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.)
=Slavery=, Statute against, in 1652, 63-65
=Smith=, Ralph.
Gorton hires a house of in Plymouth, 26
Colleague of Roger Williams, 26
=Soccononocco.=
Signs deed to Shawomet lands, 37, and _note_.
Repudiates his signature, 38
Makes submission to Massachusetts, 38, and _note_.
His revolt one cause of the submission of the Narragansetts to Great
Britain, 52
=Soul= Liberty.
Defence of by Roger Williams and Samuell Gorton, 19
Rhode Island the first Government founded on, 79
Its final triumph in the Nation, 81
=Sources= of information, 17-20
=Squatter= Sovereignty, denied by Samuell Gorton, 75
=Staples=, Hon. William R.
On Samuell Gorton, 18, and _note_, 33, _note_.
On the death of John Wickes, 70
=Sumner=, Charles, 76
=Swedenborg=, Emanuel, his theology compared with that of Samuell
Gorton, 88-90
=Theocracy.=
Of Massachusetts Bay, 25
Of Coddington’s Government, 30
Its contest with Soul Liberty, 78
Its final failure, 81
=Tomanick=, 52
=Transcendentalism.= Samuell Gorton a forerunner of, 92, 106
=Trinitarianism.= Samuell Gorton’s views about, 95-96
=Unknowable.= Samuell Gorton’s doctrine of, 88
=Wampum=, legal tender in Rhode Island, 57, _note_.
=Ward=, Nathaniel.
His exhortation to Richard Carder, 47
His “Simple Cobbler of Agawam.”, 48
=Warner=, John.
Commissioner to convey the submission of the Narragansetts, 52
Marries Ann, daughter of Samuell Gorton, 108, _note_.
=Warwick= Cove, 13, 113
=Warwick=, Earl of.
Grants Patent to Samuell Gorton, 54
Gives Gorton safe conduct through Massachusetts, 55
Massachusetts recognizes his authority, 55, _note_.
=Warwick=, Old and New, 7-16
Beautiful in Summer, 9
Town government organized in, 56-57
Unites with Providence and Aquidneck, 56
Samuell Gorton’s service of, 59-73
=Wattaconoges=, 57, and _note_.
=West= Greenwich, 114
=Wheelwright=, John, his banishment from Massachusetts Bay, 25
=Wickes=, John.
His punishment at Portsmouth, 33, and _note_.
He goes to Providence, 34
Commissioner of the Narragansetts, 52
His supposed death in King Philip’s war, 70-71
His will, 70
=Williams=, Roger, 10, 19, 26, 36, 53, 57, _note_, 63, 77, 78
His residence in Plymouth, 26
His first meeting with Samuell Gorton, 26
His banishment from Massachusetts Bay, 25
His early disagreements with Gorton, 35
His alleged letter to Winthrop of doubtful authenticity, 35, _note_.
He sells his half of Prudence Island, 50, and _note_.
He visits England and secures a Charter, 56
His doctrine of Soul Liberty, 19, 78-81
The first charge against him in Massachusetts, 104, _note_.
His conversion to Gorton’s views of civil government, 77-78, 104
=Winslow=, Edward, his “Hypocrisie Unmasked.”, 28, _note_, 33, _note_,
42, _note_.
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