Historic Tales of Colonial Rhode Island: Aquidneck Island and the Founding of the Ocean State by Richard V. Simpson

Historic Tales of Colonial Rhode Island: Aquidneck Island and the Founding of the Ocean State

American Chronicles

Richard V. Simpson

178 pages • missing pub info (editions)

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Roger Williams purchased the fertile Aquidneck Island from the Narragansett tribe in 1637. It was here that Anne Hutchinson, along with William Coddington and other colonists who had been banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, found shelter f...

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