. Narragansett Bay, its historic and romantic associations and picturesque setting . g ago it became what it is to-day, a charming but isolated spot, with considerablereminiscent interest. It is a place for an artist or poetto dream in ; its old houses and quiet streets are full ofwhat the novelists of to-day call local colour, andits houses would many of them well reward the laboursof the curio hunter. Not far north of Wickford, along the line of thetrolley, is a place where we may appropriately close ouritinerary. It is the spot where the first Englishman whobuilt upon the shores of Narragan
. Narragansett Bay, its historic and romantic associations and picturesque setting . g ago it became what it is to-day, a charming but isolated spot, with considerablereminiscent interest. It is a place for an artist or poetto dream in ; its old houses and quiet streets are full ofwhat the novelists of to-day call local colour, andits houses would many of them well reward the laboursof the curio hunter. Not far north of Wickford, along the line of thetrolley, is a place where we may appropriately close ouritinerary. It is the spot where the first Englishman whobuilt upon the shores of Narragansett Bay, erected ablockhouse for trading purposes, in 1639. RichardSmith was not a settler in the sense that Williams,Coddington, or Gorton were. He had no following,took no part in colony building, made no permanent East Greenwich and Wickford 343 impress upon the minds or lives of men of his own orany other time, but he built a house before Roger Wil-liams came to Providence, and popular tradition assertsthat it is yet standing. Smith settled on Point Wharf Cove, and his first. THE BABBITT FARMHOUSE, NEAR WICKFORD. THIS BUILDING IS SAID TO BEAN ENLARGEMENT OF RICHARD SMITHS BLOCKHOUSE neighbour is said to have been Williams, who soon soldout to him his holding, which included Rabbit 1656, Smith leased the land upon which Wickfordwas afterwards built. This territory, extending asfar south as the Annaquatucket River, he soon after 344 Narragansett Bay secured by a thousand-year lease, adding to it anothertract on the north and east, known as Calves various leaseholds finally aggregated twenty-sevensquare miles. The trading-house built by Smith was afterward in-corporated in the building which has borne successivelyamong others the names of Updyke, Congdon, andBabbitt. As the Babbitt farmhouse it is still pointedout to visitors to Wickford. At the time of Philips war tradition tells that aband of settlers, inflamed with the smell of villainoussaltpeter and bl
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