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The traditional Wampanoag Indian lands known as Sowams are located in present day Bristol County, Rhode Island, on an irregular peninsula extending Southward between Narragansett and Mount Hope Bays. Sowams was sold to the English in 1653 for the sum of thirty-five pounds, in close succession with the nearby tracts of Rehobeth, Taunton and Wannamoisett. This text provides an enlightening history of the first European settlement in this region ...

Historical addresses, poem, and other exercises at the celebration of the two hundred - And fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of Rehoboth, Mass., held October 3, 1894 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1894.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the prese...

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

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Excerpt from The History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Vol. 2First was the recognition of the absolute right of the Indian tribes to the soil and the guarantee of the Indian titles to estates in fee simple to the original planters of the colony. This was a remarkable concession, in that it annulled all prior claims to Indian lands by right of discovery or conquest as vested in the crown, and established the contracts...

Excerpt from Sowams: With Ancient Records of Sowams and Parts Adjacent, IllustratedFarmer's Son Farmer, Soldier in the War of the American Revolution, Representative and Senator in the General Assembly, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, Counsellor, for forty years Treasurer of the Congregational Church, Barrington, R. I.His Purity, Nobility, Integrity, and Justice merited the title, Old Aristides.About the PublisherForgotten Books publis...

Excerpt from The History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Vol. 1This history of Rhode Island is, in all important features, my own work. It is in many ways a new revelation Of events and consequently revolutionary in its conclusions. I have endeavored honestly to discover historic facts and to record correct judgments thereon.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. F...

Excerpt from Memorial of a Respectable and Respected Family and Especially of Joshua Bicknell, Farmer, Representative, Senator, Judge, and Eminent Christian CitizenTo know one's ancestry is both a duty and a pleasure. Especially is this true when the line of descent is marked by men and women of integrity, virtue, manly self-reliance, and Christian deeds. Of the Bicknell family, it is quite remarkable that, while few of its members have amasse...

Excerpt from A Memorial of a Respectable and Respected Family and Especially of Joshua Bicknell, Farmer, Representative, Senator, Judge, and Eminent Christian CitizenTo know one's ancestry is both a duty and a pleasure. Especially is this true when the line of descent is marked by men and women of integrity, virtue, manly self-reliance, and Christian deeds. Of the Bicknell family, it is quite remarkable that, while few of its members have amas...

Excerpt from Historical Addresses, Poem, and Other Exercises at the Celebration of the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Settlement of Rehoboth, Mass., Held October 3, 1894North Purchase. Taken together, the territory had many advantages to recommend it for settlement. It had almost every variety of soil, was fertile and well wooded, and, on the side toward Narragansett bay there were large, tree less expanses, admirably fitted for t...

Excerpt from History and Genealogy of the Bicknell Family and Some Collateral Lines of Normandy, Great Britain and America: Comprising Some Ancestors and Many Descendants of Zachary Bicknell From Barrington, Somersetshire, England, 1635By great good fortune, Quin: y Bicknell, Of Hingham, Mass., was chosen historian, and as he was then writing the genealogy of the Tower family, he had unusual qualifications and facilities for gathering the fact...

Excerpt from The History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations: BiographicalMr. 'lister married, in Providence, November 3, 1904, Emma Agnes Harris, daughter of Ira Harris, of North Providence, now deceased. Mr. And Mrs. Lister are the' parents of' a daughter, Mildred Edna, and of a son, Joseph I.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comTh...