The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1834-11-26
MEMOIR OF RHODE-ISLAND.

John Sanford Randall Holden
George Lawton Edward Cayerly
Caleb Arnold James Greene
Latham Clarke Thomas Greene
The law requiring the deputies to be engaged,
was repealed by tlIis assembly. -Four Indians were
executed for crimes; having been tried and condemn
ed by a court martial.
At this assembly certain tract of land in the
Narragansett country, containing five thousand acres
was Incorporated into township by the name of
East Greenwich. -Four thousand five hundred acres
of which laid out i'll farms ofnnety acres each,
and five hundred acres i'll house lots Every grantee
of hundred acres, to have house lot of ten accrs
out of the five hundred reserved for town lots
Fifty persons named in the grant, to whom the
assembly assigned the land comprised in said town
ship the following conditions viz that each per-
mentioned i'll this present grant shall within one
year. after the publication thereof, make a settlement
on his house lot, by building a house fit and suita-
bic for habitation." If the grantee did not fulfil
this condition. the house lot, and also the ninety a.
ere lot, was forfeited to the colony. The terms of
these grants also provides that grantee shall sell
the said lot or lots, within twenty years, unless by
consent of the General Assembly, on condition of
forfeiture above.
We copy from Trumburs history ofConnccticut
Vol. Ist. page $40 the following Being the views
entertained by Connecticut as to their claim to the
Naraganset country. May 10Th 1917
"a committee was appointed by the assembly, to
settle all affairs of Government in the Narragan-
set country, and to report what places there were
there adapted to the purpose of planting new towns
As the Rhode-Isanders had deserted the country
in the war; and had done nothing in the defence of
it, and as the Connecticut volunteers had driven the
enemy entirely from that extensive tract the egis-
lature determined to plant and govern it, as part of
this colony.
For various reasons they viewed the act of his
majestys commissioners, determining that Rhode
Island and Narraganset should be province for
the king, as a mere nullity. Their commission gave
them no power to make new colonies. 1t required
that Colonel Nichols Should always be one of the
council, that any of its might be valid but he
was not present at that determination. Further
Colonel Nichols with two or three of his council
afterwards reversed that judgement.
In the same point of light they viewed the agree
ment with Mr.. Clark, as it was after Mr.. Winthrop
had obtained the Connecticut charter, and sent it to
the colony, at which time his agency was tcrmna-
ted Further, Enlargement was entirely alien from
the business of his agency, and without any instruc
tions or authority from the colony The agreement
with Mr. Clark considered as a nullity, in a.
mother point of light as the charter to Rhode Island
recognized and had reference to one aric,- of the
agreement only, and as Rhode Island had never sub
mitted to one ofthe other articles In direct contra
venton of them, they had invaded the propcrtv of
the settlers named in it, wantonly carried off the
productions Of their lands and fruits of their labor
driven off their cattle, forced the inhabitants from
their POSSESSIONS burned their fences and even pulled
down their houses. They bad claimed jurisdiction
over them, after they lad in the year 1863 chosen
to belong to Connecticut, and formerly put them
selves under the government cf that colony. They
had not regarded the agreement even with respect
to the boundaries but attempted to extend their linz
It's beyond what was expressed IN the charter Be
sides when his majesty had previously granted that
tract TO Connecticut there remained m law and rca-
son, no further right in him to that country. He
had nothing there further to grant. Therefore he
could grant nothing there to Rhode Island. Con-
necticut wei knew that rawcatuck never was called
Narragans-t river. aud iha the Narraganscus never
extended their claims 20 hT westward hii iat Paw