================+=================+==================================== COUNTIES AND | DATE OF | FROM WHAT TAKEN, ORIGINAL TOWNS. | INCORPORATION. | NAMES, CHANGES OF BOUNDARIES, &C. ----------------+-----------------+------------------------------------ Hopkinton |March 19, 1757 |Taken from Westerly. | | North Kingstown |October 28, 1674 |First settlement, 1641. | | Incorporated in 1674, under the | | name of King's Towne, as the | | seventh town in the Colony. | | Incorporation reaffirmed in 1679. | | Name changed to Rochester June 23, | | 1686. Name restored in 1689; see | | East Greenwich. Kingstown, divided | | into North and South Kingstown, | | February, 1722. The act provided | | that North Kingstown should be the | | oldest town. | | South Kingstown |Feb'y 26, 1722-23|See North Kingstown. Pettiquamscut | | settled January 20, 1657-58. | | Richmond |August 18, 1747 |Taken from Charlestown. | | Westerly |May 14, 1669 |Original name Misquamicut. | | Incorporated in May, 1669, under | | the name of Westerly, as the fifth | | town in the Colony. Name of | | Westerly changed to Haversham, | | June 23, 1686, but soon restored. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE.--In several cases the exact date of the passage of the act of incorporation of towns cannot be ascertained. In such cases the date of the meeting of the General Assembly at which the act was passed is given. Total Population of Rhode Island, FROM 1708 TO 1875.