An Account of the English Homes of Three Early Proprietors of Providence
An Account of the English Homes of Three Early Proprietors of Providence
Fred Augustus From Old Catalog Arnold
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The Rev. Charles T. Brooks, in his "Old Stone Mill at New- port, " suggests still another birthplace for the Arnolds, namely, Leamington, Warwickshire. This pamphlet was published at Newport, by Charles E. Hammett, Jr. , in 185 1. It is an ac- count of a controversy between certain "Antiquarians" at Brown University, Providence, and "one of the oldest inhabi- tants of Newport, " as to whether the old mill was built by the Northmen, or by Gov. Arnold, and has been commonly called the Mill Hoax. ...Both sides of this controversy accuse the other of filling their communications "with fabulous stories, founded on deceptions, entirely without foundation. " These accusations were true, and about the only truth in the pam- phlet. Mr. Brooks only suggests that Gov. Arnold may have seen mills of this kind in his youth, as he was living in Eng- land at the precise period with Inigo Jones who designed the "Leamington Mill, " and again page 84, he says, "The Chester- ton Mill is only 5 miles from Leamington in the west of Eng- land from which part we have ascertained the Arnold's came.
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