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Rhode Island is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is the smallest U.S. state by area and the seventh-least populous,with slightly fewer than 1.1 million residents as of 2020,but it is the second-most densely populated after New Jersey. It takes its name from the eponymous island,though most of its land area is on the mainland. Rhode Island borders Connecticut to the west;Massachusetts to the north and east;and the Atlantic Ocean to the south via Rhode Island Sound and Block Island Sound. It also shares a small maritime border with New York. Providence is its capital and most populous city.
Roger Williams was an English-born American Puritan minister,theologian,and author who founded Providence Plantations,which became the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and later the U.S. State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations,now the State of Rhode Island. He was a staunch advocate for religious freedom,separation of church and state,and fair dealings with Native Americans.
Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich was a prominent American politician and a leader of the Republican Party in the United States Senate,where he represented Rhode Island from 1881 to 1911. By the 1890s,he was one of the "Big Four" key Republicans who largely controlled the major decisions of the Senate,along with Orville H. Platt,William B. Allison,and John Coit Spooner. Because of his impact on national politics and central position on the pivotal Senate Finance Committee,he was referred to by the press and public alike as the "general manager of the Nation",dominating tariff and monetary policy in the first decade of the 20th century.
Providence Plantations was the first permanent European American settlement in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. It was established by a group of colonists led by Roger Williams and Dr. John Clarke who left Massachusetts Bay Colony in order to establish a colony with greater religious freedom. Providence Plantations became the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations,which became the State of Rhode Island after the American Revolution.
The Narragansett people are an Algonquian American Indian tribe from Rhode Island. Today,Narragansett people are enrolled in the federally recognized Narragansett Indian Tribe. They gained federal recognition in 1983.
Aquidneck Island,also known as Rhode Island,is an island in Narragansett Bay in the state of Rhode Island. The total land area is 97.9 km2 (37.8 sq mi),which makes it the largest island in the bay. The 2020 United States Census reported its population as 60,109. The state of Rhode Island is named after the island;the United States Board on Geographic Names recognizes Rhode Island as the name for the island,although it is widely referred to as Aquidneck Island in the state and by the island's residents.
The Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations was one of the original Thirteen Colonies established on the east coast of America,bordering the Atlantic Ocean. It was founded by Roger Williams. It was an English colony from 1636 until 1707,and then a colony of Great Britain until the American Revolution in 1776,when it became the State of Rhode Island.
John Clarke was a physician,Baptist minister,co-founder of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations,author of its influential charter,and a leading advocate of religious freedom in America.
Roger Williams University (RWU) is a private university in Bristol,Rhode Island. Founded in 1956,it was named for theologian and Rhode Island cofounder Roger Williams. The school enrolls over 5,000 students and employs over 480 academic staff.
William Coddington was an early magistrate of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and later of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. He served as the judge of Portsmouth and Newport,governor of Portsmouth and Newport,deputy governor of the four-town colony,and then governor of the entire colony. Coddington was born and raised in Lincolnshire,England. He accompanied the Winthrop Fleet on its voyage to New England in 1630,becoming an early leader in Boston. There he built the first brick house and became heavily involved in the local government as an assistant magistrate,treasurer,and deputy.
John Coggeshall Sr. was one of the founders of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and the first President of all four towns in the Colony. He was a successful silk merchant in Essex,England,but he emigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1632 and quickly assumed a number of roles in the colonial government. In the mid-1630s,he became a supporter of dissident minister John Wheelwright and of Anne Hutchinson. Hutchinson was tried as a heretic in 1637,and Coggeshall was one of three deputies who voted for her acquittal. She was banished from the colony in 1638,and the three deputies who voted for her acquittal were also compelled to leave. Before leaving Boston,Coggeshall and many other Hutchinson supporters signed the Portsmouth Compact in March 1638 agreeing to form a government based on the individual consent of the inhabitants. They then established the settlement of Portsmouth on Aquidneck Island,one of the four towns comprising the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
Ray Greene was a United States senator and Attorney General from Rhode Island during the early days of statehood.
Benedict Arnold was president and then governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations,serving for a total of 11 years in these roles. He was born and raised in the town of Ilchester,Somerset,England,likely attending school in Limington nearby. In 1635 at age 19,he accompanied his parents,siblings,and other family members on a voyage from England to New England where they first settled in Hingham in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. In less than a year,they moved to Providence Plantation at the head of the Narragansett Bay at the request of Roger Williams. In about 1638,they moved once again about five miles (8 km) south to the Pawtuxet River,settling on the north side at a place commonly called Pawtuxet. Here they had serious disputes with their neighbors,particularly Samuel Gorton,and they put themselves and their lands under the jurisdiction of Massachusetts,a situation which lasted for 16 years.
John Sanford was an early settler of Boston,Massachusetts,an original settler of Portsmouth,Rhode Island,and a governor of the combined towns of Portsmouth and Newport in the Rhode Island colony,dying in office after serving for less than a full term. He had some military experience in England,and also was an employee of Massachusetts magistrate John Winthrop's household prior to sailing to New England in 1631 with Winthrop's wife and oldest son. He lived in Boston for six years and was the cannoneer there.
The drafting of the Constitution of the United States began on May 25,1787,when the Constitutional Convention met for the first time with a quorum at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania to revise the Articles of Confederation. It ended on September 17,1787,the day the Frame of Government drafted by the convention's delegates to replace the Articles was adopted and signed. The ratification process for the Constitution began that day,and ended when the final state,Rhode Island,ratified it on May 29,1790.
Elisha Dyer was an American politician and the 25th Governor of Rhode Island.
Providence is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. One of the oldest cities in New England,it was founded in 1636 by Roger Williams,a Reformed Baptist theologian and religious exile from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He named the area in honor of "God's merciful Providence" which he believed was responsible for revealing such a haven for him and his followers. The city developed as a busy port as it is situated at the mouth of the Providence River in Providence County,at the head of Narragansett Bay.
Samuel Wilbore was one of the founding settlers of Portsmouth in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. He emigrated from Essex,England to Boston with his wife and three sons in 1633. He and his wife both joined the Boston church,but a theological controversy began to cause dissension in the church and community in 1636,and Wilbore aligned himself with John Wheelwright and Anne Hutchinson,signing a petition in support of dissident minister Wheelwright. In so doing,he and many others were disarmed and dismissed from the Boston church. In March 1638,he was one of 23 individuals who signed a compact to establish a new government,and this group purchased Aquidneck Island,then known as "Rhode Island",from the Narragansett Indians at the urging of Roger Williams,establishing the settlement of Portsmouth.
Robert Charles Evans is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who has been serving as auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Providence in Rhode Island since 2009.
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