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- Rhode Island Historical Cemeteries Gravestone Pictures

- Signers of the Declaration of Independence; The Rhode Island Delegation.
  Stephen Hopkins, a native of that part of Providence which is now called Scituate;
  William Ellery was born and lived his life in Newport.

- Government of the State of Rhode Island in 1856, with a list of members.

- "The Printer and the Press", by H. P. Smith, 1902

- American Indian Place Names In Rhode Island: Past & Present

- Twentieth Annual Report of the State Board of Agriculture 1905

- Records of the Colony [or State] of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in New England, 1862.

• Officers to command the several Trained Bands, or Companies of Militia, June 1775
• Amount of Rations, &c., Allowed to the Soldiers, by the Continental Congress
• Assistants and Militia Officers Chosen December 10, 1776
• Travel Permit during Revolutionary War, 1777
• 1770 Rhode Island Government by Town
• A school for Providence, 1770
• Incorporation of the Benevolent Congregational Society, in the town of Providence, 1770
• Authorization to sell "all kinds of spirituous liquors" in Providence, 1770
• Committee appointed by the General Assembly to procure Blankets for the Soldiers
• Acceptance of the Declaration of Independence by Rhode Island General Assembly
• Rhode Island's first Postmasters, Appointed June 1777
• A brief history of the affair of the British revenue schooner Gaspee
• Depositions in the investigation of the burning of the Gaspee; Aaron Briggs, Daniel Vaughan, Deputy Governor Sessions relative to the Deposition of Aaron Briggs, &c.
• Report from the Honorable the Commissioners, appointed by Royal Commission
• Account of the sheep taken from Block Island, 1775, ownership & value
• Account of the stock (sheep, oxen, cows, etc.) taken from Jamestown, 1775
• Bills to be Paid, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, June 1776
• Bills Ordered Paid, State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, October 1777
• List of Invalids resident in the State of Rhode Island, disabled in the service of the United States during the late war, as of the 7th day of June, 1785
• Commissioned Officers from the State of Rhode Island who have been slain or died in the service of the United States up to March, 1786

- Industries and Wealth of the Principal Points in Rhode Island:
Providence, Pawtucket, Central Falls, Woonsocket, Newport, Narragansett Pier, Bristol & Westerly

- The Israelites in Rhode Island

- History of the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations: Biographical

- History of Suffrage in Rhode Island

- A List of Slaves Enlisted in to the Continental Army

- Improved Order of Red Men

- Brief History of the American Brass Band and Orchestra

- The Rhode Island Depreciation Claims List as of January 1, 1797

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RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL REPORT; For Rhode Island Board of Education, 1895

• Rhode Island College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts

  Staff, Calendar, History, Requirements for Admission, Expenses
  Department of Instruction
  Courses of Instruction
  Agricultural College Extension
  Young Men's Christian Association; Military Organization; Students.

  Rhode Island Institute for the Deaf
  Rhode Island School of Design
  State Reform Schools

  Oak Lawn School for Girls
  Sockanossett School for Boys

  State Home and School for Dependent Children

  Appendix: School Officers and Teachers in Public Schools, 1894-1895

• Barrington
• Bristol
• Burrillville
• Charleston
• Coventry
• Cranston
• Cumberland
• East Greenwich
• East Providence
• Exeter
• Foster
• Glocester

• Hopkinton
• Jamestown
• Johnston
• Lincoln
• Little Compton
• Middletown
• Narraganset
• Newport
• New Shoreham
• North Kingstown
• North Providence

• North Smithfield
• Pawtucket
• Portsmouth
• Providence
• Richmond
• Smithfield
• South Kingstown
• Tiverton
• Warren
• Westerly
• West Greenwich
• Woonsocket

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- RI College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts 1905 Catalogue, with a list of students and graduates

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Providence County

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- History of Providence County, Rhode Island, Vol. 1, Edited by Richard M. Bayles. 1891

- History of Providence County, Rhode Island, Vol. 2, Edited by Richard M. Bayles, 1891.

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- 1844 Directory, Providence, RI

- Our Police - A History of the Providence Force: 1889

- An Historical Sketch of The Town of Scituate, R.I. Delivered in Scituate, Rhode Island July 4, 1876, By C. C. Beaman

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Kent & Washington Counties

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History of Washington and Kent Counties, Rhode Island; By: J.R. Cole; W.W. Preston & Co., NY, 1889:

- Town of Richmond Tax Books for 1855, 1872 and 1883

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Block Island

• Lease of Life, Ray T. Sands to Col. Ray Sands 1797
• 1810 Letter To Nancy (Paine) Sands From Her Sister Phebe Ray (Paine) Carruthers
• 1813 Letter To Nancy (Paine) Sands in Care of John Sands, Jurist, Block Island, RI
• 1816 Letter To John Paine, Esq., Block Island, C/O Capt. William Littlefield, Newport, RI
• Captain James Sands, born in 1622
• Captain John Sands, eldest son of James, admitted freeman here in 1709
• Three Named Edward Sands
• Ray Sands, born 5 January 1736
• John Sands, "Cotemporary with the above Col. Ray Sands"
• Mrs. Sarah Sands, wife of Captain James Sands
• Caleb & Nathaniel Littlefield, admitted freemen 1721, to Nicholas Littlefield, b. April 8, 1783
• Letter Regarding Block Island 1830 Census from B. Anthony to John E Sands
• Edward¹ Ball and Some of His Descendants: John Ball², Edward Ball³, Peter Ball⁴,
  Edmund Ball⁵, Nicholas Ball⁶.

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