4. Original letters, and documents, and papers illustrating any of these subjects, particularly those which shew the private habits, manners or pursuits of our ancestors, or are connected with the general history of this State. 5. Sermons, orations, occasional discourses and addresses, books, pamphlets, almanacs and newspapers, printed in this State; and manuscripts, especially those written by persons born or residing in this State. 6. Accounts of the Indian tribes which formerly inhabited any part of this State, their numbers and condition when first visited by the whites, their general character and peculiar customs and manners, their wars and treaties and their original grants to our ancestors. 7. The Indian names of the towns, rivers, islands, bays and other remarkable places within this State, and the traditional import of those names. 8. Besides these, the society will receive donations of any other books, pamphlets, manuscripts and printed documents; with which any gentleman may please to favor them. [Illustration: (Decorative separator)] OFFICERS OF THE RHODE-ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY, ELECTED JULY 19, 1826. His Excellency _James Fenner_, Esq. President. _Henry Bull_, Esq. 1st. Vice-Pres. Hon. _Theodore Foster_, Esq. 2d Vice Pres. _William R. Staples_, Esq. Sec’ry. _John Howland_, Esq. Treasurer. _Albert G. Greene_, Esq. Cabinet Keeper of the Northern District. _Stephen Gould_, Cabinet Keeper of the Southern District. Hon. Job Durfee, John B. Francis, John Pitman, Richard W. Greene, Philip Crapo, William E. Richmond, Christopher E. Robbins, Nathaniel Bullock, Hon. Tristam Burges, Hon. William Hunter, Esq’s. Rev. David Benedict, and William G. Goddard, Esq. _Trustees_. _Publishing Committee._ John Howland, William G. Goddard and William R. Staples, elected by the Trustees Feb. 7, 1827. SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF ROGER WILLIAMS.