. The life and times of Samuel Gorton; the founders and the founding of the republic, a section of early United States history and a history of the colony of Providence and Rhode Island plantations in the Narragansett Indian country, now the state of Rhode Island, 1592-1636-1677-1687 .. . ll bemaintained, &c.; also to have somewhat convenient for recreation in 154 PROVIDENCE AND RHODE ISLAND PLANTATIONS. case she desire to visit her friends . in consideration of the prem-ises, to said son Samuel all right to my house and lot in Warwick,with appurtenances; and, further, my right in township of
. The life and times of Samuel Gorton; the founders and the founding of the republic, a section of early United States history and a history of the colony of Providence and Rhode Island plantations in the Narragansett Indian country, now the state of Rhode Island, 1592-1636-1677-1687 .. . ll bemaintained, &c.; also to have somewhat convenient for recreation in 154 PROVIDENCE AND RHODE ISLAND PLANTATIONS. case she desire to visit her friends . in consideration of the prem-ises, to said son Samuel all right to my house and lot in Warwick,with appurtenances; and, further, my right in township of Warwick . .and a patch of marsh which is mine, for maintaining the widow Eliza-beth Moore in her lifetime and for the charges of her decent to son Samuel aforesaid one-third of my right of purchase be-yond township of Warwick, having given other two-thirds to sons Johnand Benjamin. I freely pass over all said lands as specified in the premises unto saidson Samuel as well as the goods, moveables and chattels, and also myLibrary, together with all my deeds and writings. In witness whereof, etc., I have hereunto set my hand and seal this27th day of November, 1677, Warwick. SAMUEL GORTON [L. S.]. Signed and sealed in presence ofJOHN GREENE, THE ONLY HOUSE STANDING IN WARWICK IN 1677 The stone house and fortress, built in 1649, by President John Smith. It, after his death in 1664,passed from his widows family, the Sweets, to Thomas Greene, who occupied it, and whose descend-ants lived in it for many generations, and who were from this styled the Stone Castle Greenes. Thishouse and the house of Samuel Gorton which was built by him during the summer of 1677, were probablythe only completed houses that were in Warwick at the time of Samuel Gortons death, in Decem-ber. 1677. SAMUEL GORTON OF GORTON, ENGLAND \ AND OF WARWICK, RHODE ISLAND \ HIS DESCENDANTS IN AMERICA 1592-1906 BY ADKIvOS GORTON, Member of the New York Genealogical and Biographical
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