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s Cranston as governor, who dies......March 12, 1680 Custom-house established at Newport to enforce the navigation acts published by the beat of drums......April 1, 1681 Assembly first meets at Providence under new charter......Oct. 26, 1681 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 Andros; but other lands are granted the company by the royal council......1687 Gov. Sir Edmund Andros, stopping at Newport for the charter of Rhode Island, is foiled by Governor Clarke, who sends the charter to his brother to be hidden. Andros destroys the seal of the colony and departs......November, 1687 Learning of the accession