddington and others to make a settlement. Entering into an agreement with Uncas, sachem of the Mohegans, not to make war upon each other without first appealing to the English, he fell under the suspicions of the latter, and was cited to appear before the governor and council at Boston in 1642. Nothing being found against him, he was dismissed with honor. It was the policy of the English to foment a rivalry between the Mohegans and Narragansets, and Uncas was induced to insult and injure Mia
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Quakers. (search)
of them who did so disgusted Roger Williams that he tried to argue them out of the colony. In September, 1656, the authorities of Massachusetts addressed to President Arnold, of Rhode Island, an urgent letter, protesting against the toleration of Quakers allowed there, and intimating that, unless it was discontinued, it would be resented by total non-intercourse. There was then very little sympathy felt for the Quakers in Rhode Island, but the authorities refused to persecute them, and Coddington and others afterwards joined them. Governor Stuyvesant was a strict churchman, and guarded, as far as possible, the purity of the ritual and doctrines of the Reformed Dutch Church in Persecuting a Quaker. New Netherland. He compelled the Lutherans to conform, and did not allow other sects to take root there. In 1657 a ship arrived at New Amsterdam, having on board several of the accursed sect called Quakers. They had been banished from Boston, and were on their way from Barbadoes
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Quincy, Edmund -1635 (search)
Quincy, Edmund -1635 Born in Wigsthorpe, England, 1602; emigrated to Massachusetts in 1628; several thousand acres of land in Mount Wollaston plantation were granted to Edmund Quincy and William Coddington in 1635. Upon this tract the town of Quincy was laid out. He died in Mount Wollaston, Mass., Dec. 9, 1635.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), State of Rhode Island, (search)
inistered by means of town-meetings. In 1638 William Coddington and others, driven from Massachusetts by perses were burned and the people Residence of Governor Coddington. murdered. Providence was laid in ashes. Th, in vol. IX. governors. Portsmouth. William CoddingtonMarch 7, 1638 William Hutchinson, April 30, 1639 William Coddington March 12, 1640 Newport. William Coddington April 28, 1639-47 Presidents under tWilliam Coddington April 28, 1639-47 Presidents under the patent Providence, Warwick, Portsmouth, and Newport John CoggeshallMay, 1647 William Coddington May, 1William Coddington May, 1648 John SmithMay, 1649 Nicholas Easton May 1650 Providence and Warwick. Samuel Gorton Oct., 1651 John ict Arnold May 1669 Nicholas EastonMay 1672 William CoddingtonMay 1674 Walter Clarke May 1676 Benedict ArnoldMay 1677 William Coddington Aug. 28, 1678 John Cranston Nov. 1678 Peleg Sandford March 16, 1680 WilliamWilliam Coddington, Jr. May, 1683 Henry BullMay 1685 Walter Clarke May 1686 Henry Bull Feb. 27, 1690 John Easton M
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Rhode Island, (search)
.....Nov. 12, 1638 Aquedneck purchased from the Indians by William Coddington and his friends ......Nov. 22, 1639 First Baptist Church ionicus, sachem of the Narragansets, dies......June 4, 1647 William Coddington receives from the council of state in England a commission, shn Clarke, agent of Portsmouth and Newport, to obtain a repeal of Coddington's commission, sail for England......October, 1651 Island towns submit to Coddington, but the mainland towns, in legislative session, elect John Smith president, and appoint other officers. They enact thaton as a Quaker), arrives from England with news of the repeal of Coddington's power......Feb. 18, 1653 Assembly of island towns, Portsmouternor Benedict Arnold dies June 20, 1678, and is succeeded by William Coddington......Aug. 28, 1678 Governor Coddington dies Nov. 1, 1678, Governor Coddington dies Nov. 1, 1678, and is succeeded by deputy-governor John Cranston......Nov. 15, 1678 Maj. Peleg Sandford succeeds Cranston as governor, who dies......Marc
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 2: civil History. (search)
ber, we grew to this resolution, to bind all the assistants Winthrop was then Governor, and Dudley Deputy Governor; the Assistants were Sir Richard Saltonstall, John Endicott, Increase Nowell, William Pynchon, Thomas Sharp, Roger Ludlow, William Coddington, and Simon Bradstreet. (Mr. Endicott and Mr. Sharpe excepted, which last purposeth to return by the next ship into England), to build houses at a place a mile east from Watertown, near Charles River, the next spring, and to winter there thed for traffic, in the open air, between the inhabitants and such as brought commodities for sale. but he went to England in the spring of 1631, and did not return. Nowell remained at Charlestown; Pynchon, at Roxbury; Ludlow, at Dorchester; and Coddington, at Boston. Endicott and Sharpe were originally free from engagement. Dr. Holmes says, the Deputy Governor (Dudley), Secretary Bradstreet, and other principal gentlemen, in the spring of 1631, commenced the execution of the plan. Coll. Mas
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 4: civil History. (search)
in he raised an ill report of this country, did desire respite till the next day to consider of his answer, he hath now delivered in this before written, which, upon his free submission and acknowledgement of his error, the Court hath accepted for satisfaction, and thereupon pardoned his said offence, and given order that it shall be recorded, and such as desire copies thereof may have the same. John Haynes, Governor, Rich: Bellingham, John Winthrop, Tho: Dudley, John Humfry, Willm. Coddington, Willm. Pinchon, Atterton Houghe, Increase Nowell, Simon Bradstreete.Mass. Rec., i. 358-360. This Mr. Pratt was a physician in the New Town, or Cambridge, for several years. He and his wife were drowned near the coast of Spain in December, 1646, as related by Winthrop. Savage's Winthrop, II. 239. He was not the only dissatisfied person, though less cautious than others in expressing his feelings. As early as May, 1634, this spirit of dissatisfaction became so general among the
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 9: (search)
pleasant springs, safe pastures and land that promised rich cornfields and fruitful gardens, attracted among others William Coddington of Boston in England, who, in friendly relations with William Blackstone, built the fist good house there, even befresisted every form of despotism over the mind. To them the clergy of Massachusetts were the ushers of persecution, Coddington, in Besse, II. 267. popish factors, Welde's Rise, Reign, and Ruin who had not imbibed the true doctrines of Christiaer Records, in Farmer's Belknap. 432 The larger number of the friends of Anne Hutchinson, led by John Clarke and William Coddington, proceeded to the south, designing to make a plantation on Long Island, or near Delaware Bay. But Roger Williams wsal consent of Mar. 7. every inhabitant: the forms of the administration were borrowed from the examples of the Jews. Coddington was elected judge in the new Israel; and Nov 11 three elders were soon chosen as his assistants. The colony rested on
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