Adriaen Block visited Aquidneck in the 1610s .
Adriaen Block passed by the island during his expeditions in the 1610s , and he described it in a 1625 account of his travels as `` an island of reddish appearance , '' which was `` een rodlich Eylande '' in 17th-century Dutch , and one popular notion is that this Dutch phrase might have influenced the name Rhode Island . (
Rhode Island