The Proprietors of Providence And Their Controversies With the Freeholders
The Proprietors of Providence And Their Controversies With the Freeholders
Henry C From Old Catalog Dorr
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Ffoote, who had learned the craft in England, proposed to set up iron works in a region now known to us as Cranston. Wil- liams favored the project, but the local feuds were so bitter *See Richard Scott's letter in Fox's " New England's Firebrand Quenched. " fSee Bartlett's Colonial Records. 56 RHODE ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY. that the townsmen would not join even in this useful work, and the projector departed, it seems, to aid in building up the fortunes of New Jersey. (The Proprietors built ...no vessels for themselves and would not allow any others to pay a price for the timber or to engage in any commercial business. )* As might have been expected, there were but few indications of increasing population. Immigrants were not many, and of those who fixed their abode here not many sought admission as "freemen of the colony. "f Even in these latter days the benignity of men's spirits is little increased by so many adverse circumstances. The con- troversy about the town lands went on, in its only forum, the Town Meeting, and at the only other place of concourse, "the town mill.
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