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Westerly Rhode Island

Westerly Rhode Island and Its Witnesses



For two hundred and fifty years, 1626-1876, including Charlestown, Hopkinton, and Richmond, until their separate organization, with the principal points of their subsequent history



by Frederic Denison
CONTENTS

Chapter I. Introduction

Chapter II. The Aborigines

Chapter III. Indian names

Chapter IV. Waifs of Indian life

Chapter V. The first whites

Chapter VI. Purchase of Misquamicut

Chapter VII. Notes of the seventeenth century

Chapter VIII. First Sabbatarian Church

Chapter IX. Early Presbyterian Church

Chapter X. Early Episcopal Church

Chapter XI. The Indian Church

Chapter XII. Spread of great principles

Chapter XIII. The great revival

Chapter XIV. The Hill Church

Chapter XV. Incidents of the Revolution

Chapter XVI. The Wilcox Church

Chapter XVII. The Quaker meetings

Chapter XVIII. The Gardner Church

Chapter XIX. Notes of the eighteenth century

Chapter XX. Emigrations

Chapter XXI. Roll of early freemen

Chapter XXII. Roll of representatives

Chapter XXIII. Delusions and superstitions

Chapter XXIV. Potter Hill

Chapter XXV. Westerly and Pawcatuck

Chapter XXVI. Stillmanville

Chapter XXVII. Dorrville or Niantic

Chapter XXVIII. Lottery Village

Chapter XXIX. The red school-house

Chapter XXX. The union meeting-house

Chapter XXXI. Churches in towns set off

Chapter XXXII. Later Churches in the town

Chapter XXXIII. Notes fo the nineteenth century

Chapter XXXIV. Fanatics and enthusiasts

Chapter XXXV. White Rock Village

Chapter XXXVI. The quarries

Chapter XXXVII. Fisheries

Chapter XXXVIII. Marine losses

Chapter XXXIX. Corporations, associations, and trades

Chapter XL. Publications, inventions

Chapter XLI. Public men

Chapter XLII. Public-houses

Chapter XLIII. Academies

Chapter XLIV. Amusements

Chapter XLV. Swindles and swindlers

Chapter XLVI. Banks and bankers

Chapter XLVII. Recent roll of honor

Chapter XLVIII. Grave-yards and graves

Chapter XLIX. Reforms

Chapter L. Review and observations

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