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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers • Frontmatter LOCATIONS OF RHODE ISLAND HISTORY • Concord River • SaturdayPEOPLE CONNECTED WITH RHODE ISLAND • Sunday — New England in General • Monday — Explanations of Various Placenames • Tuesday • — Wednesday Rhode Island as a Whole • — Thursday The Impact of Religion on Rhode Island • — Friday The oldest Friends Meetinghouse in Use in America — Rhode Island and the Middle Passage Early— Rhode WEEK Island (Ross and & Piracy Adams) Later— the WEEK Slave (RossShip Sally & Adams) Birds— Manumission By Boat from Slavery, in Providence RI First— theDraft Katy of becomes WEEK the USS Providence — Also known as “King Phillip’s War” — Rhode Island’s “Dorr War” Go To Active Index

Locations of Rhode Island History: — Martha’s Vineyard — Nantucket Island — Naushon Island in the Elizabeth Islands — Cuttyhunk Island — Block Island — Aquidneck Island — the Blackstone or Pawtucket River — the town of Smithfield RI — the town of Bristol RI — the town of Central Falls RI — the town of Cumberland RI — the town of Warwick RI — the town of Portsmouth RI — the Dighton Rock — Mount Hope “now like to become Mount Misery” — the town of East Greenwich RI — the town of Newport RI — Jamestown, or Connanicut, or Canonicut — the Touro Synagogue — the town of Tiverton RI (Pocasset) — the town of Warren RI — the town of Scituate RI — Providence, Rhode Island — the Slater Mill in Pawtucket — the history of Brown University — New Bedford, in “Greater Rhode Island” Go To Active Index

People connected with (Greater) Rhode Island: — Thomas and Alice Angell of Providence — Blackbeard the pirate — Captain Adriaen Block — John Brown of Providence RI — Friend Moses Brown and his School — Nicholas Brown of Providence RI — Friend Arnold “the Hatter” Buffum — the Reverend William Blackstone or Blaxton — Sachem Canonicus of the Narragansett — (The history of the Narragansett people) — the Unitarian Reverend William Ellery Channing — Elizabeth Buffum Chase — The Reverend John Checkley of Providence — Elder John Clarke — Governor Walter Clarke — Governor William Coddington — Governor John Collins — Samuel B. Comstock — Friend Paul Cuffe of Westport — George William Curtis — Governor Thomas Wilson Dorr — Frederick Douglass and the Dorr War — George Thomas Downing of Newport — Friend Mary Dyer of Newport — William Dyer of Newport — (The Dyer or Dyre Family) — Asa Fairbanks of the Lyceum — Mary Katherine Goddard — Captain Robert Gray of Tiverton, and the Columbia — Colonel Christopher Greene — Major General Nathanael Greene — William Hall or Haule — Doctor Samuel Gridley Howe and Julia Ward Howe — Commodore Esek Hopkins — Governor Stephen Hopkins — Friend John R. Kellam of Providence — Captain Kidd the pirate — President Aaron Lopez of Touro Synagogue — the Reverend James Manning — Representative Henry Marchant — Governor for Life Thomas Mayhew of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket Island — Sachem Metacom of the Wampanoag Go To Active Index — (The history of the Wampanoag people) — Friend Maria Mitchell the astronomer — Captain Thomas Paine of Rhode Island — Sam Patch of Pawtucket — Captain Oliver Hazard Perry — Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry — Samuel Slater and water power — the Reverend Ezra Stiles — the pirate Thomas Tew — Robert Voorhis the hermit — President Francis Wayland of Brown University — Squaw Sachem Weetamoo of the Wampanoag — Phillis Wheatley of Providence and Newport — Friend Sarah Helen Power Whitman of Providence — Friend Jeanne Whitaker of Providence — Captain Palsgrave Williams, the Pirate — the Reverend Roger Williams — Providence’s favorite draft dodger — Friend Horod Long Hicks Gardiner Porter — Red-Headed Quaker Child Kidnapped by Indians