Online Review of Rhode Island History

[...] The following are my top ten turning points in the history of Rhode Island.  You may differ with some of my choices, but that is part of the fun. Founding of Rhode [...]

[...] Rhode Island has many claims to fame.  It is unusual, however, to discover a new one.  With “12 Years a [...]

[...] After the Peace of Paris was signed in 1783, bringing a formal end to the War of Independence, Rhode Island merchants, a class that compromised the bulk of the Revolutionary leaders, lost their access [...]

[...] oil, macaroni, spaghetti and meats have advanced materially by reason of pressure outside of Rhode Island, but it is noticeable that such advances are so varying in amounts that Rhode Island dealers [...]

[...] and brothers being jailed and even hanged. Beebe was no doubt aware that the Connecticut General Assembly had on its books a law punishing with death any Connecticut resident who knowingly aided or [...]

[...] white adult male voters was high for the times, and Rhode Islanders voted for governor and General Assembly delegates twice a year.  Rhode Island was one of only two of the original thirteen colonies [...]

[...] payments on the state debt (totaling roughly £94,000) stood at £11,000. That same year, the General Assembly imposed a tax equal to the interest in order to pay down its debt. This tax was passed in [...]

[...] on common pleas starting in 1749 and its chief in 1767, and a North Kingstown deputy to the General Assembly in 1740.  He also served in the King’s County militia, rising to become colonel of a [...]

[...] known as the Dorr Rebellion of 1842, is one of the great chapters and turning points in Rhode Island history.  Many fine works of history have combed through the newspaper and pamphlet literature of [...]

[...] ’s top ten turning points, see William G. McGloughlin, “Ten Turning Points in Rhode Island History,” and J. Stanley Lemons, “Rhode Island’s Ten Turning Points:  A Second Appraisal, [...]

[...] , Christian, “The South Kingstown Planters: Country Gentry in Colonial Rhode Island,” Rhode Island History, vol. 45. no. 3 (August 1986), 82-93. [4]  Unless otherwise stated, information on the [...]

[...] of the ratification debate in Rhode Island. See also Conley’s invaluable, An Album of Rhode Island History, 1636-1986 (1986). Recently, Conley served as consulting editor on the three volumes [...]

Arnold Buffum, one of Rhode Island’s leading abolitionists, was the second son among the eight children of William Buffum and Lydia Arnold.  He was [...]

The following are my top ten turning points in the history of Rhode Island.  You may differ with some of my choices, but that is part of the fun. Fo [...]

Rhode Island has many claims to fame.  It is unusual, however, to discover a new one.  With “12 Years a Slave” winning the 2013 Academy Award fo [...]

[...] , the militia turned to rescuing what equipment they could from the Syren. Enterprising Rhode Islanders knocked over the mast of the Syren and made it a narrow bridge on which to carry out the [...]

[...] in the world.  Its percentage of white adult male voters was high for the times, and Rhode Islanders voted for governor and General Assembly delegates twice a year.  Rhode Island was one of only [...]

[...] British revenue schooner Gaspee. The destruction of the Gaspee was a loud demonstration from Rhode Islanders that they were not going to consent to what they deemed to be unconstitutional taxation [...]

[...] National Archives, ADM 1/5309, p. 410. The post “Strange Mismanagement”: The Capture of the HMS Syren appeared first on Small State Big HIstory. [...]