Samuell Gorton: A Forgotten Founder of our Liberties; First Settler of Warwick, R. I.Janes, Lewis G. (Lewis George)
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Samuell Gorton: A Forgotten Founder of our Liberties; First Settler of Warwick, R. I.
Janes, Lewis G. (Lewis George)
Gorton, Samuel, 1592 or 1593-1677; Rhode Island -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Warwick (R.I.)
The eldest daughter, Mary, married, i. Peter Greene; ii. John Sanford;
the youngest, Elizabeth, married John Crandall; Sarah married William
Mace; Ann’s husband was John Warner; Susanna’s was Benjamin Barton.
From these marriages have sprung many well known Rhode Island
families.
Footnote 83:
The Colonial Assembly of 1647 provided “that the seale of the Province
shall be an anchor.”
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND INDEX
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The following books, articles and manuscripts have been consulted in the
preparation of this paper:
1. SIMPLICITIES DEFENCE AGAINST SEVEN-HEADED POLICIE. By Samuell Gorton.
Original Edition, London, Aug. 3, 1646. Second edition, 1647.
Reprinted in Vol. III of R. I. Historical Collections, with
introduction and notes by Judge W. R. Staples.
2. AN INCORRUPTIBLE KEY COMPOSED OF THE CX PSALME, WHEREWITH YOU MAY
OPEN THE REST OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES. By Samuell Gorton. London.
3. SALTMARSH RETURNED FROM THE DEAD, in _Amicus Philalethes_; or the
Resurrection of James the Apostle out of the Grave of Carnall Glosses,
for the Correction of the Universall Apostasy which cruelly buryed him
who yet liveth. By Samuell Gorton. London Edition.
4. AN ANTEDOTE AGAINST THE COMMON PLAGUE OF THE WORLD. * * SMARTLASH
ASCENDED TO THE THRONE OF EQUITY, FOR THE ARRAGNMENTS OF FALSE
INTERPRETATIONS OF THE WORD OF GOD. By Samuell Gorton. London Edition.
(Dedicated to “His Highness, Oliver, Lord Protector of England,
Scotland and Ireland, with the dominions thereto belonging.”)
5. A RUNNING COMMENTARY ON THE LORD’S PRAYER (Matt. vi, 9-13). By
Samuell Gorton. (_Mss._ in Library of the R. I. Historical Society, at
Providence).
6. CERTAIN LETTERS WHICH PASSED BETWEEN THE PENMAN OF THIS TREATISE AND
CERTAIN MEN NEWLY COME OUT OF OLD ENGLAND INTO NEW. By Samuell Gorton.
(London Edition).
7. LETTERS TO NATHANIEL MORTON AND OTHERS. By Samuell Gorton. (Some of
these letters are in the possession of Mr. Edward Crowninshield, of
Boston).
8. LIFE OF SAMUEL GORTON. By John M. Mackie. (Sparks’s American
Biography).
9. A DEFENCE OF SAMUEL GORTON AND THE SETTLERS OF SHAWOMET. By George A.
Brayton. Late Justice of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island (R. I.
Historical Tracts, No. 17.—Sidney S. Rider).
10. HISTORICAL DISCOURSE—Calendar.
11. RHODE ISLAND COLONIAL RECORDS.
12. MASSACHUSETTS COLONIAL RECORDS.
13. RECORDS OF PLYMOUTH COLONY.
14. TOWN RECORDS OF PORTSMOUTH.
15. TOWN RECORDS OF PROVIDENCE.
16. TOWN RECORDS OF WARWICK. (Unpublished).
17. HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF WARWICK. By Orris Payson Fuller, B. A.
18. NARRAGANSETT HISTORICAL REGISTER.
19. HISTORY OF THE NARRAGANSETT CHURCH. Updike.
20. HISTORY OF NEW ENGLAND. By J. G. Palfrey.
21. HISTORY OF RHODE ISLAND. By Samuel G. Arnold.
22. A SHORT HISTORY OF RHODE ISLAND. By George Washington Greene.
23. THE BEGINNINGS OF NEW ENGLAND. By John Fiske, LL. D.
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