The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1837-02-22
WIN. GREENE, Governor.
JOSEPH WHIPPLE, Dep. G

were chosen:
WIN. GREENE, Governor.
JOSEPH WHIPPLE, Dep. Gov.
Assistants.
John Tillinghast, Jonathan Nichols,
Nicholas Cooke, Jabez Bowen,
Stephen BrowneIl, Robert Lawton,
James Arnold, William Richmond,
Daniel CoggeshaI, Jeffery Watson.
Thomas Ward, Secretary.
Daniel Updike. Attorney.
Thomas Richardson, Treasurer.
The Deputies from Newport were, Ma
thaniel Coggeshall, Edward Scott, Thom-
as Cranslon, Peter Bours and Job Bennet
1853.
The Assembly met in Newport on Tues
day the lst day of May, and on the next
day were chosen:
WIN. GREENE, Governor
JOSEPH WIIIPPLE, Dep. Coy.
assistants.
John Tillinghast, Jonathan Nichols,
Nicholas Cooke, Jabez Brown,
Stephen BrownelI, Robert Lawton,
Jeremiah Lippit, William Richmond,
Daniel CoggeshalI, Jeffrey Watson.
Thomas Ward, Secretary.
Daniel Updike, Attorney General.
Thomas Richardson, IRE asurer.
The Deputies from Newport were, Ed
Job Bennett, William Mumford and Nicho-
las Easton.
The Light House on Beaver Tail, which
was of wood, was burned down about this
time, and the Assembly voted TO build an
other either of stone or brick.
Joseph Whippe a merchant Of Newport,
petitioned the General Assembly for spe-
cia act of Insolvency, which was granted
We have heard old people say that the oc-
curreuce of a merchants breaking, in New
port, had rarely if ever been known, such
had been the success of the mercantile men,
before that time, in the town Of Newport.
Joseph Whipple, Esq. resigned his sta
ton as Deputy Governor in Grand Commit
tee; and Jonathan Nichols was then i'm
medlately appointed to fill the place so va
Gated.
Doctor McSparran, an English Mission
yof the church, who lived and preached at
North kingstowD, in work published IN
Dublin this year, states the navigation own
ed in the Colony at 800 sail of vessels from
60 tons upwards-as there are some other
facts as well a good deal of humor, and
some i'll will to the colony mixed together,
we here give the following extract from his
work.
"The first settlers of Rhode Island Peri
granated through the wilderness and fell in
with Rhode Island, and removed their fam
lilies and effects to town called PrOuidence.
These RhOde-IsIand refugees resolved
themselves by their orn, instead of better
authority, into Body Politick, with liber-
ty of conscience allowed to People of all
Persuasions, and became not a regular and
legal Corporation, till King Charles the
Second made them so in 1868, Day be-
= fore or a Day after he had Incorporated the
colony of Connecticut. In Connecticut, In.
dependency is the religion of the State.
But in Rhode Island no Religion is estab-
lished. There Man may with Impunity
be of any Society, or of none at all: but
the .Quakcrs are for the most part the Peo-
pie IN Power. As Quakerism broke out
first in England in 1861, so in 1854 EN-
issares of that Enthusiasm were DISPATCHED
TO the West Indies; and no sooner did
their preachers appear in Rhode Island
but they found many Of the Posterty of the
first Planters too well prepared for the re-
cepiion Of tha, pestilent Heresy. The
twenty four years that had run out from
their first Removal from England, and the
seventeen that had elapsed from their Sec
opd settlement at RhOde-IslaHd, bad car
ried off the stage Of life most of those who
received the first Rudiments Of Religion in
the Mother Country. Their descendants
and Successors without Schools, without a
regular Clergy, became necessarily rude
aud illitera,e, and as QuakerIsm prevailed
Learning wns decried, Ignorance and Her
esy 50 increased, that neither Epiphanius'