The Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations was an English colony on the eastern coast of North America, founded in 1636 on former land of the Narragansett tribe by Puritan minister Roger Wi
The original 1636 deed to Providence signed by Chief Canonicus
Roger Williams returning with the royal charter
Four-time governor of the colony and first chancellor of Brown University Stephen Hopkins was influential in his support of the American Revolution.
William Coddington
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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 in that
Anne Hutchinson was likely given legal advice by Coddington during the Antinomian Controversy
John Winthrop presided over Hutchinson's trial in 1637 as both accuser and judge.
Portsmouth Compact with Coddington's signature first on the list
Governor William Coddington House, a stone-ender in Newport built around 1640 and demolished in 1835. It was adjacent to the White Horse Tavern, which sits on land originally owned by Coddington