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Category : Rhode Island
Languages : en
Pages : 970
Book Description
The Life and Times of Samuel Gorton
Author: Samuel Gorton of Rhode Island and His Descendants
Author: Thomas GortonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rhode Island
Languages : en
Pages : 1070
Book Description
Samuel Gorton (1592/1593-1677) married Mary Maplett before 1630, and emigrated in 1636 from England to Boston, Massachusetts, settling in Plymouth, Massachusetts. They later moved to Aquidneck and then to Warwick, Rhode Island. Descendants and relatives lived in New England, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Oregon, Washington, California and elsewhere. Includes ancestry in England to about 1500.
The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing Inc.
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Some Descendants of John Thomas of Jamestown, Rhode Island
Author: Hollis A. Thomas, MDPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1475965710
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
In 1636, Roger Williams, recently banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony because of his religious beliefs, established a settlement at the head of Narragansett Bay that he named “Providence.” This small colony soon became a sanctuary for those seeking to escape religious persecution. Within a few years, a royal land patent and charter resulted in the formation of the “Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations,” which incorporated Williams’ original settlement and espoused his tenets of freedom of religion and separation of church and state. During the ensuing decades, thousands of Baptists, Quakers, Jews, and Huguenots relocated to Rhode Island from other New England colonies, the British Islands, and Europe in search of religious freedom. One such individual, John Thomas, an immigrant from Wales, made significant contributions to early settlements at Jamestown on Conanicut Island and at Wickford on the nearby mainland of Rhode Island. He was the first town constable of Jamestown in 1679, and later owned hundreds of acres of land in the towns of North and South Kingstown. This fully indexed work traces and sketches the lives of his descendants, many of whom were at the forefront of the great American westward migration, and represents the most comprehensive compilation of them to date. It is the result of twenty years of extensive research and includes detailed information from military pension archives, will and estate records, agricultural data, county histories, and migration patterns that far exceeds the standard for genealogical works of this scope and magnitude. It is important for us to remember those who helped shape our nation. This work provides valuable information for those who are interested in this family and its evolution in America.
Genealogy of the Stone Family Originating in Rhode Island
Author: Richard Cecil StoneThe Life and Times of Samuel Gorton
Author: The Grafton Magazine of History and Genealogy
Author: Genealogies in the Library of Congress
Author: Marion J. KaminkowPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806316673
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
This ten-year supplement lists 10,000 titles acquired by the Library of Congress since 1976--this extraordinary number reflecting the phenomenal growth of interest in genealogy since the publication of Roots. An index of secondary names contains about 8,500 entries, and a geographical index lists family locations when mentioned.
Genealogies of the Potter families and their descendants in America to the present generation
Author: Charles Edward PotterPublisher: Dalcassian Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Huguenot Genealogies
Author: Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806351195
Category : Huguenots
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
The volume at hand--a reprint of Volume II of the printed records of Cambridge--is a transcription of the records of Cambridge town meetings and meetings of selectmen from the town's beginnings until 1703.