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The Life and Times of Samuel Gorton: The Founders and the Founding of the Republic, a Section of Early United States History and a History of the Colony of Providence and Rhode Island Plantations in the Narragansett Indian Country, Now the State of Rhode Island, 1592-1636-1677-1687.

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One of the important figures in the early years of the R.I. colony, Gorton was also one of the first settlers of Warwick. Includes letter from the author to Clarence S. Bingham, dated 18 Oct. 1907; letter explains author's attempt to write an expanded book that includes a record of Gorton's descendants, and that it was necessary to modify the title page by crossing off the phrase "with a genealogy of Samuel Gorton's descendants to the present time." Includes bibliographical references.

Author and Contributors
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Gorton, Adelos.

Date Published

1907

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http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/scd0001.00141111437

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Coddington, William, 1601-1678. | Gorton, Samuel, 1592 or 3-1677. | Narragansett Indians -- History

Publisher

G.S. Ferguson Co., printers

Place Of Publication

Philadelphia

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Rhode Island Historical Society

Physical Description
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154p.

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http://rihs.minisisinc.com/rihs/scripts/mwimain.dll/144/RIHS_M2L/LINK/SISN+21201?SESSIONSEARCH

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Gorton, Adelos, b. 1848. The life and times of Samuel Gorton : the founders and the founding of the republic, a section of early United States history and a history of the colony of Providence and Rhode Island Plantations in the Narragansett Indian country, now the state of Rhode Island, 1592-1636-1677-1687 / compiled from various accounts, histories, letters, and published and unpublished records, by Adelos Gorton. Philadelphia: G.S. Ferguson Co., printers, 1907.

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