The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1833-03-27

hau Oy patent 10 uic Pi"So' Anu tiiat
il the inhabitants refused to submit to
them, then the advice Of said commit
tee should be taken, and if the same
was no, complied with, "ihat real dam
ages duly proved, be. levied by legal
force, though with ns much moderation
and tenderness as the case will permit"
This was the treatment that was shown
to Warwick; and hearing Of what Mr..
Coddington had done. they joined with
Providence in tending Mr.. Williams to
England. William Arnold hired mes
senger secretly to carry letter to Bos-
ton, to apprizs their rulers oft, hut they
were notified of it in better way: For
al a meeting of the commissioners of
the united colonies at New-Haven, Sep
tember 4, 1861, they received the follow
ing letter, viz
"May II please this honored commit
tee to take knowledge that we the in
habitants Of Shawomet alias Warwick,
having undergone divers expressions o.
wrongs, amounting to great damage
since we first possessed this place, being
forced thereby TO seek to that honora-
BILE state Of Old England for relief,
which did inevitably draw great charge
upon us, to the further impairing of our
estates, and finding favor for redress,
were willing to wave for that time lin
regard to the great troubles and en-
ployment that then lay on that state) all
other lesser wrongs we then underwent
so that we might be replaced in and up
on this our purchased possession, and
enjoy it peaceably for lime to come,
without disturbance or molestation by
those frem whom we had formerly suf-
fered. But since our gracious grant
from the honorable parliament in re-
placing Of us in this place, we have been
and daily are pressed with intolerabic
griovences. to the eating up Of our Ia
bors, and wasting Of our estates making
our lives, together with our wives and
children, bitter aud uncomfortable, in
somuch, that groaning under our bur-
thcns, we are constrained to make our
address 10 the honorable parliament and
state, once again, to make our just COM
plant against our causeless molestors,
who by themselves and their agents, are
the only cause Of this our reuttering Of
our distressed condition. May il pleuse
therefore this honored assembly, to take
notice Of this our solemn intelligence
(given unto you as the most public au-
thorised society appertaining unto, and
Instituted in the united colonies, whom
our complaints do concern) that we are
now preparing ourselves with all con-
venient speed for Old England, to make
our grievances known again to the state
which fall upon US by reason that the
order Of parliament concerning us hath
not been observed, nor tho enjoyment
Of our granted privileges permitted to US
that we are as i, were bought and sold
from one patent and jurisdiction TO an
other. In that we have been prohibi-
ted and charged to acauit this place
since the order Of parliament given out
and known to the contrary. In that we
have had warrants sent us, to summon
US to tho Massachusetts court, and off,
GERS employed amongs. US for that pur-
pose. In that these barbarous Indians
about us, with evil minded English mix
ed among US, under pretence Of some
former personal subjection to the gov
ernment of the Massachusetts counte-
nancing Of them, cease not to kill our
cattle, offer violence to our families, vii
ely authority of parliament vouohfaced
to us, jussifying their practices with ma
ny menaces and threatenings. a. being
under the protection Of the Massachu-
fsetts. In that We have been restrained
this seven or eight years past Of common
commerce in tho country, and that only
for matters Of conscience. In that our
estates formerly taken from ms remain
yet unrestorsd, with these additions
] thereunfn Thaaa and the Ika IN aL.