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	Rhode Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rhode (pronounced "Road") Island is part of the New England region, and was one of the thirteen original American colonies that declared independence against British rule to begin the American Revolution.
		Rhode Island is bordered on the north and east by Massachusetts, on the west by Connecticut, and on the south by Rhode Island Sound and the Atlantic Ocean.
		Rhode Island was one of the Northern colonies (aka "New England" colonies).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rhode_Island (1893 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search View - Rhode Island
		Rhode Island did not send delegates to the constitutional convention in 1787, and there was widespread opposition in the state to ratifying the Constitution.
		Rhode Island was the last of the original 13 states to ratify the Constitution and did so with the narrowest margin, a vote of 34 to 32 on May 29, 1790.
		Rhode Island’s economic boom of the mid-1980s was followed by a sharp recession beginning in 1989, during which the state’s credit union system collapsed, property values plummeted, unemployment rose, and thousands of manufacturing jobs were lost, even in the jewelry industry.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761572815__1/Rhode_Island.html (10807 words)

	Rhode Island - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Rhode Island (pronounced "Road Island") is part of the New England region, and was one of the thirteen colonies that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution.
		Rhode Island was the last state to ratify the United States Constitution (May 29, 1790) and did so only under the threat of being declared a foreign nation and having its exports taxed.
		Rhode Island is bordered on the north and east by Massachusetts, on the west by Connecticut, on the southwest by New York (sea border), and on the south by Rhode Island Sound and the North Atlantic Ocean.
	open-encyclopedia.com /RI (767 words)

	Joseph Story: Rhode Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		RHODE ISLAND was originally settled by emigrants from Massachusetts, fleeing thither to escape from religious persecution; and it still boasts of Roger Williams as its founder, and as the early defender of religious freedom and the rights of conscience.
		Rhode Island enjoys the honour of having been if not the first, at least one of the earliest of the colonies, and indeed of modern states, in which the liberty of conscience and freedom of worship were boldly proclaimed among its fundamental laws.
		Rhode Island made application to be admitted into this Union; but was refused upon the ground, that the territory was within the limits of Plymouth colony.
	www.lonang.com /exlibris/story/sto-108.htm (2149 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Rhode Island
		It includes the Island of Rhode Island, Block Island, and the lands adjacent to Narragansett Bay, bounded on the north and east by Massachusetts, on the south by the Atlantic Ocean, and on the west by Connecticut.
		The population of Rhode Island in 1708 was 7181.
		According to the State census of 1095, the number of foreign-born in Rhode Island is as follows; born in Canada, 38,500; in Ireland, 32,629; In England, 24,431; In Italy, 18,014; In Sweden, 7201; In Scotland, 5649; in Portugal, 5293; In Russia, 4505; in Germany, 4463; in Poland, 4104.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/13020a.htm (4696 words)

	Rhode Island - dKosopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Rhode Island was the first colony to declare its independence from the crown in May of 1776 and the last original colony to ratify the Constitution.
		Rhode Island is home to one of the largest Southeast Asian communities in the United States.
		The Rhode Island General Assembly, is bicameral, with a Senate and a House of Representatives whose members are apportioned on the basis of population.
	www.dkosopedia.com /index.php?title=Rhode_Island&printable=yes (548 words)

	Rhode Island
		Williams believed in the importance of liberty of conscience, which became an important principle in the founding of Rhode Island and ultimately in the founding of the United States.
		Officially called "The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations," Rhode Island is one of the six New England states and one of the original 13 states of the Union, entering in 1790.
		Rhode Island's flower is the violet, and the capital is Providence.
	www.americaslibrary.gov /cgi-bin/page.cgi/es/ri (155 words)

	13 colonies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The 13 colonies were thirteen British colonies in North America, separately chartered and governed, that signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and formally broke with the Kingdom of Great Britain, leading to the American Revolutionary War and the establishment of the United States of America.
		Other British North American possessions—the former French colony of Quebec and the colonies of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island—remained loyal to the British Crown and much later were united as Canada.
		The red area is the area of the 13 colonies after the Proclamation of 1763.
	www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/1/13/13_colonies.html (351 words)

	PALAZZOLO V. RHODE ISLAND
		Petitioner filed an inverse condemnation action in Rhode Island Superior Court, asserting that the State’s wetlands regulations, as applied by the Council to his parcel, had taken the property without compensation in violation of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments.
		We disagree with the Supreme Court of Rhode Island as to the first two of these conclusions; and, we hold, the court was correct to conclude that the owner is not deprived of all economic use of his property because the value of upland portions is substantial.
		The judgment of the Rhode Island Supreme Court is affirmed in part and reversed in part, and the case is remanded for further proceedings not inconsistent with this opinion.
	straylight.law.cornell.edu /supct/html/99-2047.ZO.html (6125 words)

