Providence in colonial times . g into a trough for con-ducting the water into a tub formed of a half-hogs-head set in the ground conveniently for cattle to drinktherefrom. Thence the water continued its courseto the river adjacent; so that in passing the outlet ina boat the stream was manifest. . This descrip-tion was written in 1880, at the age of eighty-five, bythe Honorable Zachariah Allen, one of Providencesmost honored citizens, whose fathers residence waswithin one hundred yards of the spring in question. Roger Williams had already established with theIndians that friendship and influenc
Providence in colonial times . g into a trough for con-ducting the water into a tub formed of a half-hogs-head set in the ground conveniently for cattle to drinktherefrom. Thence the water continued its courseto the river adjacent; so that in passing the outlet ina boat the stream was manifest. . This descrip-tion was written in 1880, at the age of eighty-five, bythe Honorable Zachariah Allen, one of Providencesmost honored citizens, whose fathers residence waswithin one hundred yards of the spring in question. Roger Williams had already established with theIndians that friendship and influence which placedthe little plantation on a footing of security and per-manence. While he lived in Salem and Plymouth,he spared no cost towards them ... in Gifts, to-kens and presents . . and therefore when I came Iwas welcome to . . Canonicus, who was most shy Picture of Slate Rock and Seekonk River From a water-color sketch painted by Edward L. Peck-ham in 1832, now in the Rhode Island Historical Society. ? iioJisiH 1. ^Planter and Plantation 19 of all English to his last breath. Lands on the Mo-shassucand Wanasquatucket Rivers were readily ob-tained from the Narraganset sachems. The deed ofconveyance, signed by them two years later, on March24, 1638, recites that in consideration of many kind-nesses and services he [Roger Williams] hath continu-ally done for us ... we do freely give him all theland from those rivers, reaching to Pawtuxet river;as also the Grass and meadows upon the said Paw-tuxet river. This last-mentioned tract was an addi-tion to the original grant. The lands thus designated comprised a territory ofabout four square miles. It included the peninsulaformed by the Seekonk and Moshassuc Rivers,whereon the East Side of the present city stands, asfar north as the Rivers and Fields of Seekonk lies to the east, and the Moshassuc tothe west, of this peninsula, and both empty into Provi-dence Harbor at a distance from each other of abouta mile. To the wes
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