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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Deane, Charles, 1813-1889 (search)
Deane, Charles, 1813-1889 Historian; born in Biddeford, Me., Nov. 10, 1813; became a member of the chief historical societies of the country; author of Some notices of Samuel Gorton; First Plymouth patent; Bibliography of Governor Hutchinson's publications; Wingfield's discourse of Virginia; Smith's true relation; and editor of Bradford's history of Plymouth plantation, etc. He died in Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 13, 1889.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gorton, Samuel 1600-1677 (search)
Gorton, Samuel 1600-1677 Clergyman; born in England about 1600; was a clothier in London, and embarked for Boston in 1636, where he soon became entangled in teleological disputes and removed to Plymouth. There he preached such heterodox doctrines that he was banished as a heretic in the winter of 1637-38. With a few followed a settlement. The next year inferior sachems disputed his title to the land; and, calling upon Massachusetts to assist them, an armed force was sent to arrest Gorton and his followers, and a portion of them were taken to Boston and tried as damnable heretics. For a while they endured confinement and hard labor, in irons, and in 1644 they were banished from the colony. Gorton went to England and obtained from the Earl of Warwick an order that the clergyman and his followers should have peace at the settlement they had chosen. He called the place Warwick when he returned to it in 1648. There he preached on Sunday and performed civil service during th
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), James, Lewis George 1844- (search)
James, Lewis George 1844- Historian; born in Providence, R. I., Feb. 19, 1844; graduated at Providence High School; instructor in history in the Adelphia Academy, Brooklyn, in 1894-95. He is the author of Samuel Gorton, a forgotten founder of our liberties, etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), State of Rhode Island, (search)
the Indians the island of Aquiday or Aquitneck, and made settlements on the site of Newport and Portsmouth. A third settlement was formed at Warwick, on the mainland, in 1643, by a party of whom State seal of Rhode Island. John Greene and Samuel Gorton were leaders. The same year Williams went to England, and in 1644 brought back a charter which united the settlements at Providence and on Rhode Island under one government, called the Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Then the ciam Coddington April 28, 1639-47 Presidents under the patent Providence, Warwick, Portsmouth, and Newport John CoggeshallMay, 1647 William Coddington May, 1648 John SmithMay, 1649 Nicholas Easton May 1650 Providence and Warwick. Samuel Gorton Oct., 1651 John Smith May, 1652 Gregory Dexter May, 1653 Portsmouth and Newport John Sanford, SrMay. 1653 Four towns United Nicholas Easton May, 1654 Roger WilliamsSept., 1654 Benedict Arnold May, 1657 William BrentonMay, 1660
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Shawomet, War at (search)
Shawomet, War at Gorton, the restless disturber of the peace in New England, had been whipped from colony to colony, and had settled at Shawomet (afterwards Warwick), R. I., on land ceded to him ent, with the same result. Commissioners were appointed to go to Shawomet. They were warned by Gorton that if they should come to exercise force they would be met by force. We strictly charge you, oston. The truce was delusive. Before the messenger sent to Boston could return, the houses of Gorton's people were broken open and plundered. Even the women and children returning from the woods wed upon. The Bostonians besieged the Gortonians for several days. At length it was proposed to Gorton that he and his fellowdefenders should go to Boston, not as prisoners, but as free men and neighbors. As soon as the besiegers entered the house, Gorton and his friends were disarmed and marched off to Boston as prisoners. Their property was left behind, a prey to plundering Indians, and their
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts (search)
....Dec. 9, 1640 Trouble of the Massachusetts and Plymouth colonies with Samuel Gorton begins......1641 Governor Bellingham, of Massachusetts, selects his brid3,000; money scarce, and bullets for a time pass for farthings......1643 Samuel Gorton is banished for heresy and disrespect to the magistrates, and purchases a tcalled Shawomet of the Narragansets, and begins a settlement there......1643 Gorton and his companions, summoned to Boston, refusing, a detachment of forty men is sent to arrest them; Gorton and his followers, after an unsuccessful attempt to defend themselves, are taken to Boston and tried. Gorton and seven others are found gGorton and seven others are found guilty......November, 1643 They are ordered, at the next court, to depart out of the jurisdiction within fourteen days, and not to return to Massachusetts or Shawom the governor, and over fifty others in Massachusetts......June 14, 1647 Samuel Gorton, after the second banishment from Massachusetts, 1644, proceeds to England
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Rhode Island, (search)
asserts Rhode Island to be a democracy, saving only the right of the King, and grants freedom of religious opinions......March, 1641 Four landholders, three of them original proprietors, at Pawtuxet dissatisfied with the opposition of one Samuel Gorton and his partisans to the government, offer themselves and their lands to Massachusetts, and are received by the General Court......Sept. 8, 1642 Samuel Gorton and his companions remove to Shawomet, where they had purchased lands from the ISamuel Gorton and his companions remove to Shawomet, where they had purchased lands from the Indians, and commence the settlement of Warwick......Jan. 12, 1643 Roger Williams is sent to England as agent for Providence, Aquedneck, and Warwick, to secure a charter from the King......1643 Patent granted by Robert, Earl of Warwick, governor-in-chief and lord high admiral, and commissioners, to planters of the towns of Providence, Portsmouth, and Newport, for incorporation of Providence Plantations in Narraganset Bay......March 14, 1643 General Court changes the name of Aquedneck to