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Town of Middletown Rhode Island : History |
 | | Rhode Island Sound, Narragansett Bay, and the Sakonnet River bound the community on the south, west, and east, respectively. |
 | | Middletown's waterways are small, little more than seasonal brooks, but there are three large ponds at the south end of town--Nelson Pond and Gardiner Pond at the south end of the Paradise Hills and Green End Pond along the Newport line. |
 | | In 1638, through the intercession of Roger Williams, Aquidneck Island was deeded by Canonicus and Miantonomi to John Clarke, William Coddington, Nicholas Easton, and several other exiles from the Massachusetts colony who established a settlement called Pocasset (later Portsmouth) at the northern end of the island. |
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