Rhode Island General Assembly records
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Administration of Justice; Legislative bodies; History
Description: Minutes, acts, and proceedings of Rhode Island's colonial legislature sitting in various towns.  The records reflect the degree of local self-government granted to the colony by England and document the legislative and judicial histories of Newport, Portsmouth, Providence, and Warwick, as well as the colony as a whole.
Notes: Open to research.

Acquisition, 19th century.

Purchase, 1912.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009023

Originally processed as two collections titled, Records of the Rhode Island Legislature and Records of the Rhode Island General Assembly.