. The history of the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. STATE CAPITOL. PROVIDENCEDedicated, 1900. ROGER MOWRY TAVERN, PROVIDENCE CHAPTER NARRAGANSETT COUNTRY. The country known as Narragansett, the home of the tribe bearingthat name, inchided originally all of Rhode Island and Providence Plan-tations, prior to 1747. The original dwellers were the NarragansettIndians, who according to Brinley, numbered at one time 30,000 Niantics, Nipmucs, the Shawomets and Cowesetts, were small sub-ject tribes within this area. Roger Williams tells us that on his firstacquaintan
. The history of the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. STATE CAPITOL. PROVIDENCEDedicated, 1900. ROGER MOWRY TAVERN, PROVIDENCE CHAPTER NARRAGANSETT COUNTRY. The country known as Narragansett, the home of the tribe bearingthat name, inchided originally all of Rhode Island and Providence Plan-tations, prior to 1747. The original dwellers were the NarragansettIndians, who according to Brinley, numbered at one time 30,000 Niantics, Nipmucs, the Shawomets and Cowesetts, were small sub-ject tribes within this area. Roger Williams tells us that on his firstacquaintance with them, about 1632, they could raise five thousandwarriors. At the close of Philips War, the remnant of the tribes continuedto occupy the territory, bordering on the ocean between Weekapaug anothe Pawcatuck River, and the name Narragansett was retained for theterritory now known as Washington county and a portion of Kentcounty. It is our purpose, in this chapter, to write of the white settlers,who succeeded to the ownership and occupation of the southern sectionof these early Indian lands, whose chara
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