	Rhode Island colonial history
		While the framework of the colony of Connecticut was in process of construction, that of its little neighbor on the east, Rhode Island, was like-wise in a formative state.
		A colony founded upon the liberal principles advocated by Williams was not a pleasant subject for the contemplation of Massachusetts magistrates and clergymen at that period, and the time for his departure was extended until spring.
		That body had entrusted the management of colonial affairs to a commission of which the Earl of Warwick, the original grantee of Connecticut, was the head as "Governor-General and Lord High Admiral of the colonies in America." He was assisted by a council composed of five peers and ten commons.
	www.publicbookshelf.com /public_html/Our_Country_Vol_1/rhodeisl_fe.html (2750 words)

	Voting Rights and the Dorr Rebellion
		While Rhode Island had been a haven refuge for free thinkers and religious dissidents since its founding in the seventeenth century, weakness in its political structure became apparent during the industrial revolution.
		Roger Williams founded the Rhode Island Colony in 1636 after he was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his religious views.
		The charter he received from King Charles II allowed Rhode Island "to hold forth a lively experiment that a most flourishing civil state may stand and best be maintained with full liberty of religious concernments".
	www.woonsocket.org /dorrwar.html (530 words)

	Rhode Island History: Chapter 2
		Rhode Island's first permanent settlement was established at Providence in 1636 by English clergyman Roger Williams and a small band of followers who had left the repressive atmosphere of the Massachusetts Bay Colony to seek freedom of worship.
		It was the most liberal charter to be issued by the mother country during the entire colonial era, a fact that enabled it to serve as Rhode Island's basic law until May 1843.
		The most important and traumatic event in seventeenth- century Rhode Island was King Philip's War (1675-76), the culmination of a four-decade decline in Indian-white relations.
	www.rilin.state.ri.us /studteaguide/RhodeIslandHistory/chapt2.html (1346 words)

	UPNE \| The Colonial Metamorphoses in Rhode Island
		With meticulous detail, noted colonial historian Sydney V. James relates the story of the way in which Rhode Island's founders created, and then rationalized, the institutions that shaped their lives at both the local and provincial levels.
		The Colonial Metamorphoses in Rhode Island brings to light new ways of looking at an often neglected period stretching from the founding to the revolutionary era.
		Colonial Metamorphoses is packed with valuable information about the origins of institutions historians have all too frequently taken for granted.
	www.upne.com /1-58465-017-6.html (657 words)

	Rhode Island
		Rhode Island's rebellious, authority-defying nature was further demonstrated by the burnings of the British revenue cutters
		Rhode Island, smallest of the 50 states, is densely populated and highly industrialized.
		Rhode Island, University of - Rhode Island, University of, at Kingston; coeducational; land-grant and state-supported; chartered...
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0108266.html (446 words)

	East Providence -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The site was long occupied by Wampanoag Indians before Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island colony, established himself there in 1636; he left at the request of Plymouth colony.
		With a length of 21 miles (34 km) and a width of 7 miles, the island is mostly flat, with swamps and several shallow lakes.
		Rhode Island is governed by its second constitution since the original charter.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9031792?tocId=9031792&query=providence (955 words)

	Providence, Rhode Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Faced with encroachments from Massachusetts and Connecticut, Williams sailed to England to obtain a charter for the new Rhode Island colony.
		King Charles II granted Rhode Island a favorable new charter "to hold forth a lively experiment that a most flourishing civil state may stand and best be maintained with full liberty of religious concernments".
		Today, Providence is the largest city in Rhode Island and the third largest in New England after Boston and Worcester.
	www.woonsocket.org /river/provhist.htm (480 words)

	Rhode Island and Providence Plantation
		But with sublime inconsistency the legislature of the colony, some time after the charter was granted, declared that "Roman Catholics shall not enjoy the rights of freemen." So liberal was this charter and so devoted to it were the people that it remained in force until after the Dorr Rebellion of 1842.
		As Doyle says, "Rhode Island was to New England what New England as a whole was to the mother country" -- an outcast child that in the end brought glory to the parent state.
		The colony was excluded from the confederacy of 1643, and, moreover, it was harassed for years by the claims upon its territory by Massachusetts and Connecticut.
	www.usahistory.info /New-England/Rhode-Island.html (671 words)

	Roger Williams
		Williams left the colony and survived the winter of 1636 by living with the Wampanoag (wahm•puh•NOH•ag) and the Narraganset (nar•uh•GAN•suht) Indians.
		Rhode Island received a charter—a document giving official permission—from the king in 1644.
		Williams was elected as president of Rhode Island Colony and served from 1654 to 1657.
	www.harcourtschool.com /activity/biographies/rwilliams (666 words)

	13 Originals
		Sir Richard Grenville led the fleet that brought them to the New World, the Governor of the colony was Master Ralph Lane and among the colonists was Walter Raleigh's confidant Thomas Harriot, author of "A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia", a chronicle of their adventure.
		Rhode Island was the last of the 13 colonies to ratify the Federal Constitution and became a State in 1790.
		This colonial charter was challenged by many Virginians who had settled in Albermarle Sound and resented their inclusion in the Carolina Charter.
	www.timepage.org /spl/13colony.html (3735 words)

