US-RBrRW-UA2024.002 The Rhode Island Collection 1831-1976 Finding aid prepared by Heidi Benedict. Roger Williams University 2024
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 The Rhode Island Collection 1831-1976 The Rhode Island Collection 11 items Roger Williams University Printed material about the history of Rhode Island UA 2024.002 Collection information

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Rhode Island Collection, UA 2024.002, Roger Williams University Archives, Bristol, RI.

This collection consists of printed pamphlets and books dealing with Rhode Island history.

The collection is arranged in 2 series: Pamphlets Books

Administrative information

The bulk of the material in this collection comes from the library's former "Rhode Island Collection," wihch ceased as a circulating collection in about 2008. Other items came from private donors.

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Series 1 Pamphlets 1 Hard-Scrabble calendar: report of the trials of Oliver Cummins, Nathaniel G. Metcalf, Gilbert Humes and Arthur Farrier; who were indicted with six others for a riot, and for aiding in pulling down a dwelling-house, on the 18th of October, at Hard-Scrabble. 1824

Item is alfdso available to view online in RWU’s Jstor collections.

1 City Charter, proposed for the adoption of the freeman of Providence, at a town meeting, to be holden October 22, 1831. 1831

Item is also available to view online in RWU’s Jstor collections.

 1 History of the Providence Riots, from Sept. 21 to Sept. 24, 1831 1831

Item is available in the HathiTrust digital library.

 1 The Memorial Chapel of the First Congregational Church, Bristol , R.I. 1870

Item is also available to view online in RWU’s Jstor collections.

 1 Charles MacCarthy, a Rhode Island pioneer, 1677 - Thomas Hamilton Murray 1901

Item is available online in the HathiTrust digital library.

 Series 2 Books 1 Report on the geological and agricultural survey of the state of Rhode-Island: made under a resolve of legislature in the year 1839 - Charles T. Jackson 1840 1 A Memoir of Emily Saville by her cousin Constance Grosvenor Alexander 1924

Item is also available to view online in RWU’s Jstor collections.

 1 Collected papers on the inscribed rocks of Narragansett Bay - Edmund B. Delabarre 1925 1 The story of Pettaquamscutt - Mary Kenyon Huling 1936 1 Other Indian events of New England: a collection of interesting incidents in the lives of the early settlers and the Indians of this country, with reproductions of old prints and photographs, volume II - Allan Forbes 1941 1 A brief history of the colonial wars in America from 1607 to 1775 - Herbert Treadwell Wade 1948 1 Rhode Island Quakers in the American Revolution, 1775-1790 1976 1 The Yale man up-to-date with character sketches - Jean Pardee 1976