Samuel Gorton was an early settler and civic leader of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and President of the towns of Providence and Warwick. He had strong religious beliefs which
Samuel Gorton governor's medallion
19th century depiction of Gorton on trial in Portsmouth
Attack on Shawomet by soldiers from Massachusetts in 1643 from a 19th-century history of the United States
Warwick was destroyed in 1676 during King Philip's War.
Warwick is a city in Kent County, Rhode Island, United States, and is the third-largest city in the state, with a population of 82,823 at the 2020 census. Warwick is located approximately 12 miles sou
Samuel Gorton
…1593–1677) was an early settler and civic leader of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and President of the towns of Providence and Warwick. He had strong religious beliefs which differed from Puritan theology and was very outspoken, and he became the leader of a small sect known as Gortonians…