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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Rhode Island, (search)
and held at Portsmouth......Nov. 12, 1638 Aquedneck purchased from the Indians by William Coddington and his friends ......Nov. 22, 1639 First Baptist Church in America founded in Providence......1639 John Clarke and several proprietors of Aquedneck remove to the southern part of the island and found Newport......1639 First Baptist Church in Newport founded......1639 Form of government, twelve articles of agreement, framed and adopted by the inhabitants of Providence......July 27, 1640 Rev. Robert Lenthel called by vote to open a public school in Newport......1640 General Assembly 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......Se