Samuell Gorton: A Forgotten Founder of our Liberties; First Settler of Warwick, R. I. — John Shaqi
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.)
=Code= of 1647, 60-62
=Cole=, Daniel, marries Mahershallalhashbaz, daughter of Samuell
Gorton, 108
=Colonial= dwellings in Warwick, 8
=Common= Law of England, 76-77, 105
=Conanicus=, 52
=Conimicut= Point.
Samuell Gorton’s Block House on, 12, and _note_.
The siege of, 12, 40-42
=Connecticut= rejects the limitations of citizenship by
church-membership, 80
=Cotton=, John, his alleged heresies, 47-48, and _note_.
=Coventry=, 114
=Coweset=, Gorton’s lands in, deeded to his sons, 72
=Coweset= Bay, 9
=Crandall=, John, marries Elizabeth, daughter of Samuell Gorton, 108,
_note_.
=Cromwell=, Oliver, letter to, concerning the Quakers, 66-67
=Cutshamekin=, 46
=Declaration= of Independence, 105
=East= Greenwich.
Land in owned by Samuell Gorton, 72-73, 114
Benjamin Gorton, one of its first settlers, 73
=Eddy=, Samuel, on Samuell Gorton’s character, 106, _note_.
=Ely=, William D., his studies of the Gorton history, 48, and _note_.
=Emerson=, Ralph Waldo, his philosophy foreshadowed by that of Samuell
Gorton, 92, 106
=Ethical= teachings of Samuell Gorton, 97, 101
=Fiske=, John, LL. D.
His account of Samuell Gorton in “The Beginnings of New England.”, 18
His story of the murder of Miantonomi, 52
On the Gortonoges and Wattaconoges, 57, _note_.
His inadequate estimate of Gorton’s career, 82
=Friends.=
Gorton’s defence of, 66, and _note_ 67
His letters to, 66, _note_.
His theology compared with that of, 93-94
He opposes their doctrine of the “inner light.”, 93
He opposes their doctrine about Government, 94, _note_.
=Gaspee=, burning of, 11
=Gorton=, Adelos, vi, 27, _note_.
=Gorton=, Ann, daughter of Samuell Gorton, 108, _note_.
=Gorton=, Benjamin,
Kills a wolf in Warwick, 1774, 12, _note_.
Inherits estate from his father, Samuell Gorton, 71
Early settler of East Greenwich, 72, 109, 114
=Gorton=, Charles, 111-112
=Gorton=, Dr. David Allyn, 110-111
=Gorton=, Dexter, 112
=Gorton=, Dr. Eliot, 111
=Gorton=, Elizabeth, 108, _note_.
=Gorton=, Rev. James, 110
=Gorton=, John.
Inherits estate from his father, Samuell Gorton, 71
Shares in final division of the Coweset lands, 72
=Gorton=, Mary, eldest daughter of Samuell Gorton, 27, _note_, 108,
_note_.
=Gorton=, Mary Maplett,
Wife of Samuell Gorton, 26, 27 and _note_.
His testimony to her gentle birth, 27
His provision for her in the disposal of his estate, 72
=Gortonoges=, 10, 57, and _note_.
=Gorton=, Othniel, 109
=Gorton=, Parish of, in England, 21
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