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1st John Coggeshall of Newport; 21 May 1647 - 27 November 1647 (died in office) 2nd Jeremy Clarke of Newport; 16 May 1648 - 22 May 1649. 3rd John Smith of Providence; 22 May 1649 - 23 May 1650.
Under this instrument, Arnold became the first governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, with William Brenton as his Deputy. [28] [27] The Court of Commissioners was replaced with a legislature of ten Assistants and a House of Deputies, with six from Newport and four each from Providence, Portsmouth, and Warwick. [29]
The current governor is Dan McKee. Governors. Rhode Island was one of the original Thirteen Colonies and was admitted as a state on May 29, 1790. [2] . Before it declared its independence, Rhode Island was a colony of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
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May 7, 2024 · The Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations was an English colony in North America that became one of the 13 Original Colonies that voted to declare independence from Great Britain on July 2, 1776. It played an important role in the American Revolution. In fact, it was the first colony to separate from Great Britain.
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Oct 29, 2009 · Roger Williams and his followers settled on Narragansett Bay, where they purchased land from the Narragansett Indians and established a new colony governed by the principles of religious liberty...
Aug 2, 2020 · In 1774, Rhode Island sent two men to the First Continental Congress: former governor and then-chief justice of the Supreme Court Stephen Hopkins and former governor Samuel Ward. Hopkins and William Ellery, an attorney who replaced the deceased Samuel Ward, signed the Declaration of Independence for Rhode Island.
William Coddington (born 1601, Boston, Lincolnshire, Eng.—died Nov. 1, 1678, Rhode Island [U.S.]) was a colonial governor and religious dissident who founded Newport, Rhode Island, in 1639. Coddington, an assistant in the Massachusetts Bay Company, migrated to the New England colony in 1630.
