Picturesque Block Island, R. I

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Many farmers here keep their stock out of doors all the time, except in very hard storms.
-^^BpitGn^G ©f IB1©g1\ Island §is"t©PY-"^'" NDIAN name of the Island, Manisses, meaning " The Little God." Inhabited b}- a tribe of the Narragansctt Indians. The Island was originall)- heavil)- wooded, co\ered with forests of oak, hickor)", elm, ash, cedar and pine.
1524. Island first mentioned by Verrazzano, a Florentine explorer, who reported to his sovereign, Francis I. of F" ranee, "that it was full of
... hills, covered with trees and well peopled." 1614. Adrian Blok, a Dutch e.xplorer, gave his name to the Island.
1636. John Oldham, a trader from Boston, was murdered by Indians, supposed to be Block Island Indians, therefore Gov. Vane of the Massachusetts colony sent Capt. John Endicott with a companj- of sol- diers to punish them. They were subjugated, their wigwams burned, and large stores of corn destroyed on what is now called the Neck.
1637. Miantinomo, the Narragansett, acknowledges the transfer of the Island by right of conquest.


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