Identifier: newenglandhandbo1880swee (find matches)
Title: New England : a handbook for travelers
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Sweetser, M. F. (Moses Foster), 1848-1897
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Publisher: Boston, Mass. : James R. Osgood
Contributing Library: Northeastern University, Snell Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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ade by exiled dissenters from the State church of Puritan land. Theseembraced Baptists, Antinomians, and many Quakers, and Rhode Island had sucha consequent air of heterodoxy and irregularity about it that it was excluded fromthe league of the United Colonies, although it had received a royal charter in1665. So late as the beginning of the present century^ President Dwight attrib-uted the laxity of morals in Stonington to its nearness to Rhode Island. Sothe little colony drew in its outlying settlements, fortified Providence, and main-tained armed vessels cmising about Rhode Island throughout King PhiUps War,so that no hostile Indian landed on the shores of the Isle of Peace. Anawan, the chief captain of King Philip, and 60 of his bravest warriors, sur-rendered to Captain Chmch after the death of Philip, being promised amnesty.The broken-hearted chief delivered up his sovereigns rude regalia, and all accom-panied Church to Newport, where, shortly after, in Churchs absence, he was per-
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BOSTON TO NEW YORK. Route 3. 41 fidiously beheaded. The chief Tispaqiiin and his men also surrendered to Churchunder solemn pledges of pardon and amnesty, but the murder of this patrioticleader was reserved for the people of Plymouth. In 1629-31 Dean Berkeley gave a high literary tone to the colony, and organizeda philosophic society and scientific discussions. The harbor of Newport wasfortified in 1733. The royal census of 1730 reported 4,640 inhabitants in the town.In 1769-70 Xe\vpoi-t stood second only to Boston in the extent of its commerce,being far ahead of New York. Its population in 1774 was 12,000, and in 1870 itwas 12,518. In Dec, 1776, the town was captured by a British expedition fromNew York, and was held until Nov., 1779. Lord Percy commanded here untilhe was summoned to England to assume the Dukedom of Northumberland.The Hessian Waldeck regiment (1,500 men) formed part of the garrison, andAdmiral Howes fleet wintered here, 1777-78, and returned here after its battlewith

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