The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1834-12-03

i Portsmouth. ITa7rick.
VIM. WoodaIl James Greene
Robert Hodgson Edmund Calycrly
Francis Brayton Benjamin Barton
Latham Clarke Benz. Gorton
East Grccn1cich.
John Spencer Samuel Bennett
The Island of Canonicut was incorporated a
township by the name of jamestown.
A tax of G3O0 was assessed on all the towns in
the colony which was apportioned as follows
Newport, el36; Providence, GlO; Portsmouth,
COS; Warwick, eS; Westerly, f2; New Shore
ham, e29; Kingston, GIG; East Greenwich, CO :;
jamestown, f29; after which Kingstown was ex-
cused for one half ofthcir tax.
BY the above apPortionment, we are enabled in
some degree to Judge of the effect of the Indian war
upon the respective towns and we are not little
surprised to find the town of Westerly taxed only
G2. This circumstance induces us to believe that
the damage done to Westerly by the indian war
was much more considerable than we before apprc-
hcndcd.
| Voted, that whereas our late IIonorcd Governor
VIM. Coddingon, Esq. is deceased. This assembly
do forthwith proceed to the election ofanother i'll his
room or stead"
"Major John Cranston is chosen Governor and
engaged in open court"
The first assistant, Mr. James Barker, was APP
pointed Deputy Governor in the room of John Gran
ston, who had been raisedfrom Deputy Governor, to
Governor; and the vacancy in the house filled.
Biogrophy of Goc. VIM. Coddmgton.
| He came from Lincolnshire in England, and en-
barked for America with Governor Hutchinson in
1890, having been appointed in England, the year
before, of the assistants of the Massachusetts
Colony. In 1851 he returned to England in the
ship Lyon and brought out his family to Boston.
During his residence in Boston he was one of the
first merchants there, and built the first brick house
in that towu. lie became dissatisfied with the Ec-
cesastical government in Massachusetts, and in
1898 associated himself with II others who purchas-
ed Rhode Island of the natives Mr. Coddington
came to AcquidnecE (now Rhode Island) to look for
a place of settlement about the time of the Pcquod
war; which shows an intention Of planting u new
colony, some time before the plan was seriously un-
dcra>cn He, with seventeen Others his associates
incorporated themselves on the 9TH day of March,
l637-S, and elected him their chief magistrate or
Judge. He purchased the Island in his own name,
pl 'ii' IoIlAN, Iit uttN Ol WHICH, - ul-
ted > 2ith of March, IG37-S. The actual settlement
took place early in May, and the first public meet
inc was held May l3, 1893, at Portsmouth. He
held the chief magisracy ofthc Island until it was
incorporated with Providence and Warwick in IGI7
lie removed from Portsmouth with eight others of
the proprietors in l639 and settled the town of New
port and was the first man engaged in commerce
in that town. In 1861 hc was appointed, by the SUI
prcmc authority in England as Governor of the Is
lands III the Narragansct Bay, which agaiu separ-
ated the Island of Rhodc-Island from the towns on
the main for about three years. After which he lv-
ed retired from public life for some time but in the
years 1871, 1915 and 1913 he was Governor of the
colony, and was in that place to the time ofs DEATH
which took place Nov. Ist lG7~. His estate must
have been considerable for in addition to his large
landed property in this country lac had also plan
tation in Barbados. lie was "A man Of learning
and contributed more than perhaps, any other to es-
tabshing the colony Of Rhodc-Island and laying
the foundation Of CIV land religious liberty in Amer
lea.