1st Regiment, Rhode Island Cavalry was a cavalry regiment that participated in the American Civil War. They were badly routed at the Battle of Middleburg, a blemish on an otherwise competent combat record. The regiment was organized between December 1861 and March 1862 at Pawtucket as the 1st New England Cavalry. Late in that month, the regiment was sent to Washington D.C. and initially assigne...
This project is used to relate all units from Rhode Island who served in the Union Army.
The Coy family is one of somewhat mysterious origin in the 18th Century. There appears to be, in particular, two-three separate John Coys who had 20+ children between them in Connecticut, Maryland, and Rhode Island. Christopher Coy, a son of one of these Coys, had a son named Samuel whose descendants would move West.It is unknown whether any of these 2-3 John Coys actually had a middle name or ...
Please add your "Narragansett planter" families to this project. Collaborators may update the "project" page.From Narragansett Bay: Its Historic and Romantic Associations and Picturesque Setting, by Edgar Mayhew Bacon (Google eBook) 1904"Until 1647, each town was governed independently. The situation of each is plainly designated upon the map to-day, but where, asks the enquirer after truth, ar...
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This subportal is part of the USA Portal . =This project will link to other projects about Rhode Island genealogy, history, immigration/settlement, and populations.* Huguenots of Colonial America: New England * Reynolds Family * Greene Family * Swamp Yankees of Southern New England * Barker Family * Descendants of Roger Williams * Joseph Bucklin Family Providence RI
The Farber Collection is a photographs collection held by the The American Antiquarian Society Photographs of Sculpture on American GravestonesAn unusual but valuable collection at the American Antiquarian Society is that of the photographs of grave markers. Old burial grounds are treasure houses of early American sculpture and of historical and genealogical information. As Harriet Merrifield F...
The Historical Jewish community of Newport, Rhode Island traces its origins to 1658 when Mordecai Campanal and Moses Pacheco arrived from Barbados.>>= George Washington 1790 When George Washington visited Newport, R.I., in August 1790 , the President found not just one Jewish family, but a Hebrew congregation with its own synagogue. They offered him a warm welcome to their community through a l...
Rhode Island Veterans Cemetery is located in Exeter, Rhode Island. Find a Grave
This is an umbrella project for all projects related to Jews from Rhode Island .