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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Rhode Island, (search)
idence and Newport. Roger Williams, banished from Plymouth colony, with five companies settles at a spot which he calls Providence......June, 1636 Aquedneck Island settled by eighteen proprietors at Portsmouth, now New Town, first called Pocasset......1637 Canonicus and his nephew Miantinomo, sachems of the Narragansets, deed to Roger Williams all lands between the Pawtucket and Pawtuxet rivers......March 24, 1638 Roger Williams and Governor Winthrop make a joint purchase of Prudence Island......Nov. 10, 1638 First general training or militia muster in Rhode Island 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 art