Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Samuel Gorton” in entry state-of-rhode-island of Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History:

...sland 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 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 Isla...
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