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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Providence County, Rhode Island. Providence, the city, was founded in 1636 by renegade preacher Roger Williams, who was forced to flee Massachusetts because of religious persecution. Williams purchased land from the Narragansett Indians and started a new settlement with a policy of religious and political freedom. He named his new ho...
Brown University== Wikipedia =Brown University is an American private Ivy League research university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III (1760–1820), Brown is the third oldest institution of h...
This project is for those who were born, lived, and died in the State of Rhode Island.== Rhode Island officially the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is the smallest in area, the eighth least populous, and the second most densely populated of the 50 U.S. states. Rhode Island is bordered by Connecticut to...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Washington County, Rhode Island. Washington County was created as Kings County in 1729 within the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. It was renamed Washington County on October 29, 1781, in honor of George Washington. At the earliest stage of colonial settlement, the area was called "The Narragansett Country", named a...
This project is for those buried in Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, Rhode Island. The cemetery was first organized under the Swan Point Cemetery Company, with a board of trustees. In 1858, a new charter was developed to make the cemetery administration non-profit, and it was taken over by a group known as the Proprietors of Swan Point Cemetery. In 1886, landscape architect H.W.S. Cleveland wa...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Newport County, Rhode Island.= Official Website =Newport County was constituted on June 22, 1703, as one of the two original counties of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. As originally established, Newport County consisted of four towns: Portsmouth, Newport, Jamestown, and New Shoreham. In 1746–47, two towns, Litt...
List of United States Representatives from Rhode Island Rhode Island's current delegation to the United States House of Representatives as of January 2023: 1st district -- Vacant (as of 1 June 2023 due to resignation of David Cicilline ); special election will be held on 7 November 2023 2nd district -- Seth Magaziner
Wikipedia =The Naval War College (NWC or NAVWARCOL) is the staff college and "Home of Thought" for the United States Navy in Newport, Rhode Island. The NWC educates and develops leaders, supports defining the future Navy and associated roles and missions, supports combat readiness, and strengthens global maritime partnerships. The current president is Rear Admiral P. Gardner Howe, III, a 1984 g...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Kent County, Rhode Island.The county was formed in 1750 and was named after the county of Kent, England. Cities, Towns & Communities Anthony | Arkwright | Blackrock | Coventry | Coventry Centre | Crompton | East Greenwich (County Seat) | Fairbanks | Harris | Hillsgrove | Hopkins Hollow | Lippitt | Nooseneck | Quidnick | Spring Lake | ...
St. George's School=St. George's School is a highly selective, private, Episcopal, coeducational boarding school in Middletown, Rhode Island, USA, just east of the city of Newport. The school was founded in 1896 by the Rev. John Byron Diman, a member of a prominent Rhode Island family. It sits on a hill overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. It is a member of the Independent School League and one of f...
Providence College (also known as Providence or PC) is a private, coeducational, Roman Catholic university located about two miles west of downtown Providence, Rhode Island, United States, the state's capital city. With a 2012–2013 enrollment of 3,852 undergraduate students and 735 graduate students, the college specializes in academic programs in the liberal arts. It is the only college or uni...
The Battle of Rhode Island By Ex-Governor CHARLES WARREN LIPPITT A Paper read at a Special Meeting of the Society in the Old State House September 25th, 1915. Copyright 1915 by Charles Warren Lippitt August 29, 1778, in the annals of Rhode Island, is historic. Its memories are dear to the nation as well as to the State. To commemorate the deeds of national heroes links the present with ...
Crispus Attucks was a black man in the American Revolutionary War, was the first person shot to death by British redcoats during the Boston Massacre, in Boston, Massachusetts, March 5, 1770. He has been named as the first martyr of the American Revolutionary War.Little is known for certain about Crispus Attucks beyond that he, along with Samuel Gray and James Caldwell, died "on the spot" during...
This is a sub-project for the Colonial Americas Master Project. New England is a region in the northeastern corner of the United States consisting of the six states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. New England is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean, Canada (the Canadian Maritimes and Quebec) and the state of New York. In one of the earliest English...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Bristol County, Rhode Island. Created in 1747, the county was formed by the transfer of part of Bristol County, Massachusetts, to the state of Rhode Island, and was the subject of a long-running border dispute. The original county was part of the Plymouth Colony and named after its "shire town" (county seat), what is now Bristol, Rh...
Particularly in the years after 1630, Puritans left for New England, supporting the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and other settlements. The large-scale Puritan emigration to New England then ceased, by 1641, with around 21,000 having moved across the Atlantic. This English-speaking population in America did not all consist of colonists, since many returned, but produced more than 16...
Recorded by Charles and Martha Benns, their #445, in 1935. They found 12 inscribed gravestones. Recorded by CETA in 1976. In 1977 the gravestones were removed from this cemetery and stored in the basement of the RI Veteran's Home in Bristol for safe keeping. The town council would like to move the cemetery but there is some controversy about whether the bodies are to be moved. See Prov Journ...
First Hopkinton Cemetery resides in Hopkinton, Washington County, Rhode Island. Also known as Rhode Island Historic Cemetery Hopkinton #22, the cemetery is active. The oldest, recorded burial is from 1684. Overseen by the First Hopkinton Cemetery Association, the Hopkinton Cemetery is an old and very large burying ground. Cast amid sprawling and rolling hills, this cemetery is an interesting pl...
Elm Grove Cemetery resides in North Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island. Also known as Rhode Island Historic Cemetery North Kingstown #26, the cemetery is overseen by the town of North Kingstown. Elm Grove is a large cemetery which has reinterments dating from the 1690s. The cemetery is still active at present. "Elm Grove Cemetery was founded in 1851 as the first public cemetery in the town. E...
Town Cemetery resides in Jamestown, Newport County, Rhode Island. This small cemetery is also known as Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Jamestown #2. Recorded burials date from 1744 until 1975. Town Cemetery is no longer active.
Elder Benjamin Waite Lot is located in South Kingstown, Washington County, Rhode Island. Also known as Rhode Island Historic Cemetery South Kingstown #A03, this small bury ground hosts two graves - Dr. Benjamin Waite and his wife Dorcas Gardiner Waite. "This is Lot SK A3 in the South Kingstown Cemetery book by Sterling, Wheaton, and Bamberg. James N. Arnold visited this lot on 4 Nov 1880, writ...
The State of Rhode Island General Assembly is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. A bicameral body, it is composed of the lower Rhode Island House of Representatives with 75 representatives, and the upper Rhode Island Senate with 38 senators. Members are elected in the general election immediately preceding the beginning of the term or in special elections called to fill va...
The University of Rhode Island , commonly referred to as URI , is the principal public research as well as the land grant and sea grant university for the state of Rhode Island. Its main campus is located in the village of Kingston in southern Rhode Island. Additionally, smaller campuses include the Feinstein Campus in Providence, the Narragansett Bay Campus in Narragansett, and the W. Alton Jo...
Glenwood Cemetery : The cemetery is located on 316 Cedar Avenue, East Greenwich, Kent County, Rhode Island. Find a Grave
Gorton-Arnold Lot . Located between 144 and 158 Douglas Road in Warwick, Kent County, Rhode Island. Roadside lot that is walled. Sign is nailed to a tree in front and is in good order. Lot is in good shape. The stones however, are either broken or propped against the side and front wall. There are a few stones in good order. This lot adjoins WK#22 and is seperated only by a stone wall. Visited ...