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   Some Books covering Rhode Island genealogy currently being published

   Newport County Genealogy Books from which you may Request a Lookup

   Rhode Island Reading Room. Genealogy and History Articles.

   The Newport Chapter, Rhode Island Reading Room. Genealogy & History Articles

• Newport School Report: 1869-1870  Scanned Partly Transcribed
• Newport School Report: 1877-1878  Scanned Partly Transcribed
• Newport School Report: 1884-1885  Scanned Partly Transcribed
• Newport Grammar Graduation for 1915 Scanned Transcribed
• Newport Grammar Graduation for 1916, including one class picture Scanned Transcribed
• Newport Grammar Graduation for 1917 Scanned Transcribed
• Little Compton District 4 students and teacher (some time between 1905 & 1912) Scanned
• St. Mary's Basketball Team, 1914-1915  Scanned 
• Rogers High School Picture of 1919 Class Members Scanned
• Rogers High School, Basketball Team 1916-17, Graduation 1921, Scanned Transcribed
• Aquidneck Athletic Club Basketball Team, 1917-1918, Scanned
• School Picture taken in Newport in the early 1900's Scanned

• 1891 Tax List and City Officers for the City of Newport  Scanned Transcribed
• 1855 Tax List of the City of Newport  Scanned
  
• 1921 Tax List of the Town of Jamestown, R. I. Scanned Transcribed
• 1882 Tax Book of the Town of Tiverton, R. I.  Scanned
• 1890 Tax Book of the Town of Tiverton, R. I.  Scanned
• 1897 Tax Book of the Town of Tiverton, R. I.  Scanned
• Tax Books: Town of Portsmouth for 1877, 1880, 1883, 1887, 1892, 1895, 1900 Scanned and Partly Transcribed

• Documentary History of Rhode Island: Portions on Early Aquidneck  Scanned
• Important Events listed in Newport Mercury Almanacs: | 1897 | 1901 | 1903 | 1904 |  Scanned and Partly Transcribed
• 1919 Newport City Manual Scanned
• 1858 Newport Directory Scanned
• 1918 Jamestown and New Shoreham Directory Scanned
• Almanac for the Year 1898, including Newport events for 1897 Scanned Partly Transcribed
• Almanac for the Year 1894, including Newport events for 1893 Scanned Partly Transcribed
• Municipal Year Book of the Town of Middletown 1909-1910 Scanned Partly Transcribed
• History of Brenton's Neck, From 1638 Scanned
• William Almy of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, 1630 Scanned with Index Transcribed
• Old Home Week, Newport, and 1905 Program with lots of advertisements Scanned
• Naval Torpedo Station Monument - Dedicated to those who died, Photograph Transcribed
• 1916 Programs, 2nd Baptist Church, Newport, RI Scanned Partly Transcribed
• Newport Chapter No. 2 Royal Arch Masons Roster 1918 Scanned

• Newport Schools, and School Committees, 1856
• The Old Stone Mill, Newport, RI
• The Oldest Town Records in the State: Portsmouth
• Full index to the 1856 Newport Directory
• Newport Mercury, October 11, 1834
• Moses Grinnell Convicted of the Murder, Nov. 9, 1880
• Newport Mercury, May 20, 1882
• Selections from the first edition of the Newport Daily News
• 1912 Officers and Members of the Newport Historical Society
•  A picture of the plaque of the 1638 Portsmouth Compact Memorial in Founders Park, Portsmouth taken in May of 1997 by Elliot J. Wilcox
• Images of the original Portsmouth Compact and information on it's creation
• The Story of the Old Friends' Meeting House

• Crawford Carter Allen descendant of John Carter, editor of "The Providence Gazette" for more than 45 years
•  William Almy of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, 1630 Scanned with Index Transcribed
• Some Carr Biographies
• Edward Payson Chase Genealogy and Journals
• Trial of Thomas Cornell for the murder of his mother, Rebeca Cornell
• Letter from George Cozzins to his wife Mary, 1845
• Bible entries of Leonard Cozzens and descendants
• A Transcript of a Bible Belonging to Allen Davoll of Little Compton
• Gray Family of Tiverton
• The John Howland Family, Mayflower passenger
• The Lillibridge Family in the United States
• The Peckham Family, from England to Newport
• A Diary of Frank Clement Rice, Azores – 1918 in the Navy
• Sherman, Cary and Allen connections to the Howland family
• The descendants of Thomas Sherman, of Diss and Yaxley; England
• The descendants of Hon. Philip Sherman, immigrant to New England
• Gertrude Elma Mann-Stirmon, Murdered by her husband Roy Stirmon
• The Tilley Family, Mayflower passenger, and Howland connections
• John Wood of Portsmouth, And Some Clarifications About This Line
• 4 Sep 03 article "Ancestry of John Wood 'Mariner"

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   Streets and Courts of Newport in 1856

   1873 Article from Harper's Weekly on Newport, RI with a panoramic city sketch Scanned

   Newport County Genealogy links

   The 1670 Grand Deed of the area that became Tiverton, signed by "Josiah Winslow
          Esq. Gov.r of the colony of new plymouth Major William Bradford Treasurer."

  Rhode Island Towns with County Locations

    A Brief History of Rhode Island with Timeline and List of Governors

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