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    The Providence Island colony was established in 1630 by English Puritans on Providence Island (now the Colombian Department of San Andrés and Providencia)...
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    The Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations was one of the original Thirteen Colonies established on the east coast of America, bordering the...
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    flights. The island was the site of an English Puritan colony established in 1629 by the Providence Island Company, and was taken by Spain in 1641. Forts and...
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    Providence is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. The county seat of Providence County, it is one of the oldest cities...
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    Plymouth colony. The settlements of Rhode Island (Newport and Portsmouth) were on Rhode Island, also known as Aquidneck Island. Providence Plantations...
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    Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick in order to establish the Providence Island colony on Providence Island in the Caribbean and on the Mosquito Coast of what became...
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    The history of Rhode Island is an overview of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and the state of Rhode Island from pre-colonial times...
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  • by the Providence Island Company Providence Island colony, the English settlement on this island Providence Island, Seychelles in Providence Atoll in...
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    Malaysian federation. Prince Edward Island, now a province of Canada The Providence Island colony Queen Charlotte Islands Réunion, now an overseas department...
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    The Rhode Island Royal Charter provided royal recognition to the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, approved by England's King Charles...
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  • England. Proprietary colony Royal colony Colonial charters in the Thirteen Colonies Somers Isles Company Providence Island colony British America British...
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    Dutch authorizing privateering. The Spanish did not hear of the Providence Island colony until 1635 when they captured some Englishmen in Portobelo, on...
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    New Providence is the most populous island in the Bahamas, containing more than 70% of the total population. On the eastern side of the island is the national...
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    Providence; it was one of the four colonies which merged to form the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, the others being Providence,...
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  • landholders. The Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and Connecticut Colony were given their formal charters and Rhode Island even honored the...
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  • a list of the judges, presidents, and governors of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations from 1638 to 1776. Roger Williams June 1636...
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    first came to San Andrés and later moved to the Providence Island colony on what is now Providencia Island as its mountain terrain provided fresh water resources...
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  • Governor of the Providence Island colony in the western Caribbean sea from 1636 to 1638. The Providence Island colony was an English puritan colony founded in...
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    who founded Providence Plantations, which became the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and later the State of Rhode Island. He was a staunch...
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    dependencies Island of Jamaica Settlement of Belize in British Honduras Mosquito Coast Bay Islands Cayman Islands Old Providence Island Colony Other possessions...
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    The Providence River is a tidal river in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. It flows approximately 8 miles (13 km). There are no dams along the river's length...
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  • collection of lists of early settlers (before 1700) in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Most of the lists are of the earliest inhabitants...
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  • a Councillor of the Providence Island colony and one of the first English abolitionists. Rishworth arrived at Providence Island with Henry Halhead in...
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    The Boston and Providence Railroad was a railroad company in the states of Massachusetts and Rhode Island which connected its namesake cities. It opened...
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  • Providence Island colony from 1629 to 1636, and of Barbados from 1640 to 1650 during the English Civil War. During his terms of office in Providence and...
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    The Rhode Island city of Providence has a nearly 400-year history integral to that of the United States, including significance in the American Revolutionary...
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  • 1770 – College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations relocated to Providence. 1774 - Rhode Island Supreme Court founded. 1775...
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    College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations) and moving it to their family's former estate in Providence. Brown laid the cornerstone...
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  • Thomas Angell (category People from Providence, Rhode Island)
    Plymouth Colony in early 1636, and then joined him in founding the settlement of Providence Plantation in what became the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence...
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  • name Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, the former British colony which became the U.S. state University of Rhode Island Rhode Island Rams...
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