Between Land and Sea

Between Land and Sea
Author: Christopher L. Pastore
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2014-10-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674281411

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Christopher Pastore traces how Narragansett Bay’s ecology shaped the contours of European habitation, trade, and resource use, and how littoral settlers in turn, over two centuries, transformed a marshy fractal of water and earth into a clearly defined coastline, which proved less able to absorb the blows of human initiative and natural variation.

Rhode Island Roots

Rhode Island Roots
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 454
Release: 2009
Genre: Registers of births, etc
ISBN:

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Elder John Gorton and the Six Principle Baptist Church of East Greenwich, Rhode Island

Elder John Gorton and the Six Principle Baptist Church of East Greenwich, Rhode Island
Author: Cherry Fletcher Bamberg
Publisher:
Total Pages: 642
Release: 2001
Genre: Reference
ISBN:

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Record of sermons, records of members, marriages performed and miscellaneous church records kept by John Gorton in East Greenwich and Warwick, Rhode Island. Includes brief genealogy of John Gorton's family. John Gorton was born 22 April 1723. His parents were Samuel Gorton and Elizabeth Greene. He married Rhoda Bowen (1726-1781), daughter of Daniel Bowen and Priscilla Vinton, in 1746 in Scituate, Massachusetts. They had nine children.

The Tillinghasts in America

The Tillinghasts in America
Author: Wayne G. Tillinghast
Publisher:
Total Pages: 800
Release: 2006
Genre: Reference
ISBN:

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Pardon Tillinghast, son of Pardon Tillinghast and Sarah Browne, was born in about 1622 in Severn Cliffs, Sussex, England. He married (Sarah?) Butterworth and they had three children. He married Lydia Taber and they had nine children. He died 29 January 1717/18 in Providence, Rhode Island. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Rhode Island and New York.