...Roger Williams dies, aged eighty-four, and is buried in Portsmouth......1683 Royal government established in Narraganset, with a court of records, civil and military officers, and Connecticut and Rhode Island excluded from jurisdiction......June, 1686 The Atherton claim to land purchased near Warwick from the Indians by Humphrey Atherton, John Winthrop, and others, in 1659, is thrown out by Governor ...