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Churches

Biographical Sketch of the Free Will Baptist Church

- All Members of the Sabbatarian Church (Seventh Day Baptist), Newport, RI, 1671 to 1830

- Old St. Paul's Church in Narragansett Rectors

- Roman Catholic Churches of Pawtucket

- Memorials of Deceased Friends [Quaker] of New-England Yearly Meeting

- Extracts From the Diaries of the Parish Priest, Reverend William Pressey, of St. Johns Church, Ashton

- The History of Warwick: Historical Sketches of the Churches in Warwick

Wars

- War Memorials: photos and lists

- Rhode Island Muster Rolls 1746

- Recollections of the Jersey Prison Ship (Revolutionary War)

- Military Returns and Muster Rolls of the Soldiers of the Revolution

- List of Officers of the Militia belonging to Smithfield; 1775 to 1789

- Rhode Island Slaves Enlisted into Continental Battalions 1778

- Officers, Soldiers and Seamen in Rhode Island Regiments who Lost Their Lives in the Rebellion

- Second Rhode Island Regiment: A Narrative of Military Operations (Civil War Biographies)

- The Seventh Regiment of RI Volunteers in the Civil War (Biographies)

REGISTER of the Seventh Regiment Rhode Island Volunteers by Company:
Field and Staff
Company A
Company B
Company C
Company D
Company E
Company F
Company G
Company H
Company I
Company K
Addenda

- Battery H - First Regiment RI Light Artillery 1861 - 1865

- The History of Warwick: Warwick in the War of the Rebellion [Civil War]

- 1st Rhode Island U.S. Volunteer Infantry, Spanish American War

- Spanish American War Veterans:

Frank LEGGE aka Isaac Francis Thompson LEGGE

- Rhode Island in the Philippine American War

Surname Specific

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Will of Stephen Angell, Sr.
The Ancestors of Thomas Angell of Providence, Rhode Island
The Ancestors of Henry Clay Anthony [Descendants of John Anthony of England]
Anthony and Misc. Biographies from Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island
The Descendants of William Arnold by E. Richardson, Woonsocket
Obituary of Henry William BAGLEY
Wills of John Blackmar and Jemima (Kinney) Blackmar
Descendants of Francis Brayton, including Coggeshall, Luther, Gardner, Wheeler, Anthony, and Wardwell lines.
William Brenton & the Pettequamscutt Purchase, 1740
"By - Gones" by George A. Brooks, Sr. - stories of Potter Hill, RI
Descendants of Rev. Chad Brown through Eight generations. Brown Family Tombstones, North Burial Ground
Descendants of William Bailey: Seth Brown through Charles Stone Brown
John Carter: Providence Printer and Brown Descendants
Providence and Pawtucket Document Contributions from Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Carter III. Including genealogy of Carter, Whitney, Miller, and Orne.
1740 Deed of Joseph Case
The Ancestors of Amasa Manton Chace [Descendant of William Chase]
Godfrey Champlin to Edward Peckham Champlin
Clemence Family of Rhode Island, the Clemence-Irons House of Johnston, plus photographs of gravestones
John Coggeshall, progenitor of the family in America, and first president of the Colony of Rhode Island, and eight generations through John Welles Coggeshall.
Colt Family graves at Juniper Hill Cemetery, Bristol Historical Cemetery #003
Descendants of Walter Cook or Cooke
Daily, John and Elizabeth (Downam/Downing) of Braintree, Mendon and Providence (pdf file)
DeWolf Family graves at Juniper Hill Cemetery, Bristol Historical Cemetery #003
Farnum Family graves, Smithfield Historical Cemetery #35
Gardiners of Narragansett
Welcome Arnold Greene, descendant of John Greene of Kings Town
Descendants of John Greene, surgeon, immigrant ancestor of the Warwick Greenes
Hon. Charles J. Greene, descendant of John Greene of Kings Town
Arnold Green's lineage: Thomas (2), Samuel, Thomas (3), John, Timothy and Timothy Ruggles Green
Discovery of the Remains of General Nathaniel Greene
The Family History and Story of Samuel Gorton
The History of the Gorton Name
Will & Inventory of Thomas Greene
William Grosvenor of Providence, R. I.
Hall Tombstones: Wallingford, CT
Hall - Pratt - Taylor from 1605
The Descendants of Thomas Harris
The Descendants of Thomas Holbrook of MA to Albert of Providence
Wills of Charles Holden and Katharine (Greene) Holden
Wills of Randall Holden and Bethiah (Waterman) Holden
Captain Nicholas Hopkins, Providence, RI, Ancestors and Descendants
Robert Hale Ives, born in Providence, April 3d, 1837
Thomas Poynton Ives, born at Providence, Rhode Island, January 17th, 1834
Thomas Lillibridge of Newport, R. I., and His Descendants
The story of Mrs. Jeanie Lippitt Weeden, from The Evening Bulletin, January 24, 1904
Wills of Moses Lippitt & Mary (Knowles) Lippitt
Joshua Robert Magoon, husband of Mary Anna Spencer.
Daily Records of Alonzo A. S. Mills, Pascoag, Burrillville, RI
Hon. Barzilla B. Mitchell--The ancestors of the Mitchell family of Block Island
The Descendants of John and Nathaniel Mowry
Owen Soldiers' Monument in Scituate
Pendleton's of Westerly, R. I.; James Monroe, Eugene B., Ellen Fitz
WWI Registration Cards for Ryan, Woonsocket & Vicinity, RI
Will & Inventory of Elizabeth (Arnold) Hawkins Smith
The Spencer family in Rhode Island, comprising the progeny of John Spencer.
The Cranston-Johnston branch of the Spragues Family
The Townsend Family, of which Mrs. Amasa Chace is a member
Wills of Nathan Wade and Deborah (Hawkins) Wade
Samuel Ward, Governor of Rhode Island 1762, 1765-67
Isabella Mein Wardwell's Will, 1940
Wardwell Descendants, from Richard Warren of the Mayflower
History of the Wightman or Whiteman Family - the first in America was Daniel Wightman
Wildbore/Wilbore/Wilbor/Wilbur - Descendants of Samuel Wildbore
Philip Herbert Wilbour, descendant of Samuel Wilbore
Will of Joseph Winsor

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