Rhode Island founders
Subtitle: from settlement to statehood
By: Patrick T. Conley
Publisher: History Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781596297395
Subjects: Pioneers -- Rhode Island -- Biography; Clergy -- Rhode Island -- Biography; Revolutionaries -- Rhode Island -- Biography; Politicians -- Rhode Island -- Biography; Soldiers -- Rhode Island -- Biography; Rhode Island -- Biography; Rhode Island -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Biography; Rhode Island -- History -- 1775-1865 -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. The pioneers : pre-1700; title: Giovanni da Verrazzano; title: Chief sachem Massasoit (Ousamequin); title: Chief sachems Canonicus and Miantonomi; title: Reverend William Blackstone; title: Roger Williams; title: Anne Hutchinson; title: Governor William Coddington; title: Dr. John Clarke; title: Samuel Gorton; title: Reverend Samuel Newman; title: William Harris; title: Richard Smith; title: Reverend Gregory Dexter; title: Mary Dyer; title: Mayor and Captain Thomas Willett; title: Chief sachem Metacomet (King Philip); title: pt. 2. The stabilizers : 1700/1763; title: Judge Nathaniel Byfield; title: Governor Samuel Cranston; title: Bishop George Berkeley; title: James and Ann (Smith) Franklin; title: William Claggett, Sr.; title: Reverend John Callender; title: Reverend Dr. James MacSparran; title: Samuel Casey   Peter Harrison   John Goddard; title: John Townsend; title: pt. 3. The revolutionaries : 1763/1790; title: Sarah Updike Goddard; title: Silas Downer; title: Solomon Southwick; title: Reverend Dr. Ezra Stiles; title: Governor and Chief Justice Samuel Ward; title: Governor, Chief Justice, and Signer Stephen Hopkins; title: Captain Abraham Whipple; title: Commodore Esek Hopkins   Colonel Christopher Greene; title: Major General Nathanael Greene; title: Catharine Littlefield Greene; title: Colonel William Barton; title: Captain Stephen Olney; title: Captain Silas Talbot; title: Joseph Brown; title: Moses Brown; title: Reverend Samuel Hopkins; title: Reverend James Manning; title: John Carter; title: Major General James Mitchell Varnum; title: Signer and Congressman William Ellery; title: Congressman Jonathan Hazard; title: Congressman and Judge Henry Marchant; title: Congressman and Judge Benjamin Bourne; title: Senator William Bradford; title: Senator Theodore Foster; title: Captain Robert Gray.