Rhode Island: Three Centuries of Democracy

This is a current work in progress. As there are four volumes of material, it will take some time getting through. Volumes 1-2 provide the history of Rhode Island state, while the third volume provides biographies of Rhode Island citizens at the time the book was published (1932.)

Volume 1

1. Narragansett Bay
2. Early Visitors To Rhode Island
3. Early Rhode Island Settlers
   • Roger Williams Settles
   • Anne Hutchinson at Pocasset
   • Newport Settled
   • Samuel Gorton
   • Later Settlers
4. Rhode Island Relations with the Indians
   • The Rhode Island Indian Tribes
   • The Pequot War
   • Death of Miantonomah
   • Puritan Meddling
   • King Philip’s War
   • Disintegration of Narragansetts
5. Rhode Island’s Relations With Massachusetts And Connecticut
   1. The Irrepressible Conflict
   2. Enduring Vindictiveness
   3. Rhode Islanders Maltreated
   4. A Glorious Page in Rhode Island History
   5. Hanging of Mary Dyer
   6. Armed Invasion of Rhode Island
   7. The Parliamentary Patent
   8. Boundary Disputes With Connecticut
   9. Traitors Within
   10. Andros Intervenes
   11. Boundary Disputes With Massachusetts and Plymouth
   12. Twentieth Century Boundary Problems
6. Organizing A Democracy
   • The Lively Experiment at Providence
   • The Providence Compact
   • The Source of Authority
   • The Government at Aquidneck
   • The Exodus to Newport
   • Reunion of Newport and Portsmouth
   • Union Under Parliamentary Patent
   • The Bogus Narragansett Patent
   • Thorough Organization in 1647
   • Weakness of Confederacy
   • Referendum Replaces Initiative
   • The Wreck of the Confederacy
   • Coddington Usurpation
   • Revival of Confederacy
   • Restoration in England and Effect in Rhode Island
   • The Charter of 1663
   • Reorganization Under Charter
   • Election Machinery
   • Development of Bicameral Assembly
   • A Royal Commission Visited Rhode Island
   • Financial Problems
   • Discord in Providence
   • Popular Government in Practice
   • A Summary