	Rhode Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Rhode Island was known for the freedom it had.
		It was the first colony to have freedom and the first to stop permitting slavery.
		Rhode Island got most of its power and the useful things it produced from its producing grist mills and textile mills because of all the great rivers Rhode Island has.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Agora/2827/colonyri.html (329 words)

	Cranston -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The first settlement was made on the Pawtuxet River in 1638 by William Arnold, an ancestor of Benedict Arnold and a compatriot of Roger Williams, founder of Rhode Island colony.
		Rhode Island comprises five counties, eight cities, and 31 towns (townships).
		county, northern Rhode Island, U.S. It is bordered by Connecticut to the west, Massachusetts to the north and the east, and Narragansett Bay to the southeast.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9026766?tocId=9026766 (547 words)

	The Rhode Island Colony (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		William Blackstone was a hermit and he came to Rhode Island to avoid persecution from the Puritans.
		By the 1670's, Rhode Island was made of 4 major areas and 6 counties.
		Rhode Island was the first colony to protest the stamp act by burring the British war ship the Gaspee.
	www.ga.k12.pa.us /academics/LS/4/sstudies/Colonial/4K/4k98/4kbps.htm (293 words)

	Roger Williams Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In the early 1920s, the Zeta Beta Tau Supreme Council, during the presidency of Julius Kahn, first officially recognized the importance of a great American historic figure, Roger Williams, and declared Roger Williams Day to be an official ZBT holiday.
		An early English colonist, Williams was the founder of the Rhode Island colony and the town of Providence.
		Chapters and Colonies are encouraged to honor Roger Williams, his contributions and his teachings of religious tolerance, freedom of worship, and the separation of church and state.
	www.zbt.org /traditions/RWD.htm (341 words)

	Roger Williams - founder of the Rhode Island Colony
		Thereafter, he participated in the politics of the colony until his death in 1683.
		He is remembered as one of the notable champions of democracy and religious freedom in the colonies.
		Rhode Island Shore Dinner - Chowder and clamcakes from the Ocean State.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Hills/6365/rogtest.html (470 words)

	colony of rhode island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		… original colonies did so, independence from the mother country - Great Britain - was formally declared by the General Assembly of the Colony of Rhode Island.
		… Rhode Island was the first of the British colonies in America to declare its independence on May 4, 1776.
		Researching the Laws of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations Gail I. Winson, Roger Williams University School of Law.
	www.canaryislandersislenos.com /colony-of-rhode-island.html (273 words)

	Colony of Rhode Island
		The charter also allowed the people of Rhode Island to make their own laws and vote for their own governor.
		In the 1700’s Rhode Island and the other colonies were doing so well England wanted a share of their wealth.
		Rhode Island people were so angry about taxes that they burned two English ships.
	orchard.sbschools.net /users/dgurwicz/colonies/rcolony.htm (378 words)

	palazzolo v rhode island
		The town of Westerly is on an edge of the Rhode Island coastline.
		The Rhode Island Supreme Court concluded that, because the wetlands regulations predated petitioner’s acquisition of the property at issue, petitioner lacked reasonable investment-backed expectations and hence lacked a viable takings claim.
		In either event, the judgment of the Rhode Island Supreme Court should be affirmed in its entirety.
	www.sou.edu /polisci/PAVLICH/palazzolo_v_rhode_island.html (6131 words)

	colony of rhode island and other rhode island related information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Rhode Island colony: Colonial America Port If ye would like to moderate the Colonial America Campfire, please drop becket@jollyroger.com a line.
		This is unique to Rhode Island and the only colony to be issued a charter without the consent of the crown.) Under the terms of the charter...
		On 12 June, the general assembly of the Crown Colony of Rhode Island met at the Kent County Courthouse in East Greenwich and created the very first Navy in...
	www.nethorde.com /rhode_island/colony-of-rhode-island.html (328 words)

	National Park Service - Colonials and Patriots (Old State House)
		Designed by Richard Munday, the building was erected in 1739-41 to house the General Assembly of the Colony of Rhode Island, and it served also as a center for public meetings and religious and social functions.
		The death of George II, the succession of George III, and the colony's acceptance of the Declaration of Independence were among the momentous events proclaimed from the second-floor balcony.
		The May sessions of the Rhode Island Legislature were held in the Old State House from 1790 until the dedication of the new State House in Providence in 1900.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/colonials-patriots/sitec46.htm (303 words)

	Ancestors from New England and Europe - pafg97 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		James Badcock +-1759 [Parents] was born in 1663 in Westerly,Rhode Island Colony.
		Mary Badcock +-1761 [Parents] was born in 1667 in Westerly,Rhode Island Colony,RI.
		Joseph Badcock +-1767 [Parents] was born in 1681 in Westerly,Rhode Island Colony,RI.
	www.angelfire.com /fl/Sumter/pafg97.htm (434 words)

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