...nd Warwick at Portsmouth, adopt the charter of 1643, choose John Coggeshall president of the colony, and give a tax of £ 100 to Roger Williams for obtaining the charter......May 19-21, 1647 Canonicus , sachem of the Narragansets, dies......June 4, 1647 William Coddington receives from the council of state in England a commission, signed by John Bradshaw, to govern Rhode Island and Connecticut ...