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Samuell Gorton: A Forgotten Founder of our Liberties; First Settler of Warwick, R. I.

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By Lewis G. Janes
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A concise biographical study examines Samuell Gorton as a controversial yet influential early settler whose disputes over religion, land, and governance with neighboring colonies resulted in banishments, armed confrontation, and eventual establishment of a Warwick settlement. The author reappraises Gorton’s character and public actions, describing his defiant defense against Massachusetts forces, his collaboration with fellow settlers, and his later civic service, while situating the narrative in local landscape, archival records, and the broader theme of soul liberty in colonial New England.

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Title: Samuell Gorton: A Forgotten Founder of our Liberties; First Settler of Warwick, R. I.

Author: Lewis G. Janes

Release date: July 14, 2016 [eBook #52573]
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Language: English

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SAMUELL GORTON

The Rhode Island Series.

1. Mary Dyer of Rhode Island, the Quaker Martyr that was hanged on Boston Common June 1, 1660. By Judge Horatio Rogers.

2. A Summer Visit of Three Rhode Islanders to the Massachusetts Bay in 1651: its innocent purpose and its painful consequences. By Henry Melville King.

3. Samuell Gorton: a forgotten founder of our liberties; first settler of Warwick. By Lewis G. Janes.

IN PREPARATION:

4. Thomas Olney, Junior, Town Clerk. By Edward Field.

Uniform, 12mo., cloth, $1.00 net each.
SAMUELL GORTON:
A FORGOTTEN FOUNDER OF OUR LIBERTIES
FIRST SETTLER OF WARWICK, R. I.
BY
LEWIS G. JANES
Author of “A Study of Primitive Christianity,”
etc.

“More ideas which have become National, have emanated from the little Colony of Rhode Island, than from all the other American States.”—George Bancroft, in Address before the New York Historical Society.

PROVIDENCE
PRESTON AND ROUNDS
1896
Copyright, 1896
BY
PRESTON AND ROUNDS
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
PRESS OF
E. L. FREEMAN & SONS, PROVIDENCE, R. I.