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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Rhode Island, (search)
prietors 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......Sept. 8, 1642 Samuel 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,