Volume 2

Volume 3

1. Adams, William Leroy
2. Allen, Howard Vernon
3. Anthony, Hugo R. A.
4. Archambault, Alberic A.
5. Bacheller, George W.
6. Ball, Claude Cuthbert
7. Battye, William
8. Beauregard, Louis A.
9. Bixby, Edward C
10. Bliss, George Newman
11. Bliss, William Carpenter
12. Blumer, George Alder
13. Boehr, Joseph, C. S. Sp., Rev.
14. Brierley, Joseph H.
15. Brown, Frank E.
16. Burke, Edward Martin
17. Callan, Luke H.
18. Callender, Walter Reid
19. Callery, Charles E.
20. Carpenter, Francis Wood
21. Carpenter, Jesse A.
22. Carr, Leander K.
23. Carroll, Charles
24. Carroll, George W.
25. Case, Norman Stanley
26. Caswell, W. Herbert
27. Caswell, William Gardiner
28. Chatterton, Roland Henry
29. Clark, Edward Strong
30. Clark, George Clarence
31. Clifford, Sidney
32. Coggeshall, Daniel W.
33. Colt, LeBaron Bradford
34. Connolly, James Greenan
35. Cook, Charles Nourse
36. Cooney, Thomas Francis
37. Corliss, George H.
38. Cottrell, Arthur Maxson
39. Cottrell, Calvert Byron, Jr.
40. Cottrell, Charles Perkins
41. Cottrell, Edgar Henry
42. Cranston, Ellis A.
43. Cross, Harry Parsons
44. Cushing, Arthur
45. Davis, Frank Fenner
46. De Blois Harvey, Sydney
47. Dellarole, Dominic Rev
48. Dexter, Roscoe M.
49. Dixon, Ezra
50. Dixon, Ezra, Jr.
51. Dooley, Michael F.
52. Drake, Herbert Elmer
53. Dunlop, Charles Denison
54. Dunlop, Edwin Gerald
55. Dunn, Louis Ward
56. Dunne, James Edward
57. Earle, G. Kenneth
58. Eaton, Reuben Bartlett
59. Eldred, John B.
60. Emerson, Robert Stephen
61. Evans, Thomas
62. Evers, Henry A.
63. Faunce, William Herbert Perry
64. Flanders, Kenneth A.
65. Ford, Albert Frederick
66. Foster, Edwin Bragg
67. Foster, William Eaton
68. Francis, E. Charles
69. Fullerton, Francis Neil
70. Gallup, Clarence Mason
71. Gardiner, Arthur L.
72. Gillies, Duncan W.
73. Gillies, Roderick
74. Gilman, Hector A.
75. Goddard, Robert Hale Ives
76. Goff, Ira Nathan
77. Goldrick, Thomas D.
78. Gough, James F.
79. Gourley, Hugh J.
80. Greenough, William Bates
81. Gross, Harold Judson, Col.
82. Haffenreffer, Rudolf Frederick
83. Handy, Russell H.
84. Handy, Thomas Henry
85. Harrop, Thomas E.
86. Hathaway, George W.
87. Hazard, Lauriston Hartwell
88. Hazard, Rowland
89. Hazard, Thomas G.
90. Hazard, Thomas Pierrepont
91. Hebert, Felix
92. Hickey, William Augustine, Rt. Rev.
93. Higney, Edward A Rev
94. Hill, Edwin B.
95. Hinchliffe, William
96. Hogan, Edward T.
97. Holbrook, John Swift
98. Holley, Leonard Stanley
99. Horton, Everett J.
100. Horovitz, Harry
101. Hough, M. Leslie
102. Hudson, Samuel E.
103. Hurley, George
104. Hurley, James Henry
105. Jackvony, Louis V.
106. Jastram, Pardon Sheldon
107. Johnson, Oscar W.
108. Jones, Nathan H.
109. Kendall, Nathan E.
110. Kenyon, Grafton I.
111. Keyes, Charles H.
112. Kilton, Walter A.
113. Kimball, Horace Arnold
114. Knight, Webster
115. La Fond, William E.
116. Lacross, Thomas A.
117. Lamb, Frank P.
118. Lee, Thomas Zanslaur
119. Letts, Ira Lloyd
120. Lippitt, Charles Warren, Gov.
121. Lull, Herbert Warren
122. Lynch, Raymond U.
123. Main, William I.
124. Mackenzie, Neil D.
125. McBee, William Bohun
126. McCarthy, James M.
127. McLaughlin, John
128. McManus, James O.
129. McVay, William
130. Merriman, Alfred M.
131. Moore, Harold Q.
132. Morlock, Hermann Frederick Conrad
133. Munro, Wilfred Harold
134. Murray, James V.
135. Newell, William A.
136. Newman, Howard Russell
137. Nolan, Frank Floyd
138. O’Connor, David
139. Paquin, J. Hector
140. Park, George W.
141. Pearson, Fred
142. Peck, William T.
143. Peckham, Fenner Harris
144. Peckham, Harold A.
145. Peckham, William A.
146. Perry, Arthur L.
147. Phelan, J Rev W
148. Plant, Albert Reid
149. Pope, William Henry
150. Potter, Benjamin Dyer
151. Pratt, Joseph
152. Preston, Julius Hervey
153. Preston, Walter Lane
154. Quinn, Patrick Henry
155. Ranger, Walter Eugene
156. Rathom, John Revelstoke
157. Rixford, Frank A.
158. Robinson, B. Frank
159. Robinson, Samuel R.
160. Rockwell, Charles Bristed, Jr.
161. Rounds, Frederic W.
162. Rozpad, Walter J Rev
163. Rueckert, Frederick
164. Schwab, Henry
165. Senerchia, Vincenzo R
166. Shannon, Walter E.
167. Sharpe, Henry D.
168. Shepard, James Ira
169. Sherman, Edward A.
170. Simmons, Richard John
171. Sisson, Harry Franklin
172. Smith, Scott A.
173. Smith, Joseph V.
174. Solomon, Winfield Scott
175. Sprague, Ernest LeGrand
176. Steinert, Albert M.
177. Steinert, Morris
178. Stender, Frank C.
179. Sullivan, Edward M.
180. Sullivan, Jeremiah A.
181. Sullivan, John F.
182. Sullivan, Mortimer Aloysius
183. Sweeney, Joseph Cleveland
184. Thornley, William Henry
185. Tillinghast, Frank W.
186. Tirocchi, F A Rev
187. Troy, George F.
188. Tucker, Stephen Robertson
189. Tufts, Elmer E., Jr.
190. Vaughan, Frank Leslie
191. Walker, P. Franci, M. D.
192. Watson, John Jay, Jr.
193. Westcott, William Babbitt
194. Whipple, Clifford
195. Wilcox, Erroll K.
196. Wilk, Francis J., Rev.
197. Woods, John Carter Brown
198. Zunlinden, Albert

Volume 4

Carroll, Charles. Rhode Island: Three Centuries of Democracy, 4 vol. New York: Lewis historical Pub. Co., 1932.