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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Agreement of the people, (search)
n Westminster, or such other place as, by the foregoing Representative, or the Council of State in the interval, shall be, from time to time, appointed and published to the people, at the least twenty days before the time of election: and to continue their sessions there, or elsewhere, until the second Thursday in December following, unless they shall adjourn or dissolve themselves sooner; but not to continue longer. The election of the first Representative to be on the first Thursday in May, 1649; and that, and all future elections, to be according to the rules prescribed for the same purpose in this Agreement, viz. 1. That the electors in every division shall be natives or denizens of England; not persons receiving alms, but such as are assessed ordinarily towards the relief of the poor; no servants to, and receiving wages from, any particular person; and in all elections, except for the Universities, they shall be men of twenty-one years of age, or upwards, and housekeepers, dwe
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), State of Rhode Island, (search)
ulation of only 175,000, furnished to the National army 23.711 soldiers. Population in 1890, 345,506; 1900, 428,556. See United States, Rhode Island, in vol. IX. governors. Portsmouth. William CoddingtonMarch 7, 1638 William Hutchinson, April 30, 1639 William Coddington March 12, 1640 Newport. William Coddington April 28, 1639-47 Presidents under the patent Providence, Warwick, Portsmouth, and Newport John CoggeshallMay, 1647 William Coddington May, 1648 John SmithMay, 1649 Nicholas Easton May 1650 Providence and Warwick. Samuel Gorton Oct., 1651 John Smith May, 1652 Gregory Dexter May, 1653 Portsmouth and Newport John Sanford, SrMay. 1653 Four towns United Nicholas Easton May, 1654 Roger WilliamsSept., 1654 Benedict Arnold May, 1657 William BrentonMay, 1660 Benedict Arnold May. 1662 Governors under Royal charter. Benedict Arnold Nov., 1663 William Brenton May, 1666 Benedict Arnold May 1669 Nicholas EastonMay 1672 William Coddingto