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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 78. Chapters: Roger Williams, William Arnold, Robert Gray, Anne Hutchinson, William Carpenter, Tobias Saunders, Benedict Arnold, Stukeley Westcott, James Manning, Ann Smith Franklin, Aaron Lopez, James Franklin, Benjamin Church, William Hutchinson, Mary Dyer, Esek Hopkins, Moses Brown, William West, John Brown, Catherine Littlefield Greene, William Greene, Hazard family, William Blaxton, James Mitchell Varnum, John Crandall, Obadiah Holmes, Samuel Ward, Theodore Foster, Christopher Lippitt, Silvester Gardiner, Nicholas Brown, Sr., Mark Antony DeWolfe Howe, Thomas Baylies, Solomon Drowne, Josias Lyndon, William Wanton, List of colonial governors of Rhode Island, Gideon Wanton, Stephen Gano, Peleg Sanford, Peter Harrison, Arthur Fenner, Richard Ward, Chad Brown, John Wanton, Joshua Babcock, Thomas Savage, Caleb Carr, Pardon Tillinghast, David Howell, William Coddington, Jr., Jabez Bowen, Daniel Lyman, Thomas Olney, Philip Sherman, Ninigret, Gideon Olin, Awashonks, Thomas Mumford, John Sanford. Excerpt: William Arnold (24 June 1587 - c. 1676) was one of the founding settlers of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, and with his sons was among the wealthiest people in the colony. He was raised and educated in England where he was the warden of St. Mary's, the parish church of Ilchester in southeastern Somerset. In 1635, along with family and associates, he immigrated to New England, where he initially settled in Hingham in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, but soon relocated to the new settlement of Providence with Roger Williams. He was one of the thirteen original proprietors of Providence, appearing on the deed signed by Roger Williams in 1638, and was one of the twelve founding members of the first Baptist church to be established in America. After living in Providence for about two years, Arnold moved with his famil...
