Historical Addresses Poem And Other Exercises At the Celebration of the Two Hu
Historical Addresses Poem And Other Exercises At the Celebration of the Two Hu
Thomas Williams Bicknell
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" If fairly fol- lowed these bounds would have left "Antient Reho- 100 250th anniversary of rehoboth. both" with Dighton, Freetown and Fall River almost wholly to Rhode Island ; possibly it was the King's intent, (or more probably, Vane's intent) so to do, as a sort of left-handed compliment or sinister reminder to the more Puritan Colonies, which had taboed him. Be this as it may, these charter bounds were so manifestly in violation of the earlier Plymouth grant, that that colony stoutly resis...ted them, with the support and aid of Massachusetts, for more than eighty years. But the Kingly prerogative was popular in England and the people of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations steadfastly leaned upon it, until the Royal Commissioners as stated in 1746-7 ran the compromise line, dividing the debatable ground between them . Rhode Island small as she is to-day, is thus seen to have been much smaller in her beginnings, and may fairly be said to have been wrenched out from between Con- necticut and Massachusetts, providentially, in connection with *'Antient Rehoboth" for the purpose of establishing Christian freedom in America, and like a diamond between an upper and nether mill-stone, she has impressed her character upon her surroundings, and brightened with the grind.
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