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Online Records [edit | edit source]

Many records from the colonial era in New England were kept at the town or canton level. Search the catalog at the town or county level to locate those records.

  • 1582-1932 - Rhode Island, Wills and Probate Records - index and images at Beginnings.com ($)
  • 1638-1644 - Records of Rhode Isle - images simply
  • 1638-1670 - Rhode Island (Colony) records - images only
  • 1723-1790 - Maritime papers of Rhode Island - partially digitized
  • 1730-1765 - Military papers of Rhode Isle (colonial menstruation), 1730-1765 - images only +++
  • 1731-1792 - Military papers of Rhode Isle (colonial and Revolutionary War periods), 1731-1792 - images only +++
  • 1741-1746 - Rhode Island and Massachusetts boundary committee, 1741-1746, 1846-1848 : Rhode Island and Massachusetts boundary commission - images only +++

History [edit | edit source]

Rhode Island was founded in 1636 past Roger Williams and other European settlers who were banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Williams negotiated with the Native Americans living there for country and named the identify Providence Plantations. In 1644 the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations was created and consisted of Providence, Portsouth, and Newport. Warwick joined in 1647. Rhode Isle became part of the Dominion of New England in 1686, merely regained its independence in 1688.[ane] [2]

Earliest Church Records Earliest Land Records Earliest Court Records Primeval Newspapers
1636 1636 1638 1732

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Resources [edit | edit source]

Church building Records [edit | edit source]

  • The Records of American Baptists in Rhode Island and Related Organizations past American Baptist Historical Society. (Rochester, NY: American Baptist Historical Society, 1982).

Courtroom Records [edit | edit source]

  • Records of the Colony of Rhode Island and providence Plantations in New England 1636-1792, Printed by Order of the Legislature by John R. Bartlett. (Providence: A.C. Dark-green, 1856-1865).
  • Rhode Island Court Records: Records of The Court of Trials of The Colony of Providence Plantations, 1647-1670. 2 Vols. (Providence: Rhode Island Historical Society, 1920-1922).
  • Records of the Vice-Admiralty Court of Rhode Island: 1716-1752. (1936. Reprint. Millwood, NY: Kraus Reprint, 1975).

Early Families and Histories [edit | edit source]

  • Colonial Rhode Island: A History past Sydney V. James. (New York: Charles Scribner'southward Sons, 1975).
  • Concerning the French Settlements and French Settlers in the Colony of Rhode Island by Elisha R. Potter. (1879. Reprint. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1968).
  • Dutch Settlers Gild Collections. seven Vols. (Albany: The Society, 1927-1945).
  • Genealogies of Rhode Isle Families: From the New England Historical and Genealogical Annals. ii Vols. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1989).
  • Genealogies of Rhode Island Families: From Rhode Island Periodicals. 2 Vols. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co,. 1983).
  • The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Isle: Comprising Three Generations of Settlers Who Came Earlier 1690 past John Osborne Austin. (1887. Reprint. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1969).
  • History of the State of Rhode Isle and Providence Plantations: 1636-1790 by Samuel Greene Arnold. 2 Vols. (1859. Reprint. Spartanburg, SC: The Reprint Co., 1970).
  • Rhode Island Biographical and Genealogical Sketch Index by J. Carlyle Parker. (Turlock, CA: Marietta Publishing Co., 1991).
  • Rhode Island Sources for Family Historians and Genealogists by Kip Sperry. (Logan, UT: Everton Publishers, 1986).
  • Settlers of Aquidneck , and Freedom of Conscience by Henry E. Turner. (Newport: Newport Historical Publishing Co., 1880).

Other [edit | edit source]

  • A listing of Rhode Island soldiers and sailors in King George's state of war : 1740-1748 by Howard Thousand. Chapin. (Providence, Rhode Isle : Rhode Island Historical Social club, 1920).
  • Census of the Inhabitants of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations 1774 by John R. Bartlett. (1858. Reprint. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1969).
  • Commerce of Rhode Island: 1726-1800. 2 Vols. (Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1914-1915).
  • The correspondence of the colonial governors of Rhode Island, 1723-1775 published past the National Guild of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations; edited by Gertrude Selwyn Kimball. two Vols. (Boston: National Society of the Colonial Dames of America, 1902-1903).
  • The First 100 Years of the Church building of England in Rhode Island by Edgar Fifty. Pennington. (Hartford: Church building Missions Publishing, 1935)
  • Peirce's colonial lists : ceremonious, military and professional lists of Plymouth and Rhode Island colonies, comprising colonial, county and town officers, clergymen, physicians and lawyers ; with extracts from colonial laws defining their duties. 1621-1700 past Ebenezer Due west. Peirce. (Boston, MA: A. Williams & Co.; David Clapp & Son, 1881).
  • Rhode Island in the colonial wars; a list of Rhode Island soldiers & sailors in the old French & Indian War, 1755-1762 Howard M. Chapin. (Providence, Rhode Island : Rhode Island Historical Guild, 1918).
  • Runaways, Deserters, and Notorious Villains from Rhode Island Newspapers by Maureen Alice Taylor. Vol. 1. The Providence Gazette, 1762 1800 (Camden, ME: Picton Press, 1995).
  • Supplement to the Rhode Island colonial records comprising a listing of the freemen admitted from May 1747 to May 1754 by Sidney Southward. Rider. (Providence, R.I. : Sidney Due south. Passenger, 1875).

References [edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ Christina Yard. Schaefer, Genealogical encyclopedia of the colonial Americas : a complete digest of the records of all the countries of the Western Hemisphere (Baltimore, Maryland : Genealogical Publishing Company, c1998), 313. WorldCat (Other Libraries); FHL volume 929.11812 D26 1998
  2. ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Rhode Island," in Wikipedia: the Gratuitous Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhode_Island, accessed 7 Jan 2020.
  3. ↑ Christina K. Schaefer, Genealogical encyclopedia of the colonial Americas : a complete digest of the records of all the countries of the Western Hemisphere (Baltimore, Maryland : Genealogical Publishing Visitor, c1998), 183, 192. WorldCat (Other Libraries); FHL book 929.11812 D26 1998

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